Travelling by train has always fascinated me, this time wasn't any different. Whenever I travel lots of thought come into my mind. So here I go :-)
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We still differentiate between a boy and a girl
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I was travelling by AC 2 tier, it was necessary to reveal the class because we all think people travelling in those classes are educated, informed... but to my astonishment this wasn't the case !
There was a family.. 1 small boy, 1 small girl, DADAJI, DADIJI and NANI.. It was dinner time and all were having dinner. I remember my childhood days when we liked to eat dinner served by Pantry, same was the case with the boy and girl. Few minutes later Pantry dinner was being served. Little boy started asking his DADA, DADI for it.. How could the girl miss this, so she also asked for it :-)
Till here everything appeared to be normal..but what surprised me was the order for just 1 plate. You guessed it right, boy was served and the girl wasn't. I could see pain in her face, which clearly suggested that this wasn't the first time. So what could see do..nothing but she went to sleep in her berth.
After few moments when the boy had his fill, DADAJI called the girl to have some from his brother's plate. ..but why ? Why not brother from his sister's plate... ??
This may appear not to be an issue, but I was there to witness the partiality in favour of the boy child. The pain in her eyes told all, but what can see do ? She has been facing all this before without knowing ... This clearly suggests no matter how educated we are, no matter how elite we look like, no matter how modern we make of ourselves, no matter what we pretend.. we are a society who still discriminates between a boy and a girl....
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It was really a touching story.......basically from my point of view we all are responsible for that , if we want to change this , what we call partiality among the girls and boys we have to change ourself thinking, we have to think in a bigger way..And i think the day will surely come when this will never happen in our society.....
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