WOMEN CORUSCATES DARKNESS DISGUISED IN THE FORM OF MORALITY- Justification through the study of "Mother and Children" By Anees Jung

 INTRODUCTION

“A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong.”

Women are the fillers of power and rej oice. The healty way to make them up with the nation's power is to allow them to do something or anything they need. We mention here the word "need", this explains that women suffering to fulfill their needs rather than their wants. It's obligated when the place have no vacancies for women in the perceptions of morality. Morality is something that has to be followed by each and every human structure. Let's not fight for the equality and relatablity of women. Rather we might be able to "speak" about the them and us because doing something forcedly never results in healthy revolution. Once people recognise the forecast of women empowerment, then it's a cycle to follow them up. Let's foresee those contributive section through the following headings through the vision of Anees Jung.

ICONIC COMPILER OF SENSUALITY

Anees Jung (born 1944 is an Indian author, journalist and columnist for newspapers in India and abroad,whose most known work, ' Unveiling India ' (1987) was a chronicle of the lives of women in India, noted especially for the depiction of Muslim women behind the purdah. Jung came into the limelight with the publication of Unveiling India in 1987, which is a travel diary focusing on interviews with women. She has written several subsequent books on the same, talking to women about their everyday lives, including Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India. (1993), Seven Sisters (1994). Breaking the Silence (1997) is based on conversations on women's lives from around the world. Beyond the Courtyard (2003) is based on interviews with the daughters of the women she had talked to first in Unveiling India, and many of the horrifying tales continue.

JOURNEY OF WOMEN

A Woman’s Journey is an old book that is picked up during one of Hyderabad walks. Primarily because the author belongs to a well-known family from the city. The subject was also intriguing, a woman’s journey. The book is based on the travels through the lanes of India in the mid-80s after the assassination of the most famous woman of the country Indira Gandhi.

Author interacts with a variety of women in various parts of the country in their own environments. And tries to understand their journies. Though like everyone else we have a stereotype in mind for rural women, urban women. For women who are behind the veil, for women who come to our homes to work and for almost all kinds of them. Through her conversations and observations author has tried to unveil the real women behind these stereotypes. She looks at the choices they made She looks at the relationship they have with God, men around them and other women. And she tries to explore their idea of love and what marriage means to them. How they relate to their children?

As she explores these various facets of women across the cross-sections of society, she makes you think hard about your ideas of concepts she is exploring. You question your conditioning about the society that you have lived with all your lives. For me, it created an urge to go and meet those women and find out more about the world that exists in their minds rather than the physical world that you see them in most of the times consciously.

UNVEILING WOMEN IN INDIA

The women in this book are not extraordinary or famous, and yet their stories and testimonies, narrated here by one of India's best-known women journalists, provide a passionate, often deeply touching, revelation of what it means to be a woman in India today.

The women tell of marriage and widowhood, unfair work practices, sexual servitude, the problems of bearing and rearing children in poverty, religion, discrimination, other forms of exploitation ... Yet they also talk of fulfilling relationships, the joys of marriage and children, the exhilaration of breaking free from the bonds of tradition, ritual, caste, religion ... Interwoven with all this is the story of one woman's journey--of how Anees Jung, the author, brought up in purdah, succeeded in shaking off the restricting influences of her traditional upbringing to become a highly successful, independent career woman, still a comparatively rare phenomenon in India.

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

WIDOWHOOD IN "MOTHER AND CHILDREN"

The hardest lesson to be independent is widowhood. Widows in vrindhavan, the land of krishna, God of love. Vrindavan is also known as the “city of widows” due to the large number of widows who move into the town and surrounding area after losing their husbands. There are an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 Widows.

In sri Bhagwan ashram, 1914, every year fifteen hundred Widows gather to chant the name of krishna in four shifts. The streets are littered with Widows who dwell in the ashram where they find the reason to live. In nights they gather pray god. If the God’s name chant thousand times means a measure of rice and two rupee a day. If a bengali women becomes Widow, she is thrown out of the house to live without any support. Widows who are too old to chant the god, does other works of vrindhavan. Rani amma, a widow in late sixtees who dwells in vrindhavan ashram says that if my mother was alive, I never left my home. Ma, a single word holds the whole family. Rani amma was married at nine and left to her husband ‘s place at twelve. She became widow at 22, she has son whose wife does not let her in. She quotes that, if I have a daughter, she would never let me go. Even the bigger didn’t get alms in the house with no daughter. Rani amma talks about the two significant role which she lacks in her life “Mother and daughter”. She found a service job in vrindhavan and goes beyond the love of krishna for thirty five years.

VRINDHAVAN WIDOWS AND THEIR WORKS

Sadhana dasi widowed at 21,now eighty, gate keeper in vrindhavan earning one rupee a day for the last sixty years. Kunderlata, widowed at 13,gives metal tokens to Widows and measures the wages of rice. Outside the ashram, a widow swinging The black eyed baby and soon she gave it to her mother. No one enjoys the joy of marriage, children but they find peace in vrindhavan ashram.

“In God’s kingdom of love, there’s no Widow”.

