WOMEN SELP HELP GROUP

                                          By : Lila Bannerjee

L I L A  B A N N E R J E E

In our state the deed to form self help group has greatly been given importance. though this work is not running equally in all over the state,the number of this group is more than about five lack.this number is gradually increasing.Different Goverment sector,bank co-operatrive society and countless of charitable organisations are helping directly to form this group.mostly these group are women.The man of poor families specially the women,are becoming able to chanse their family status through forming these self help groups.Those are givien below-
personal saving account will be formed.
you saving is kept safely.
you can money from it for your precaution.
you can know the facilities of Govt. to be in group.
you are becoming aware of various subject.
you can collect capital to set in a business.
we have to fight against social evil in group.
you indentify will be changed in your family and in your society.Self cofident of the poor woman is increasing and thus want to participate in the effort of development.
                              Some obstructe problem : -
1. Member will be informed of the opportunities of the governental and private organisation .
2. Group can not solve large scale of social problem.
3. Some difficulties arriseto form this grip individual can not solve it.
4. Head of more money can not be satisfied.
5. A group can not like with bank of insurance company.
                           
                                            If many do not unite profit can not be got i big enterprise . Specially, problem arise in collecting raw material. Infructual facility can be got. We have to co operate with each other.

Dowry: A Social Disease by- Aindrila Guha

Aindrila Guha

The custom of giving and receiving dowry is happening due to the double standard of our society, comprise a group of beggar, shameless and mentally sick public wear the dress of educated, intellectual human beings. Dowry is a dangerous disease, no doctor would prescribe any medicine for recovery.  Parents do not want their marital daughters to be return to their parental homes, so that they have to pay for this, valuable properties, money in consideration of marriage and use to force their own blood to adjust with monster in-laws and husband. Till 2010, ( Maldah Dist : Sulekha Biwi Murder Case, suspects are husband and father-in-law due to the dowry demand 11.11.10). There are no adoption of progressive line of thinking. Only amendments of laws, bomb-blasting speeches of our opinion leaders and so called woman development and woman liberalization organizations are not enough to eradicate the "Dowry system" a social disease from India. What about actual work? I am neither talking about “Rally”, “Rasta Roko” or commencement of any “Morcha” nor even any parliamentarian fight about the statistics of dowry victim. It is the high time to blow on the sand barrage of our social structure & old traditions, bring out the reality of dominance regarding a wife as a husband’s property. This is not an honour for husbands, it’s proving their impotence. Is this a progressive India? Here brides are seemed to be transferred from their parental family to their marital family and use to burn or commit suicide and face violence due to dowry demand and side by side we the Indians feeling proud to be a modern human being of Third World Country. Foreign adoption does not address the modernity, social structure, custom, culture, literacy , mentality defines modernity. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and many other state of India still facing the dowry disease and we could not find out  rapid  protest. It's the evidence of  how much backboneless the society is.  Protests exist here but after the death of dowry victim. What kind of society is this? Who the hell those in-laws can demand dowry? They don’t have any right over their daughter-in -laws . First of all our backboneless, society has to understand this. Dowry leads to another crime such as female foeticide.

Dowry Victim
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                                                                   It’s the fault of our social structure, fault of the parents of daughters. If each and everyone protest to fulfill dowry demand , we can eradicate this disease. It’s upon the Girls’; they have to be strong, don't need to compromise with their self respect. Remember it we are not the dolls of our fathers, brothers, husbands, in-laws or even sons. Education for every girl and self dependence can stop this dowry demand and to acheive this  parents of daughters have to be co-operative with their own blood. Employment for every woman is essential. Marriage is only a ritual; a religious bond ; don’t try to  make it compromise or sacrifice for your own girl. And if you think so, then you have to shame on yourselves. No adjustment , No compromise , No sacrifice.Either victory or Loss  which means  compete or die.

The Girls' who commit suicide or want to commit, they have to remember this, that the impotent society does not deserve their sacrifice not even their family members, husband and even those, whom they used to love. It is only our fight, we are alone, and we have to fight for equal right. Without this any declaration of such International  Women's Day  is useless in charecter.No reservation, no sex discrimination , only equal status  for women in every sphere of life with that of men have to be grant.

                 

Sky-Line for Indian Lady

BY -Debapriya Ghosh

Durba Banerjee, the first woman pilot in Indian aviation history, started her career flying a Dakota as an Air Survey pilot in 1959. She joined Indian Air Lines in 1966.

