Women’s Day

Today the world marks the Women’s day, there will be different ceremonies in accordance with the theme & then the day will come to an end. The next day everything will be back as usual. I am not anti day celebrations, for me they stand as the reflective days on which you check your progress & set further goals. Unfortunately, this is not happening now. Such days are only serving as society events now. Which is quite sad.

Women aren’t considered equals anywhere around the globe. This discrimination shows itself in one form or another even in the most developed countries self proclaiming to be champions of freedom & every socio-economic class. We tend to associate this discrimination to lack of education (true to some extent) but I guess that is because these are the cases slammed in our faces. No one gets to see issues from the so called more educated class because they have a reputation to look after. Hypocrisy, at its best. Margaret Heffernan in her book “The Naked Truth” highlights the lives of professional women in a very nice & blunt manner.

Being part of a blog which was created for honoring the work of a woman we consider remarkable & is run by women could not possibly miss this day. Here I present my reasons of supporting Fatima Bhutto. None of them are the one’s even remotely associated to her blood line. Though I have been in arguments where people have mastered the art of connecting each & every reason to that very subject. The major one is that her type are not that common specially in our region & even if they are they don’t get their due. Her stance of rejecting the very things that others deem as their birth right is something which is being ignored according to my view point.


Her stand for the justice for her father & her optimism against all odds show her real strength, which according to some relies in her last name. Wrong again me thinks because in a region where there is great emphasis on family names & actually they do wonders for you if you want, Fatima is overly scrutinized for it. People most of the time forget to even give an objective look at her work. Not to side line the fact that she is not interested in presenting herself in two versions, one for the locals & the other as to who she is. Supporting & writing about issues considered untouchable in our double standard society is something that makes me respect her even if I don’t agree with her stance at some point.


Another important thing that we (Karishma & I) have lately come to admire about Fatima Bhutto is her immense patience & ability to ignore the stuff which makes you wonder that when common sense let alone intelligence was being distributed by the Almighty some people forgot to pick up their share before landing on planet earth.

-Fatima Arif