Nonchalant about March 8

Perhaps I'm losing my mojo. It was International Women's Day on Tuesday and I got no attention from the womenfolk

Perhaps I'm losing my mojo. It was International Women's Day on Tuesday and I got no attention from the womenfolk, (barring the inbox full of press invites ranging from middle aged botox using forward and liberated women socialite clubs to sarkari invitations commemorating centenary celebrations of the fateful day).

Don't we invite women over to guzzle kegs of beer and entertain them with derriere, driving skills and 'how many women does it take to change a bulb?' jokes on International Men's Day on 19 November? (Yes brothers, there is indeed such a day which tries restoring some gender balance). Then why didn't they return the favour on Tuesday? I was utterly lost and after finishing work had no idea how to spend the rest of the day.

Since the year started till the Women's Day, we have already stocked a pile of 73 molestation and 42 cases

Now many countries around the world, from Afghanistan to Zambia celebrate the day with an official holiday.

So perhaps my Afghani counterpart spent the day at home getting high on opium and beating up his wife to display his attentiveness towards her. And maybe, the Zambian guy did the same thing since the Zambia Demographic and Health Survey shows that 85 per cent women and 69 per cent men in the country believed that a husband is justified in beating his wife for at least one reason.

Though I know for sure what this yet to be identified young guy in my city did on the day. He went ahead and shot down a Delhi University student point blank when she was getting off a foot-over bridge. But I'm not sure he chose the day intentionally and it holds any significance to him. After all, we mete out this kind of treatment the year round. We molest at least one woman every day, so since the year started till the International Women's Day we have already stocked a pile of 73 molestation and 42 cases.

Now I could have taken this 'yet to be identified guy's cue and done something similar to hog attention. Possibly I could have raided a pub and insisted loose, characterless, off sleeve and jeans wearing women to pay heed. Maybe I could have dropped into a bar and demanded the bartenders' attention or a drink and shot her in the end.

But then isn't that sexist, chauvinist, misogynous, biased and emotionally, socially challenged men in this city do? I am but a decent, common man in this city trying to make an honest living like you and every body else. So like you and everybody else, I did nothing on that day. Like we always do!

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