Were you not a girl, Mamma?

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This is the first article/story I ever wrote which was published during my initial college days and hence it is very dear to me apart from various other reasons. Hope you like it too and is worth your time.

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Ah! This is such a beautiful sight I am observing. These two girls looking so happy with each other, hand in hand going round in the rose garden, playing with each other totally lost in their enjoyment and devoid of any troubles as it seems.

I feel so happy to see this, to adore such a lovely sight, to imagine that, someday Iโ€™ll be there with one of my close friends or my sister or my brother. By the way will I have any brother or sister mamma? Or do I have any who is waiting for me expectantly?

Someday Iโ€™ll be there enjoying this austere and beautiful garden of roses where I am planning to play, itโ€™s marvellous appearance and its capturing smell is so, so strong that I wish to be there now. But I think that itโ€™s not good for me at present. For the time I should be here, quiet, and safe inside your womb, mamma. It is too early for me to come out, right?

I desperately wish to see you mamma. I want to see my family, my house where I will be. I want to see this life which everyone wishes to. Though I have heard a lot about the sufferings of the life, I earnestly wish to live it, experience it, and to test my capabilities of experiencing it. I want to have friendโ€™s mamma, I want to have a family. No not one Iโ€™ll have two families like you mamma. Someday Iโ€™ll also have a husband like you have as my father and after some more days I may also be a mother like you. It seems so interesting but for now this thought is quite early, very early in fact. There are too many years but yet to pass.

I want to study mamma I want to gain knowledge and under your guidance I will hopefully have a good idea of art too. Youโ€™ll teach me no mamma?

I feel so obliged to be gifted a life. I feel so special warmth inside me when you touch your womb and with a sensation of care and delight you say โ€œit is so special a feeling my child to have you inside me and it fills me with so much of happiness when I imagine you to call me a motherโ€ I want you to be my friend, philosopher and guide. I want you to guide me throughout my life mamma! I hope you will, I know you will. You are so kind dear!!

But for now may I please request you to go home mamma? The garden is becoming so cold and it is getting very dark too. Please, let us go towards home mamma I am feeling so cold and you must also be feeling so? You must take care of yourself mamma or else granny will scold you! By the way how is granny mamma?

Thank you for proceeding towards home mamma. You are so kind! You are so caring! I love you mamma. I know you will take care of me so tenderly when I come to you, Just as this girl wearing a white dress is looking after you in this โ€˜WHITE CABINโ€™ but where are we mamma? This is probably not our house. It is totally white. People here are totally in white. And why are they making you sleep in such a small bed? You need to be comfortable you wonโ€™t be at any ease here. You will suffer here, you will be uncomfortable here. Please listen to me or else Iโ€™ll complain to granny and sheโ€™ll definitely scold you.

See you are already restless! Get up mamma, get up! It is already hurting you.

But now it is hurting me too. What is this mamma? What is happening? What are they doing to you? Why are you crying?

They are hurting me mamma. They are hurting me. It is so painful. Complain! I pray you to complain to them. You are so cruel mamma. I do not want to go mamma. I want to live. I want to see this life.

God!

Forbid…

Stop! Have pity on me.

I want to live mamma. I want to live. I want to come out of you. Why are you hurting me and yourself?

Oh! God! Look! Please!

They are cutting me, my legs, hands, they were so very small. They are thrashing it, smashing it. They are cutting me into pieces mamma. Ah! Itโ€™s no more hurting me mamma, itโ€™s paining now. And I am speechless of your act and breathless because of this pain. You have killed me mamma. You have killed me. How could you do this mamma? How could you?

Just because I was a girl you killed me? Is being girl a sin? What did I do or what I would have done to trouble anyone? Why did you not allow me to enter the world? But if this world is such, where people kill their own blood I am lucky enough to not be there with you all.

My life annihilates just within three months but at least it was a peaceful one, not like yours comprising a sin. A sin, to kill an innocent!

