Happy (?) women's day

Happy International Women's Day! Are you not happy? No? Let me give you the reasons to be happy.

Indeed be happy for being born instead of killed in the womb for being an XX instead of XY.

Be happy for getting educated, many have lost their lives for that privilege.

Be happy for being able to be qualified to take a job, many have fought for this right.

Be happy for having the freedom to dress as you please, many countries do not offer that freedom.

Be happy for your smooth, soft, and spotless skin; acid attack victims are deprived of this joy.

Be happy for being able to raise your voice, there are many waiting to silence you.

Be happy that you have the privileges such as driving, voting, or stepping out of the house on your own; I do not need to tell you which countries ban these for women.

Be happy for having the financial independence, for you do not have to prepare a pitch for asking for money.

Be happy if you became a solo traveller, this is a rare type of freedom.

Be happy for being surrounded by friends in a world surrounded by snakes and backstabbers. You may not know, someone may look at you as their role model.

Be happy for the reserved seats in public transport; finally the authorities realized that women need to sit too.

Be happy if you have good health, your own body works against you. Let's not forget that the state of OB-GYN research and development is vastly ignored.

Be happy for choosing peace over chaos; the ones who created that chaos desperately want to drag you to hell.

Be happy for carving your own path; those who criticized have never had accomplishments of their own.

Being a woman, you will be called "irritable", "drama queen", or "is it that time of the month" even if you show slightest sign of agitation. Be happy if you still have good mental health.

Be happy for the "bare minimum", because it could be a luxury for someone.

Be happy to have met your own expectations; you will never be "accomplished" in others' eyes.

Be happy for any reason you can think of, because there are 1000 reasons to be unhappy.

Womanhood is a delightful, lifelong tightrope walk where the safety net is made of judgment and the audience wants to see you fail miserably. You may break the glass ceiling, only to hear that someone's sister, mother, wife, or other woman did it better that you while looking younger, fitter, and prettier than you.

So, enjoy your 24 hours of appreciation - tomorrow we will be going back to our exhausted, overworked, and underpaid existence.

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नमस्कार मंडळी. माझ्या "श्रीगणेश पूजा विधि" या गेल्या वर्षी प्रकाशित झालेल्या पुस्तकाला गणेश भक्तांचा अभूतपूर्व असा प्रतिसाद मिळाला. यामुळे मला मिळालेली उमेद असे सांगत होती की आपल्या हिंदू धर्मात अशा अनेक प्रथा आहेत आणि अशी माहिती आहे जी आता लुप्त होण्याच्या मार्गावर आहे. ती जतन करणे आवश्यक आहे जसे की आजीबाईचा बटवा इत्यादी. याच्या अनुषंगाने मी विविध विषयांना आजपासून स्पर्श करण्याचा आणि ते विषय आपल्यासमोर सादर करण्याचा प्रयत्न करणार आहे. अपेक्षा ही आहे की माझा हा संकल्प आपल्या पसंतीस उतरेल. कुठल्याही कामाची सुरुवात करताना गणेशाला वंदन करूनच आपण करतो. ॐ गं गणपतये नमः | अष्टविनायकांची नावे याप्रमाणे: मोरगावचा मयुरेश्वर सिद्धटेकीचा सिद्धिविनायक पालीचा बल्लाळेश्वर मढचा वरदविनायक थेऊरचा चिंतामणी लेण्याद्रीचा गिरिजात्मक ओझरचा विघ्नेश्वर आणि आठवा रांजणगावचा महागणपती वाचकहो, ही सुरुवात आहे. दर आठवड्यातून एकदा मी आपल्या भेटीस येईन. प्रत्येक वेळी विषय वेगळा असेल, अशी माझी अशी माझी संकल्पना आहे. - आनंद कृष्णाजी कणेक...

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