Announcing Aurat Bandh 26th December 2012

Announcing Aurat Bandh

26th December 2012

From 1947 to 2012, India has seen many a Bharat Bandh, Gujjar Bandh, Maharashtra Bandh etc. etc and we’ve all seen innumerable times the mechanics of these bandhs and how they do NOT function.

A woman gets gang raped in a moving bus and the country stands spineless. What do we as women get to hear – “Don’t step out of the house, don’t go anywhere unaccompanied, don’t wear revealing clothes – in short they would prefer if we would stop living.”

Since the government of this nation fails us yet again, it is now time to take matters into our own hands.

45% of our Corporate Workforce are women. If we come together and boycott all work for day, at home or in the office - we can bring the country to a standstill and force society to finally recognize our rights and appreciate us.

It's time we stand up for our rights and security.

This call goes out to ALL the women in the nation for an AURAT BANDH to pledge our solidarity to the innumerable women being victimized simply for being women.

Let us not do any work for one day and let's see how the society manages to function. 

Also one would like to clarify that this isn’t about women staying at home to be safe. On the contrary, it is about how much women contribute economically and sociologically to a society.

The aim is for men to see the least amount of women on the streets, in offices and all other familiar places not doing the things they are used too.

This is all about the power women have in any given social economical situation.

Aurat Bandh is about telling one and all that while we cannot function without a safe environment, repeatedly being victimized for being women; even an economy and society cannot function without our contribution.

Not Bharat Bandh but an Aurat Bandh on December 26, 2012.

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Noor Enayat