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Dreams for India : E to W

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“Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.” ~Matthew Prior On most days when I take the C-52 Express bus to college, I often find myself to be the only woman on the bus. And my mind goes, “It’s a man’s World”. Sigh. Wo(e)men. In a disclaimer sort of a sense, I’d like to clarify, I am not a feminist. I’m not the one to go form those women's groups & wear pixie hair with no makeup & no jewellery. I’m your minimal jewelry & make up types. Like a bit of length & volume in my hair. Prefer being the change than protesting about one. So this post comes from an urban girl who loves being one and has big dreams for the women kind -for the nation. There is a necessary, almost –obvious- in -the -21-st –century- hyphen between those words in the preceding sentence. Because No, they are not two separate things. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn’t ever going to be sharing a coffee with me. And I think this bluntness is the strength of femin