HOUSE OF DOLLS….!!!

I could never fathom the fun and exclusivity of dolls and doll-houses being offered especially to little girls,across the world.It has taken all of two decades of public interaction to realize the purpose and intent behind the customary way of looking at things.
For one, there never was the concept of ‘gender-discrimination’ those ancient days .It was just the fact of co-existence of the males and the females of the human species.Secondly,nobody ever complained of the woman staying back at home to be branded the ‘housewife’ whilst the man of the house went out to fend for the family’s livelihood-becoming the ‘house-holder’.Next,technology was conspicuous by its absence leaving no room for the spread of either mass movements nor the concept of ‘equality of woman and man’.
I now seem lost and forlorn in my cry for a re-thinking on the unchecked and unbridled use of freedom of thought,life and liberty by excessively liberated folks who choose to ignore the pleas of the conservative and the tradition-bound mindsets of the disciplinarians.Every ear is deaf it seems ;every mind has stopped its original functioning it appears .All are beset by the mass propoganda unleashed through popular media and in corridors of power.
Whither the concept of human security and security of life?Is marriage no longer an institution?Are womenfolk going to be rid of the harrassments and domestic violence being meted out to them with the mere passage of the bill categorizing them in the legislative sphere?What is required to prevent the dressing up of mannequins and dolls or the conversion of an august house of wisdom into a doll-house?
An ounce of honesty ,a good measure of self-introspection and a whole lot of goodwill for all the women of the country-be they from a rural or urban region;be they literates or illiterates;be they young or old.
Mangled ideas and hasty bills cannot reset lives nor dictate reason into the bad conscience of a whole nation who seem to have been left in a state of uncertainity,confusion and ennui in the name of a people’s democracy.
Acts of preservation are of paramount importance ,not an act of reservation for a few.