Sita bai, Tilsa who lives away hundred miles from bombay, lives in the house built by her husband with mud and palms. Her husband was killed by truck accident, she lives alone with her three children grazing and cattling the buffalos. She spends her night under the skies, thinking of the days that will dawn. She feels that, I’m not alone. Widowhood gives the strength to lead the life forward.

Women are born to be a mother, wife, daughter etc, not to be a widow.Women grow old and throny like the cactus in the desert.When, jung widowed at fifteen, he father felt the loss of her world when her husband died. But she revived herself. Unlike traditional Widows, she never sat in pooja room and read gita, rather she peeped through books and novels to recreate her identity. She is an ample lady of fifty five with remarried and travels beyond book.Rather than dressing in saffron yellow saree, she sprinkles saffron in her cup of tea. She never become pale, she spreads fragrance in her home. Imprisoned widow turns herself as a prisoner, guarding her home like a fortress. Thus Anees Jung brings out the theme of widowhood and the qualities of Widows in Mother and children. Through these Widows Jung explores the content Mother and Children.

INEQUALITY IN THE SOCIETY

The Author address the Partiality between men and women in the society. The girl children were given less priority in terms of medical aid, most of them were malnutritioned without proper food. There is a belief that the girl needs only less food to survive. The Girl children were killed in large number, out of 8000 abortions 7999 were female foetuses. Female infanticide was common during that period of time, 50% of the patients were in need to know the sex of the baby, to abort if it is girl baby says the Paediatrician.They considered girl child as a burden to them, because of the expense in terms of marriage and dowry. Male children were given more priority, if a boy baby is born they celebrate it by providing sweets and gifting the mid-wife saree and for Nurse they gift watch, but if it a girl baby there is no celebration and they gift nothing, it clearly shows the partiality in the society. The male child of the family is considered as their heir and they were the ones allowed to perform the last rites of their parents.

Motherhood is divinity but in a certain village in Maharashtra they considered mother and child as impure and made them stay in a separate cot for almost 11 days depicts the social beliefs against women. The widows without children were thrown out from their home and they were in the helpless situation to stay in Ashrams. Their is a proverb that 'A woman should be a lump of clay', they expect women to mould themselves as pretty, dutiful, flexible person, this depicts the Objectification of women. Author wonders that the barriers between Men and women must have began from School. Girl children were dropped out from the school to perform the household chores. The girl children unknowingly slips into the role of the mother before she becomes one. Education is a tool for the upliftment of women, which gives the courage to the educated women to conquere the Socially constructed impositions on them.

STRUGGLES FACED BY WOMEN IN RURAL INDIA

Anees Jung, the author has travelled across India, visited different cities and villages to analyse the lives and struggles of women from different backgrounds. Right from the birth till the last breath, a women faced problems and turmoils from her own family and the society. With no education or financial support and their struggles to lead a normal life, women feel stuck with these issues and couldn't find a way out of them. Irrespective of caste or religion, there have been barriers put forth in front of women from centuries which many are trying to break free from today. The one shocking verse of ancient poem with a line “Feed a women less, for she is not going to fetch you anything. She is a burden for whom you need to spend on her marriage and dowry”, this makes the author angry. From an outsider perspective, people might say that such days are long gone and women are treated better in the current Indian society. But there is a bigger entity called rural India where such practices still prevail but is not addressed. Some of the experiences mentioned in the book protray a clear picture of exploitation, prejudices and discrimination. She explains the change that has taken place in Indian society so that now women will tell their own stories.

“Not long ago a woman who speak herself was considered a loose woman. To voice a pain, to divulge a secret was considered sacrilege, a breach of family trust".

Jung herself, who grew up completely secluded in Purdah. She presents her books, whichbegins with her own story and slowly blends into the story of other women as a ‘Journey’. Themost important contribution that Anees Jung's vision of survival and grace makes to developing literary tradition lies in the way it moves beyond the Sita - Savitri ideal of woman as wife.

CAUSES OF INSTABILITY AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE

Today, voices are raised without fear, and are heard outside the walls of homes that once kept a women Protected, also isolated. Some of the women who speak here have stepped out. Others, who have not, areBeginning to be aware, eager to find expression. (Jung 109) The text of Jung Unveiling India is about the status of women and their different stories regarding the Violence against women, their economic instability, social injustice and other sort of inequalities. Anees Jung Was an Indian women author, journalist and columnist for major newspapers in India and abroad. In her most Famous work Unveiling India she has depicted the ironical lives of women in India especially the ironies of Muslim women. Jung came into limelight with this publication, she has written several other books as well, in Which she has talked about different issues of women in the society. This book brings to limelight various issues That are present in muslim society like marriage issues, widowhood, unfair work practices, sexual servitude, the Problems of bearing and rearing children in poverty, religion, discrimination and other forms of exploitation. It Also talks about the fulfilling relationships, the joys of marriage and children rearing, the exhilaration of Breaking free from the bonds of tradition, ritual, caste and religion.

CONCLUSION

Women and men on their other counterpart signifies their strength and it's must to glimpse transversion of them.

"I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life."

Laverne Cox

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