Your move, Girls!
Riding a micro bus on my way to Ratna Park, I looked through the window and saw the wide open ground of Tundikhel. My eyes saw many people playing cricket and football, but my mind noticed something different. There were tall boys, short boys, fat boys, thin boys, young boys, old boys and so on, but not even a single girl was to be seen. I moved my eyes here and there, from one corner of that plain ground to another, but I could see nobody except boys. The place looked like a “girl-free zone” to me. It’s quite astonishing how the female population outnumbers the male population in our country, but in the context of people being in the public sphere, the male population has always been higher. Women have been given a 33 percent quota, still we find girls lagging behind in the public sphere. It may be because of our own perception too. For example, when we are riding a bus being driven by a woman, we think that she is very courageous and amazing. But when we see a woman driving a car,...