21st Century Women

A cremation ground was to be built in the village. The panchayat fixed two places, one very close to the village and the other at some distance from the village. Debates started on whether the cremation ground should be built near the village or at some distance away from the village. A drunkard said that only a dead person can be asked, people started laughing. Well, it was a joke, but the next day the sarpanch decided to hold a meeting to discuss the matter. The next day the meeting was held, many people gathered Everyone gave their opinion, finally the sarpanch asked an old man, he said that only the place near the village is suitable. Sarpanch declared it as the final decision and the meeting ended. In the evening, the daughter of the same old man goes to her father and asks why did you consider the place near you as appropriate? He said, daughter, I have become very old now and I am going to die in a few days. That's why you four of my daughters don't have to walk far away carrying the burden of my bier, so I justified the nearby place. Hearing this, his daughter immediately ran to the sarpanch and went and said that father has said that only a distant place is appropriate for the crematorium and came and said to her father, father, we are the daughters of today's world. We have learned to carry loads and walk long distances. We are not happy to see the moon, rather we light our own lamps. We drink water not by rain, but by digging a well, even if the land is on the sky. We are those women who don't just look at the scene but struggle with the circumstances. His father was speechless after hearing this.