Kusum Choppra

Yesterday, on Facebook, I saw a sentence that struck a chord in me. “No matter what the situation is, Remind yourself       ‘I have a choice’” This sentence resonated with me as that is sounds exactly the spirit of my forthcoming anthology titled   NIRBHAYA & OTHERS WHO DARED. It tells the stories of women who make their choices, good, bad or indifferent and dare to lead their lives in their own way;  the stories of innumerable relationships --- those that women have with themselves and each other, with husbands, brothers, sauts, jamais, sisters, lovers, fathers, offspring, colleagues …. You name the relationship and you have it. What it boils down to is thinking out of the box and making a choice to live Life

Has anyone ever wondered why women are missing from humor when they have made their presence felt in every other field of human endeavour? We have had women heading our country;there are topnotch police women, writers, artists, administrators, stock brokers, business women etc etc etc. but we have yet to come up with a woman who can make fun of husbands, on the stage as easily as our army of "hasya kavis" make fun of women, especially wives on any and every public platform. It is quite immaterial whether the ocassion is a laughter competetion, a hasya kavi sammelan or a social gathering. The male of the species will find every excuse to poke fun at his better half, glamorous or otherwise. The few women who take the stage at mushiaras talk of everything under the sun; but none of them have ever picked up the gauntlet to give back to the males their unholy ribbing. WHY?