Padma Bandyopadhyay is First woman Air Vice Marshal to IAF in 2002. She is also engaged in under mentioned designation………………………
1. First woman officer to complete the Defence Services Staff College course in 1978 and to command IAF’s Central Medical Establishment.
2.First woman to qualify as an aviation medicine specialist.
3. First Indian to go to North Pole as part of an Indo-Russian project in 1989-90 to evaluate physiological and psychological problems associated with extremely cold temperature.
4. First woman officer to be awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM).

Capt.(Ms) Chameli Keottapalli has become the first lady commander of Air India Express.

In 1988, Captain Saudamini Deshmukh became the first Indian woman captain to command a Boeing 737. She also became the first Indian woman to command the Airbus A320 in 1994. Capt Deshmukh joined erstwhile Indian Airlines in 1980 as a co-pilot on the Fokker F27 Friendship turboprop aircraft.

The mighty IL-76 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force will have a woman for the first time in its cockpit. Squadron leader Veena Saharan has become the first woman.

 Flying Officer Gunjan Saxena:First indian woman to fly in war zone of kargil in 1999 . Flying Officer Gunjan Saxena is among the few women pilots in the IAF. Saxena was the first Woman IAF Officer to fly in a Combat Zone when she took part in the Kargil conflict, co-pilot to fly the aircraft breaking yet another gender barrier.

Stereotype representation of women in media

 BY- PRIYAM BASU THAKUR

The fall of communism in USSR & East European countries &  the emergence of USA with the principle of globalization-liberalization-privatization caused a big change in economy. Newspapers of India were confined between local or national level before the starting of Foreign Direct Investment. With the rapid growth of Information Technology Internet, satellite cable TV boom, digital communication spread over the world. In the age of convergence industry people considered news as a commodity. Now-a-days media is a lucrative business not only for public service. In this reason developmental news grab less attention by the editors. 

        

Women are a larger part of our society & the media is a mirror of society. But in this case we can not find so many women issues in media. Editors consider women oriented news as “soft issues”. This fact is proved when a 17 year old tribal girl compelled to walk naked for almost 8 km. in a village of Birbhum district in West Bengal for the punishment of loving a boy of another community & mainstream media remain silent than other issues like fashion shows & so on. Women oriented pages in newspapers almost full with fashion, beauty tips, cuisine & many such materials. The mega serial’s of entertainment channels draw two type of women. One is full of family values, selfless, great. Another type is selfish, rude. Those well-dressed women of TV serials have no work to do & they were always busy in criticizing other family members. This is one type of insult of viewers intellect & emotion by previewing woman’s contribution in family in this manner. There is no event upon women’s health, laws etc. Joshi committee (1982-84) opines that “Doordarshan is at present dominated by feature films and film based programmes that exploit the female form to titillate and/ or through their socially insensitive approach simply trivialize and debase the image of womanhood.”

If media play his social role women movement can spread the every corner of the world. Feminist movement can convert into humanist movement which is impossible in contemporary situation.                  

WOMEN IN ADVERTISIMENT

                    

                 by : Somnath Ghosh

Women bodies are  using for selling goods. We can see  the picture of sexual appeal of woman body in most of  the advertisement, such as Computer, Soap, Deodorant, even Shoes. For example we can take the popular known beauty soap Where the famous Bollywood actors are used to show the beauty of  their body for the huge sell of advertisers . Soaps are useful for the protection of the body from harmful virus and this illustration is enough  for selling the  soap. But for the popularity of the advertisement women body are displaing vastly into the bath-tubs as because  we the illitarate people  don't know how  to use a soap. It is a hardcore matter  that the sexual need is universal truth but advertisers are abusing this needs  of human being by showing obscene ads.

In a advertisement of saving cream or after safe lotion   (used by man) we used to see a women who is touching the saved area of the man’s check. And without this the intellectual human being failed to recognise  the advantages of those products.

Deodorants ( man) are keeping the  freshness of the body but here also women appearance is very much vital. Because utility of the deodorant must  received profit through the sexual appeal of the woman body. Woman must have to feels attraction in the man who are using the deodorant and only after this the company will gain the success of the advertisement.

Today advertisement according to ad maker Tapan Das any publicity is a good publicity. Corers of Rupees are involving in ad world and for the profit advertiser have to use woman beauty.

According to me advertisements are loosing its creativity.