WE PROUDLY declare that patriarchy is a system, where males are the head of the family and have all the rights of decision-making. Let us give it a thought on ‘what and where patriarchy stands in our society and to what extent does it appeal to our mind and soul’.
Patriarchy is the system that has been followed since the human beings came into existence. It is rarely seen that a women got her basic rights. Sati could be the prominent example of patriarchal system, where women were obliged to shun their precious lives on the pyre of their husbands.
Patriarchy is that bane or curse in our society, which has been deep rooted in the minds and hearts of people, be it men or women. Patriarchy is a system, which men and women have tried to abolish from ages. It is evident that in all the times more men have come forward to take the initiative of erasing this system from the minds of people as compared to women.
Women contribute more in promoting this system as compared to men. Patriarchy starts from petty things at initial level and turns bigger than Hercules with times. A fairly advanced family continues to indulge its daughter child to return home by 8.00 pm, whereas son of the same family has been given all the rights to hang out with his friends till 12.00 am.
Let’s take an example from the reel life. We all are well aware of the television programme Balika Vadhu. It has been clearly shown in it how the grandmother herself promotes this very custom of domination. How she dominates her own children and especially her daughter in laws, on account of customs and rituals, is very clear in the programme.
The Greek statesman, Pericles, once said, “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Antagonists may say that reel life have nothing to do with real life. But we all are well aware of the fact that somehow this reel life mirrors our real life. The readers themselves can judge the basic difference that is still the part and parcel of their lives by answering certain questions.
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