I would merely ask you a question mamma I was a girl and you killed me. But were you not a girl mamma? Had you been in my place how would have you felt?

And here I die without making any difference to anyone.

Are girls so useless mamma?


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47 responses to “Were you not a girl, Mamma?”

  1. unsaid words Avatar

    So painful ๐Ÿ˜ฆ ,and I am imagining what the mother might be going through .World have never been easy for girls ,the one who was going to give birth and the one who was going to take birth ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      I know, it has never been easy and however much we try somewhere someone still suffers the old torments implied on us.

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      1. unsaid words Avatar

        Totally agreed ,the world is changing .Women are growing ,evolving but still the real world which stays behind the global social media ,which staus on the streets ,in the lazy ,sleepy small towns.It’s all just the same , and we can only claim to changed or evolved only when the development or mentality change touches to those hiddrn lanes too .

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      2. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        That is absolutely true, and I don;t see that happening in near future,
        Cause just yesterday I was talking to a friend who was literally crying because her family members bothered her as she was wearing shorts and skirts. And when she would not listen to them she was regarded as “badtameez”.
        I mean seriously we live in this society?!!

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      3. unsaid words Avatar

        And that bengaluru incident ,where girls were harassed on road.And you won’t believe what the chief minister had to say.”western wears are responsible for the incidents like this.”

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      4. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        I mean then why aren’t men harassed on the streets when they roam around pot midnight wearing shorts? when men do it it is acceptable but when women do it it is disregarding..
        seriously we need to grow up!!

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      5. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        I sure did and it is just shameful! When men wear trousers instead of dhotis and the traditional Indian dresses they aren’t to blame but we as women are to be. Why always us?

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  2. boundlessblessingsblog Avatar

    A great story Moushmi and you have written so well on the girl child and how our society still does not want girls and welcome boys. Great post.

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thanks dear.
      It is unfortunately still the scenario, though not everywhere but at some places.

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      1. boundlessblessingsblog Avatar

        Yes Moushmi.

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  3. El Coleccionista Hipnรณtico Avatar

    This is terrific, really making one tearing itself inside. Huge denounce of an ill society we are all living in

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thank you.
      I agree totally dear with our ill society!!

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  4. buddy71 Avatar

    wow!

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thank you.

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      1. buddy71 Avatar

        you are most welcome

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  5. rathoreami Avatar

    Speechless u r such a wonderfull writer loved dis post

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thank you so much dear.
      I totally appreciate you reading it.

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      1. rathoreami Avatar

        Thanxxxxx but its worth๐Ÿ˜

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      2. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        I am glad dear.

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  6. kratzworld Avatar

    this is so painful and impactful. One of the best I’ve ever read. way to go .. ๐Ÿ™‚

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thank you so much…
      I would be glad if this piece even makes a tiny difference.

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      1. kratzworld Avatar

        It truly will… I am glad you took up this issue. I hope every misogynist on earth reads it..:’)

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      2. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        Hope is on. ๐Ÿ™‚

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  7. Paul Avatar

    Very powerful Moushmi! I had no idea where the narrative was going and then what a shock. I had the distinct feeling that the mother did not want to lose her girl but was as much a victim of a sexist social order as the child. We all lose in this situation. Great story.

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thank you so much dear.
      I am just so glad that this was appreciated. I have no more words on this than I have already spoken.
      I have seen these sexist social order through my eyes and have gone through some of them and all I can say is “I keep fighting against it, at least I try.”
      Thank you once again.

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  8. Clarissa Avatar

    Pretty! This has been a really wonderful post.
    Many thanks for supplying these details.

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  9. Etoile 75005 Avatar

    This is quite moving. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      I am so glad you liked it. I truly appreciate it.

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      1. Etoile 75007 Avatar

        ๐Ÿ™‚

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  10. artistbybeauty Avatar
    artistbybeauty

    Wonderful post dear ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚ x x

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thank you so much dear.

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      1. artistbybeauty Avatar
        artistbybeauty

        Your most welcome ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚ x x

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