Festival of colours

8th march 2012, its festival of colours being celebrated in the Indian subcontinent and wherever Indians are. this year coinciding on the woman's day. festival of colour celebrating the colours of life in form of women.




What colours will be there when there would have been no women ? 
( speculation, let it not to be). 

As a child the first colour i saw was that of my mother, pure, radiating, selfless,

and instantly i was painted in her colour.

When my sister was born, i was again painted wit hues of colours, colours of arguments, ego, fights, quarrels and love.

I fell in love, and i still am painted in her colour, deep inside. purest, sacrificing, wanting, waiting, weeping, crying ,  loving, hugging, smiling with her eyes.

My first child, most beautiful daughter, my baby girl I've seen was born, she painted me in her colour. amazing.

There were and are many friends from fairer sex who were there always painting me in their colours.

Then there were my grandmother's, both looking down on me from their abode in heaven, still showering their love, I miss them, But, today i tell them loud that yes i am coloured in some colours you wanted me to have.

Then there was this brave young widowed mother, a queen, who has coloured me in a different manner, as she did to the Indians leading upfront in the first war of independence, way back in 1857, and felling on the battlefield along with her female afghan bodyguards. Queen Laxmi Bai, i salute you, not for bravery you showed, or your valour, or your charisma that made your opposition running coward. but as a composite example of accumulated hues of all colours associated with women.

I happened to hear Mother Teresa @Jabalpur when i was very young, i could not make out much of it then, but today i  have some colour of her WHITES.

There were many women who time and again have proved themselves. Innumerable examples of colours , in all hues, shades and radiance.

i thank all women of the world, those happily married after types, those still waiting, those doing what they love to do, those who are doing what is expected them to do without complaining. 

i pray for the welfare of those women who are unsafe, in any condition. May Almighty help them best. 

On the contrary, i have nothing to say to those women who shed their womanhood and went astray, let there be light for you.

I thank you all who have painted me in the colour i am today. and i love you all in the same manner as i did yesterday or day before or years before. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL.

wish you a happy festival of colours. and a happy women's day.