God of Hindu women

Today I chanced upon this wonderful movie Pinjar on TV. I have written about it on my another blog


But what stuck me today was a scene where after many years Paro gets a chance to go to her native village and offers her prayers in a roadside shrine of Hindu gods.

There was a similar scene in movie Roja where the heroine who is in Kashmir along with her husband at the height of militancy offers prayers in a temple by saying , north Indian god please tell your brother in south how much I love my husband.

then there was this story by a Sindhi Hindu doctor who had stayed in Pakistan for a few years. Once he is asked to treat a rich muslim landlord who had sexual disease , there he meets a beautiful whore. She takes him inside her room and shows him her 'krishna kanhayyia' who she used to worship even then. She was a Hindu girl who was kidnapped and raped by Muslims during partition and later sold into prostitution. She says to this gentleman that you are witness to my love to god , now I can die peacefully.
Such a touching story.


It is indeed very sad that Hindu society has shabbily treated its women over centuries. From Ahalya to Sita , and in modern times women who were left behind during partition were not accepted back. When even her father turns her away in movie , what recourse Paro is left than to ask God that not make her a girl in next birth.

this is the reason we have sex ratios of 800-700 in Punajb Haryana now. In fact a few days back when I went for an X ray of my teeth to a famous lab in city, the operator was fixing a deal for an ultrasound test in the evening with someone on phone.