A few days ago while I was gazing newspaper cursorily, my eyes were stuck on a headline “India among the top 10 economies of the world.” It increased my curiosity to read the news further and I found a few names floating in that paragraph which often buzz in my ears ever since I gained my conscience. It isn’t new to me or either to you who pay ear to newspapers and channels. Some well-known pictures of some eminent businessman pop on the screen of the television and the entire mass rejoice as if they are the custodians of his wealth.

Likewise, a new concept of the most powerful women is being released nowadays. It is branded as a woman in Fortune. A handful of corporate women or from affluent family features and hereby they celebrate the empowerment of all women in a pompous gathering organized by billionaires of this world. But my mind does not testify it as real empowerment. However I am no one to challenge the norms formulated by those eminent people but still, I stand with the view that the jury who select these women should once visit rural places, and if not, they must witness the dexterity of those housewives who handle their household work with a limited amount of money without any treachery involved in it as business tycoon do often to maintain their balance sheet.

The facts point out that 68 percent of Indian lives in the rural vicinity and their main source of income is agriculture which is dependent on many factors. I have also seen those women admitted to Government hospitals crying extremely because of labor pain and still enjoying their motherhood without any maternity leave, whereas those Fortuned featured women who are made of the same flesh and bone often end in separation from their child and husband. Fortune magazine jury members must land in those remote villages where women drape their children on their backs under scorching heat and work as daily wage laborers to earn their bread and butter. Before coming to any conclusion they must see the struggle of those women who use sand and soil to decorate themselves working in brick kilns and combating the exploitation by owners. These hardships if considered less, the jury must again watch their skills in taking their grains from PDS shops. I don’t know the criterion of how FORTUNE Magazine decides the most powerful women categories list.
 

But I can only suggest that once bring an article over those unprivileged women who braces nearly all the evils of society and still when asked, How are you? A pretty alluring smile comes to her face saying everything is fine. In spite of focusing on those who dwell in every easement still feel the world is an unsafe place for women.