To every woman in the world,

I’m writing this for every woman in the world, for the ones who have been taken advantage of, who are the victims of eve-teasing, molestation or have been raped,  who still haven’t moved on or the ones who feel guilty of something they haven’t done. I write this as a woman who knows how it is like to be one of those. To begin with, the movies where they keep saying, woman’s body is a temple and once raped, she bears a stigma on her soul forever, she loses her chastity, her purity, they go on showing that the rapist must marry her for social acceptance. In many movies, the girl getting raped/ molested commits suicide. These movies are sick. Do not form any opinion based on such vice dogmatic narrow-minded bigotic male-centric shit, that they showcase. This is the saddest way of dealing this issue. We have been talking about women empowerment for years now, but no one knows how to go about it. No one can take initiatives but the women itself. Before a man or a woman, you are a human being with a life bestowed upon you, you are one of those million cells who could make it to life,winning the battle of the survival of the fittest. No one, absolutely no one can take that back. Not even you. You have the right to life. You have the right to live your life with dignity and honour, you are an individual who has his own identity. Things happen, shit-heads exist, if you cannot forgive, forget and move on. But do not let it happen again. No one can touch you without your will. You are no toy that any Tom Dick or Harry will come, play and fucking leave. They’d have to pay back, they must bear the consequences. Draw a line, the boundary, there are instances when people tend to cross that line, tell them to back off, don’t think twice. Stand by it. Gather strength, hold on to yourself, it’s all within you. Do something for yourself, respect your personal space and communicate this to others very clearly. It’s your life and you know whats right and whats not. For a woman, right from the time she attains her puberty or even before that, she has to protect herself, she has to protect her self-respect , she has to balance her changing physical, biological self with the way society looks at her. Maybe because she has a great responsibility of creating life, of giving  birth, of taking the human race ahead and protecting it from getting extinct. But before that, she must know the world and understand all the evils. She must stand up for herself,for her basic human rights and have the courage to tell the bastard that he will be punished for what he did. Trust no body, not even your brother, you’re safe nowhere. Don’t look vulnerable, pretend to be strong, if required. Don’t let people cross that line, no body. Respect your personal space. And clearly understand, whatever you do not want, should not happen. No human being can touch you if you do not want them to.  Don’t be guilty of something you haven’t done, stop suffocating yourself and start standing by your morals, gather courage to fight back. Don’t be a mute victim, that’s our biggest failure as a society. Tell those barbarians that they are wrong and you’ll not be quiet anymore. Always be circumspect, ignorance, as I always say, isn’t bliss. Escaping isn’t the solution. Fighting back isn’t easy,but in life, there will always be choices between what you know to be right, and what is easy.The right may seem tough when you face it, but in a few years time you will realize that taking the right path has made your life easier. Nothing is ugly or dirty, nothing is black, leave the dark behind and you’ll see a 
world waiting for you with open arms and the respect that you deserve .Life is precious. Life is beautiful.


The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.