Daughters Bring Luck
Sanjeev Kumar
Associate Professor,
Dept. of English, B.R. Ambedkar College, Delhi University
I
n this write up, I wish to share the lesson that I have
learnt from my personal experience. It is quite unfortu
nate that majority of us still believe that ‘girls’ are no
‘boon’ but a ‘curse.’
used to live in a rented house. For me, things were really
tough – neither a job nor a house of my own. I remember
that there was hardly any college in Delhi where I had not
applied or faced an interview but my luck always betrayed
me.
I remember those days when after having done my M.A. in
English Literature with first division, I enrolled myself for
M.Phil at the University of Rajasthan. Out of our batch of
fifteen, I was the only one who decided to work for my
dissertation under a professor of international repute. After
that I came to Delhi and started
working as a lecturer in a DU college on ad-hoc basis.
After two years of marriage I was blessed with a daughter.
My wife had to move for the initial months to her maternal
home in Delhi. Since an air of uncertainty and bit of frustration haunted me, I tried to convince my father to let me
move to a flat in Ghaziabad
which had been allotted to him.
But he was never appreciated
this suggestion as he believed
that once I moved to Ghaziabad
I would be removed from the
hub of academic circles as well
as social circles. But he ultimately gave in to my insistence.
Meanwhile, I joined another interdisciplinary M.Phil thinking that
my chances to get absorbed in the
University would get better. Again,
I chose to work for my M.Phil dissertation under a professor who
has been considered in the academic circles across the globe as
the ‘Father of Compar ]]