Rage rage against....

Sitting in your cage, with your eyes shut
Chained bird, what do you ponder on, within yourself?
Or, perhaps, you alone have the right to think

These lines though written to reflect the condition of women in 19th century bengal, aptly and unfortunately comminucates the present scenario too.

The metaphor of the caged bird is one every woman can relate to,it cuts across the narrow boundaries of class, race, geographical location. It is indeed a hollow sham when we talk about women's liberation making a huge hue-n-cry about feminism and equal rights in academic and political circles whereas we suffer,and yes ,make no bones about accepting it,suffer,tolerate silently and in pliant submission the blows that patriarchy hurls at us in an unfailing manner.

I came across an article on FMG on the net while researching for my paper on Carribean women's poetry and it left me appalled,how could this be,my blood ran cold in my veins,I didn't know whether to thank my stars for being born in India or feel outraged at this humiliation that these girls have to undergo...

FMG or female genital mutiliation is a common practice in more than 28 communities in Africa.This I had heard,but I was completely unprepared for the statistics and some facts that left me pained, shocked, baffled and plain angry,very very angry...

Apart from countries like Yemen, UAE, Oman and Egypt, FMG is supposedly also practised in the Asian countries like Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Malaysia and even more shocking, India( a small community called the Daudi Bohra practise clitoridectomy).

Here is a part of the article ...http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/inter/fgm.htm

Supposedly, it is done to preserve the virginity of women and nothing, I believe could be more ridiculous or inhuman,do these people even deserve to be called humans???