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Every Woman Should Have A Home

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A woman has no home and no surname, yet she strives her best to make a home out of the place she is married into and attach the surname of the family she enters in relationship with. Amid all this, there are times when she still feels the urge to have a home of her own. This poem is about a mother telling her daughter about the way society treats a married woman and why she will need a home for herself. Remembering what her mother told her, She decided to defy the rule. Remembering what her mother taught her, She struggled to hold her plight. Remembering what her mother lessoned her, She decided to convey to her daughter turning fifteen. "You will have to go to the man, Who takes you as his bride, You should know dear child, The home where you grow is never yours, The house where you will be taken in palanquin, You can exit from there only on bier. The words of my mother became bitter truth, "Remember my child, woman have no home to call her own." In this lifetime of min

On My Side Of The Road

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  A fear that lurks every girl, she wishes none to anyone yet can never escape one. Radha was a fourteen year old girl. She was studying in tenth standard in  L.S. Girls School .  One evening she was returning home from her mathematics tuitions with her best friend Teresa. “I hate trigonometry.” Teresa frowned. “Don’t worry I am here to make it interesting for you.” Radha smiled looking at Teresa, at the same time switching side with her. “Why do you always keep me on the safe side? Am I a child?” Teresa grunted. “I don’t trust the way you walk.”   Just then a man in bicycle brought himself beside them pressing right breast of Radha and sped away. Radha at once turned back to shout at the man but he was far away and all she could see was his back and the bicycle. “How the hell he could do this? Are you fine?” Teresa was angry and concerned at the same time. Radha did not speak a word and they did not talk to each other on rest of their way to home. Radha did not speak about