There is certain bliss when a housewife travels through the pages of her child’s notebook, an epiphany of a lost self and the chance of continuing learning pricks her heart.
Learning should commence at birth and cease only at death. On one hand a man wants to complete his PhD and on the other side a woman’s education is barricaded after she completes her schooling. It is said that if you educate a man; you educate a man but if you educate a women; you educate the whole generation. The disparities in gender, class, community also lead to illiteracy. A woman in the traditional Indian structure is kept in the pedestal of goddess and made to define the family’s pride. But the reverence of this goddess has eroded to something more along the lines of “Raise My Children” and “why isn’t my breakfast ready?” The lack of knowledge in women makes them incoherent to the decisions which revolve around her family and affect her life too.
