Women’s Day and Aigiri Nandini

Happy Women’s Day, everyone!

I know I am delayed by a couple of days in publishing this content. Sorry about that. But hey, why would you mind if I posted it on a different day. The causes of women’s equality are open items even today, right? Additionally, I have a few cliched social media statuses to share. It’s not a “forward as received” kind of content. 🙂

One. Can we agree that Women’s journey towards equality has been painstakingly slow? It is like watching the paint dry. I agree that we live in a more gender-equal society than at any point in the recorded history of human civilization. However, it’s sad to see we have outsourced the progress of equality to the wrong set of torchbearers. We should’ve never trusted the Left to achieve anything good in this regard. In fact, of late, we’ve seen regression in what was accomplished over the last few decades.!

Let me give one example. Recently, there were some decisions taken by the elected government entities which can potentially kill women’s sports. I am not kidding. This is true. There is no point in guessing who lobbied for it. Potentially, the women may not be able to even qualify to forget winning in their own “women’s sports”. If this momentum continues, this might impact the Olympics as well. Please read through Joe Biden’s First Day Began the End of Girls’ Sports

Second. There is a regression in the way stories are being narrated. When an imagined lie is introduced in the story, the credibility goes for a toss. I have written about it in one of my previous posts on a movie review – Gunjan Saxena. Here, a director built an entire movie around a woman officer’s plight in the armed forces, where 100% of the misogynistic treatment was pure work of fiction. The lady officer eventually took the legal route, but the damage was already done. Let’s achieve equality, but not at the cost of truth.

I will leave you with a video. Please consider it a greeting card for Women’s Day. It’s a song called Aigiri Nandini, written in Sanskrit by Adi Shankaracharya. If that information were accurate, in all its likelihood, this lyric is 1400 years old!!! The song is a set of praises to the Goddess, the mother of the Trinity of Gods – Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. She takes various forms to visit Earth whenever there is a regression of the collective values of earthlings. The song sings about this and the qualities attributed to her in a very clever use of language.

Evidently, the same song can be used to appreciate women in more of a philosophical sense. That is why it’s a great greeting card for Women’s Day.

Another thought. This song is probably the first rap song with its full version and has more than 800 words, which will be sung within a few minutes.

Again. Happy Women’s Day, everyone!