LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:9 September 2018
ISSN 1930-2940

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No Longer Birds with Broken Wings:
Grappling against the Subjugation of the Afghan Woman -
A Concrete Introspection of Malalai Joya’s
Raising My Voice

Nisha Thomji Varghese


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.com/Raising-My-Voice-Extraordinary-Afghan/dp/1846041503

Abstract

Discrimination of women in the world is still a very real problem. Even though huge strides have been made against it in many Western countries it is still devastating throughout the world. All women deserve a life with the opportunity to be educated, to work, to be healthy and to participate in all aspects of public life. Yet in many parts if the world, women and girls live within the confines of rigid gender norms, which frequently result in disproportionate access to essential services and major violations of their human rights. But it also seen that women who have been marginalized as “the other” have exhibited resilience and have tried to overcome adverse events and experiences. They have not taken things lying down and have fought tooth and nail, braving all odds to achieve what they believed was right. Malalai Joya from Afghanistan is one such woman who has tried to voice the concerns of the people of her country.

Women in Afghanistan have for many years been depicted as neglected and harassed. They have been pictured as pitiful, ostracized and pushed to the margins. They have been featured as birds with broken wings, voiceless and incapable of experiencing happiness and joy. As portrayed in the media Afghan women are seen as creatures who have to face discrimination and marginalization at the hands of their men folk and also their fundamentalist society. Today the media reports that women's rights in Afghanistan have gradually improved in the last decade under the Karzai administration. The truth is far from it. Malalai Joya in her memoir Raising My Voice speaks about the deplorable condition of women in so called democratic Afghanistan. The true situation of Afghanistan has been hidden behind a smoke screen of words and images which have been made up by the U.S and it is only lies that the Western media portrays. They are fooling the world by creating a perfect picture of Afghanistan whereas the truth is not that.

This is only the beginning part of the ARTICLE. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Nisha Thomji Varghese
Assistant Professor
Department of English
St Albert’s College
Ernakulam
nishathomji@gmail.com

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