Shalu Nigam

  She is a girl; she has a right to survive with dignity Shalu Nigam  21 June 2022 She is not a commodity to be traded  Hope that the moment you downgraded her could be faded  She is not an object of your desire She has dreams of her own to aspire She is not a burden to be discarded  She is a human to be accepted  She is not a property to be owned  She could imagine a world of her own She is not a source of your free labor Respect her rights and her worth, she is stronger Because she is a girl, a woman  She needs no permission Her body her life and her future belong to her Don't bring in your stereotypes, traditions or your repressive culture  Your world is brutal and discriminatory  But she dreams of a world that rests on equality Where everyone has a right to survive with dignity

  Every little girl has a dream, a dream that will not die…. https://countercurrents.org/2021/09/every-little-girl-has-a-dream-a-dream-that-will-not-die/ 27/09/2021 Every little girl has a dream A dream to study, a dream to play, A dream to dance, a dream to fly, A dream to be free from all adversities, A dream that imagines equality, a dream that eliminates hierarchy, A dream that shatters glass ceiling, a dream that challenges patriarchy, A dream against oppression, a dream against subjugation, A dream of possibilities, passions and aspirations, A dream of liberation and a dream of emancipation, A dream that will not die…   You may build walls, fences or boundaries, You may create barriers of caste, class, religion or any other hierarchy, You may close schools, defund colleges, smother universities or lock libraries, But you cannot lock nurturing imaginations, You may use arsenals or weapons, bombs, military or prisons, For these dreams have been cultivated, and passed on through gen