Javed Akhtar said – Strong woman means one who takes her own decisions: There should be such lessons in our schools in which children can learn gender equality.

Javed says- Mother should be respected. It should definitely happen. Then the question is whether my children’s mother should be equally respected or not?

When I read in the newspaper that a girl was tortured or burnt in a house, I hate her parents. It seems that this girl was not burnt by her father-in-law, mother-in-law and sister-in-law, but by her parents. What kind of girl did you raise that she got burnt?

Society does not show the same collective reaction to violence against women over the years, as it is shocked when a woman’s name comes up in the murder of a man. Women follow more religions than men, yet there is something ‘anti-woman’ in every religion of the world.

Society considers women secondary. Therefore, there should be such lessons in our syllabus from beginning till class 12 where children know what gender equality is.

Don’t glorify women, consider them as human beings. In every religion the wife has been taken in the role of a companion. You are teaching all this to children and then say that we want equality. Will this bring equality to the next generation?

Whereas the status that women have achieved is not because of religion, but in spite of it. In my understanding, a strong woman is not one who is seen just rebelling, but one who can take her own decisions in her life and live with self-respect.

In a society where a common child talks only to his mother and sister till the age of 20-22, and does not understand any other girl deeply, for him the girl would not be a human being, but something strange, whom he keeps watching from a distance. We have to leave this and create a healthy society. This can be done only through education. Where man and woman, child and girl, boy and girl are considered equal. They should not be worshipped, rather they should be friends with them.

I believe that whether a man or a woman, their clothes should be respectable. If a man comes to office or college wearing shorts, sleeveless t-shirt then it is not a good thing. He should be well dressed. A woman should also be like this, but why does she need to cover her face? What is so indecent, indecent and undignified about his face? This is peer pressure.

If she says that I am doing it willingly then she is brainwashed because she believes that there is someone who will appreciate her decision. Why would she cover her face if you leave her free! Does he hate his face?

In China, as soon as the chick hatches from the egg, it is placed in a wooden case. Feed him dry fruits. He starts getting fat and one day gets entangled in that case. Then they take out the chick and keep it in a big case.

A chick is never able to move in its life. It moves from one case to a bigger case. When it is cooked it has no bones. We are raising our daughters like this. The bones of daughters are not allowed to be formed. What will happen if she doesn’t get burnt?

You say- Daughter, now you are going to someone else’s house. Now you have become a stranger. But I will teach my daughter that if there is even the slightest problem, come immediately. Don’t respect a woman just because she is your mother; Respect him because he is a human being.

I have come to an interesting conclusion regarding the position of mother in society and it is perhaps completely contrary to popular belief. In fact, in a society where there is a lot of glorification of mothers, I think there is a serious problem in the attitude of men there.

It is said – Mother should be worshipped, heaven lies beneath her feet, mother is a goddess, she is worshipable. But just think, which woman is not worthy of worship? Who is the woman under whose feet heaven is said? The same one, who incidentally is my mother. But what about the woman who is not my mother, but someone else’s mother, or my wife?

It is said that mother should be respected. It should definitely happen. Then the question is whether my children’s mother should also be respected equally or not? Just think, my mother was the same person even before I was born. I was born on 17th January. Was she not worthy of respect till January 16?

And on January 17, just because I was born, she suddenly became respectable? Is their respect because of me? Don’t respect a woman just because she is your mother; Respect him because he is a human being.

(Editing and coordination- Arvind Mandloi)