BIKERS CLUB MARCH 2019 ISSUE | Page 32

LOVE AND RESPECT WOMEN Women plays different roles in their life time and so as Men. She is a daughter, wife, mother, grandmother in her personal life and a working woman in her professional life. Men also lives many roles but the basic difference is, women creates and nurtures another life whereas, men protects it. Men seeks respect in society but women seeks love as well as respect not from society but from her partner whom she loves. Women are not only suppressed but also neglected by men in many ways when it comes to gender parity. Men have always considered themselves as superior than women, but in fact its totally opposite. Men feel they are superiors and are strong enough for everything but actually they can't do anything without the help of women, in fact the entire universe can't function without female energy. IF YOU CAN'T RESPECT WOMEN, YOU CAN'T LOVE THEM First of all, one has to understand that there is very thin line between LOVE and LUST. Love and Respect goes hand in hand. Imagine a guy who loves his girl but don't respect her in front of others then what would you call that thing? Will she ever be able to give respect to that guy? Will she ever be able to love that guy. And even if she does it by means of marriage or society thing then that will be THE QUEUE The walls had a silence, so thick and impenetrable, even the prisoner had to think twice about getting a word out. Grey bricks and darker creeks build these shields up, creating a world of their own. Those who were still human enough to remember what trees or the world outside looked like, would often compare those creeks to twigs. They grew haphazardly, one branch giving life to another. Again, they were foolish enough to compare. The routine however, had them bound. They were bound to their reality, to the life inside. Without any hope that, would more likely hurt someone than result in their salvation? This was where the ones held captive felt at home. They felt at ease, and their synchronized marching resembled that of the military. Some may have ended up here from there. However, there had been a punishment to endure. Some for life, some for a month and some until they tied a rope around themselves and let go. Yet the walls had it clear from the start. You came here to repent. To measure an inhuman amount of time that could make your repentance certain, if not guaranteed. The mindless axe picking on the grounds, the harsh unrefined gravel and the weary shoes of the labor, all of it was the reflection of a prisoner, a robot now maybe. Was this the perfect way to claim one guilty? Was it the path of redemption, of God? Who knew? Who knew about any of it? It was what it was. The day started in the dark, and then revealed you to the scorching sun heating up a bare field that was simply part of the collateral damage along with our misery. Then they robbed the light again. A howling echo that screamed "LIGHTS OUT" would end our day. His single command that made people helpless and more animal again, creeping back to their hole. These iron bars restricting you to a square foot; and your body functioning with the morning bell and the timed announcements of an intrepid guard. No one could capture an image like this. Not even the mirrors, which deprived the cell. The identities of each on in here had faded. It had faded into numbers and black and white stripes of a uniform. Individually was a foreign concept. Merely 2 months in this, remorseless pit and you were lost for life. One thing was certain though-rehabilitation was a dead concept. They could not rehabilitate even for the dead. Every single atom here was bereft of any memory. There were just walls, rocks and ashes. Of those who were, are and would be. Nothing else would ever matter. Even with the screeching megaphone, blasting at the break of dawn, no sound would escape the walls. Just the monogamous march would resume. At first it could even seem astonishing-the meticulous, rhythmic stomps. Nevertheless, within seconds it would turn foreign and dissolve. Dissolve in these bars, discarded and quite often just beaten out of you. The routine allowed us to walk, to breath, to break rocks, and breath some more-it felt futile. It was just a petty scheme to pacify the inhibitors. The lining up, according to our numbers, had no point. We would never be anything but pawns in this game of chess; and reaching the end of the board to triumph, was impossible, as the black and white was endless. In addition in this realm it would not function that way. One breath out of place could land you in hell; or worse-the infirmary. Yet they will call you out the next day, line you up, scan your head to toe and shove you back in the cell like apiece of old meat. The distance from the queue to your home, to your cell, it would not even size up to two rooms. It was enough to see the fresh meat as and when it rolled in though. Each branded with a shiny handcuff, and then their disarmament. One by one, their clothes, their beliefs, their heaven or hell, everything-stripped off. You could only hear faint sobs at night that could be innocent grievances. Silence, however, felt thicker."LIGHTS OUT", then the faint quivers of new cell mates, the expected thrum of a stick, and then the silence again. article by Shreya Vatsa