GOD IS A SHE

The first Monday of the Month of March dedicates itself to women. Women achievers (who are mostly from the entertainment industry) give long interviews, pose for glamorous pictures while the retail and service sectors offer free movies, free lunch, and incredible sale on fashion accessories exclusively for women.

The cell phone network companies make their share of profit – The men send out inspiring text messages mostly to women whom they hope to impress someday which indeed is quite an exhaustive list.

So the world thinks it is doing a favour on women by dedicating one day in a year for them, when the rich and the famous women, who anyways occupy considerable media space occupy a bit more and consumerism decides to capitalize by enticing women for free stuff and taking full advantage of them to ensure they visit the store/restaurant/cinema again even without the free offer.

But who are the real women? And why do we need one day to honour them? Since we trample upon them, abuse them and take them for granted the rest of the year, someone decided to humour women, and the world agreed unanimously.

I’ve always believed that if there is a god, it is a she. A man can never be so compassionate, understanding, tender and selfless to the point of compromising the most cherished desires/ambitions. The male ego dominates the world to such an extent that the underlying female energy that powers the world is suppressed. This again is possible because of the unconditional, forgiving nature of the female.

The other day, like millions of Indians, I too basked in the glory of my cricketing idol Sachin Tendulkar scoring a double hundred in one-day internationals. While adulations kept pouring for him across the world, with petitions to give him the Bharat Ratna, I stopped celebrating.

There has been a double hundred scored in ODI before. 29 runs more than the master and in just 8 more deliveries. This was in a world cup match in 1997. Belinda Clark, achieved this 13 years ago in Mumbai, in a world cup match against Denmark. This has appeared in the mainstream media only during the Women’s day after Sachin Tendulkar achieved this feat. Had the master not reached his double ton, perhaps I would never have known she existed!

When the world media splashed across with headlines calling Sachin Tendulkar as “the first in the planet to score a double hundred in ODI” did we hear Belinda protesting? Did she call a press conference? When Sachin drove away in a Volvo S80 and was richer by Crores after his feat, did Belinda throw any tantrums?

This is the real woman. There is a Belinda in every woman, which is invisible to the male ego, which is why men seek god elsewhere. God is indeed a SHE.

And men? Well, Men crib about not getting due credit for a film inspired by a story written by them.