Daughters- No longer a              पराया धन!

Happy Daughter's Day!

It's daughter's day, just now I'm told. That leaves me wondering, how is it that there's not a single post on FB that could wake me up to write a post dedicated to the day!

Father's day, mother's , teacher's and all such days never pass off like this kind of a damp squib. But why?

While taking my usual  hour - long evening walk, I tried googling the inbuilt search engine atop the head. This took me down the memory lane when in India daughters were virtual outcastes, deemed (rather than either regarded or respected as) something in Hindi whereof I'm unable to choose an exact English equivalent . So, I cite the specific Hindi term , which is of course so much sugar coated in respectability that it stayput any adverse discussion. 

That term is पराया धन!

Intrinsic in this nomenclature is the cultural exclusion to the parental  family which daughters learnt to grow with until changes began to take shape in the seventees , so to say.

Even the Hindu Succession law maintained tacit exclusion until 1937 whereafter some cosmetic changes brought some succour for daughters who ultimately found some stable respectability for the first time with amendment introduced for the first time as late as in 1956, but that was incomplete though in tune with the slow paced social evolutions. 

However by the turn of the century, daughters made their way into every professional spheres and quite consistent with their evolution, the 2005 amendment came as a final word for them, making them an all purpose equivalent of a Son!

The import of what I have cryptically presented is not to discuss details, but only to say that it's not enough to say or forget to say, Happy Daughter's day.  Idea is to call upon the daughters for stock taking. 

Just don't feel content about the milestones you have crossed. Look back, to check if you have more to put in, but without being oblivious of what traditions predicate for you as a daughter.

Happy Daughter's Day!