This one is not something that came out of the blues! Well, thanks to my Mumma, who had this speech to make, addressing the Ordnance factory Board, Calcuta. Right in the middle of my GMBA (Global-MBA) here at Dubai, I get a (so-to-say) nervous phone call on a sleepy Sunday afternoon from her telling me about the speech! Needless to say, there was an expectation and dependance in her voice "My dear son, can you come up with something on 'Womanhood'? And I want it ASAP. I'll be leaving for Calcutta the day after tomorrow!" Given that Prof. Navneet Tandon from Raqmiyat, a local Consulting firm here had given us enough time for the week to plunge into, and ponder about our personal lives, I decided to take up the challenge!
With a little research on the epics and a bit of googling, this is what I came up with - 'Celebrating Womanhood'. At places, this might sound like a school-boyish essay on 'Women', but I thought it to be worth posting! It does reflect my true feelings to a great extent! I must also give all due credit to the sketcher whose piece I have used here - the anonymous artist from the IT department of SPJCM, Dubai. So friends, this is how it goes...
Sitting under the 'Tree of Life', in is solitude was Maschya, the First Man. Depression, melancholy and misery were all that one could think of, to best describe his state. The modern world had only turned his solitude into oppression and tyranny. Man! Did he dread life to the core! He cursed his existence.
It was now, when kind-hearted Spenta Mainyu, created Maschyani, the first woman, who turned out to become Maschya’s wife, together with whom, he set up the first human household upon earth. Hence, evolved homes! And hence, evolved mankind!
When Spenta Mainyu first made man, he was noted in the heavenly world as a great designer. With the softer and finer clay and with his extraordinary craftsmanship, when he made woman, he was hailed by all as the best – an unparalleled moulder of all times.
Woman is the spectacle of creation. In this world wide web of the seven zones, the ‘Yugas’, she is still unequalled and unmatched in form and beauty. Breathing fragrance all around, she is the blossoming flower in the gardens of life.
Woman is she who teaches man refinement. In ethical elevation, it is her who helps man grow. If there is a sole sustaining power of the man’s life, it is her. It’s the woman, who showers man with manhood. And that is when man becomes a MAN in his true sense. She is all that life is, for man. In the virtues of the heart, she excels man by-far. With loads of patience and endurance, far more than man can imagine, she silently bears the pain and hides her sorrow in her bosom and overwhelms her own tears. She dispels the gloom of the disheartened spirits around her. There is sparkle and there is charm, where woman steps in.
Be it a darling baby sister, or an adorable girlfriend, a loving wife, or a caring mother. Any role she plays, a woman is a woman! She will always remain a woman. She will forgo her own comfort for the kind-hearted love of her dear ones and trains her siblings to virtue.
This, friends, is what I feel a woman is! Man would be incomplete without a woman. This world would be incomplete without a woman. Long live the woman! The quote below (courtesy Google!) expresses it beautifully:
The right to love whom others scorn,
The right to comfort and to mourn,
The right to shed new joy on earth,
The right to feel the soul's high worth,
Such woman's rights a God will bless,
And crown their champions with success।
