#SheWearsThePants Womans Day Contest WINNERS!!!

We received some amazing entries and was hard to select a few winners!

A hearty congratulations to the winners of the #SheWearsThePants Womans Day Contest.

Their story :

Soumita Saha

I am talking about that time when I was a young girl waiting for her 12th Boards exam result. Like every other friend I was also admitted to a reputed institution where we were doing a 3 months course on computer application. Sitting at home for JEE result was boring and attending the class was more fun because all my friends enrolled for that course.

I was a skinny girl who was never reputed as a weak bum but I preferred staying away from ridiculous fights. Like every other group ours was also a stupid one. We could not stop giggling if we could catch a sight of lovebirds entering the class. That couple was pursuing a degree course from that very institute. We used to call them “Paired Dove”. They followed the rule of entering together which made us giggle for a reason I still do not understand.

One evening our class was over. I guess they also had a break between two classes. The guy was shouting at the girl. The array of slangs started next, we were having our chit chat at that very place .We could hardly hear the girl’s voice and the boy was verbally abusing her. The guys in our group suggested not to interfere because we it seemed nothing more than a personal tiff. Soon we hear a sound and I could not believe my eyes when I heard the sound again and literally saw the guy slapping the girl. My blood was boiling with anger. 

The guy’s hand was almost at the girl’s throat. I could not bear it. I could not stand there like a silent spectator. My friends tried stopping me it went in vain. I screamed at the guy so loudly that it was heard by the receptionist of the institute too. The gate keeper who was pretending to have not witnessed anything changed his role in a single go and started scolding the guy. The head of the Institute reached and thanked me for making them aware. The guy was taken to the office and the girl was in tears. She thanked me too. I returned home with a kind of satisfaction that I had never felt before. I am honestly confessing that those school level prizes, medals and everything else gave me a taste of victory but if I did not stand by that helpless girl I would have never known what satisfaction really feels like.

During the certifying ceremony a senior from the institution told us that the guy had left the institute and the girl is still attending classes in peace.

Pooja Sahni

I don't know why women have or are expected to portray the so called 'Sati Savitri' outlook. So I was at the local Chaiwalla and had my bike in front with me sitting on it.

A middle aged married woman and her mom passing by in a rickshaw stared at me like I was an alien and started gossiping amongst themselves while very conveniently continued to stare! I mean come on is it so hard to digest the fact that women do ride bikes?? Just coz you didn't do it and never will that doesn't mean others don't have to. Why is it that only men are to be riding bikes?

If I didn't ride I know I would be some random person throwing stares at a girl who sat on a bike with a glass of chai in her hand and DAMN it would be so screwed up!! The kind of freedom my biking has given me knows no leaps and bounds.

Thanks for giving me this opportunity to share one of the many incidences.

Payel Mitra

I had to break away from my toxic relationship: a relationship which had made me stop believing in myself. I had reduced into someone else and was a mere shadow of my former self till the time I realized that I wasn’t me anymore. It was a hard decision to move on yet sometimes in life you have to take those tough calls. I decided to become a solo female traveller and thus began my journeys focusing more towards my inner self .Today, I have my own venture which focuses on healing women who may be suffering in silence and need support.

Kasturi Patra

My mother is my inspiration, the bravest woman I’ve seen. Widowed at the age of 23, she was left to fend for my brother and me. Without a college degree, she started at the lowest rung in dad’s office. Yet, she provided the best education for us, and took care of all responsibilities. Society asked her to remarry but she refused. Later, she taught me, 

“Your education is your asset, child, you don’t need a man to feel complete.”

I owe my strength and confidence to her and feel truly lucky, to have been blessed with the most phenomenal Mommy.

Ila Varma

Our life was going smooth; we were blessed with two well behaved kids and had acquired all the comforts of life from our own earnings. Suddenly, a dark phase entered in our life and threw our life out of gear. We both were unemployed due to heavy retrenchment at our work place and simultaneously, I got inflicted with neuropathy and my movement was restricted.

Huge responsibility of family lied ahead, so I gathered myself with courage and joined the office of Master Franchise of broking firm on a meager salary, exactly 1/6th of my previous earning.

The financial field was new for me, still I did not back out, rather I acquired optimum knowledge of the market and got certified in financial market and soon I was a prominent figure in broking business and this helped me fetch a better role in reputed firm. The salary package was enhanced and since then there has been no looking back. I regained all or more than the losses that I had incurred after the retrenchment from my first job and my family was settled. The jolt made me stronger and capable.

Anju Goel

My Mother, Mrs. Santosh Goel is the sole special woman in my life who has gone that extra mile and proved that she deserved to be a mother which is why no mortal other than her can occupy that exalted position in my life.

I remember, as an infant I had developed convulsions and was written off by doctors as a special child who'd never have a normal life...but thanks to God that I was born to such a loving and patient mother who sat up every night trying to bring my high fever down, who whispered reassuringly in my ears that I was God's most precious angel entrusted to her care, I not only was cured of my epilepsy completely but also went on to top my class in every examination since the third grade!

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