Who is the first feminist figure in the history of India? For me it will always be Queen Sita. The woman, who willingly followed her husband into exile by giving up her comforts, brought her children up as a single mother and finally walked out on Lord Ram to live a life free of troubles and injustices.
For me, she epitomises the quintessential and long suffering Indian woman who represents resilience and patience.
Here is an attempt to read into her thoughts at various stages of her life. And I have picked the episode where she is banished to the forest and this time she is pregnant and she is alone.
Here is an attempt to read into her thoughts at various stages of her life. And I have picked the episode where she is banished to the forest and this time she is pregnant and she is alone.
What could have been Sita’s thoughts in those moments of despair?
“Ram,” Sita thought as she walked
out of the palace and
out of his life,
“you walked over mountains,
crossed the seas,
and vanquished the demons to
bring me home.”
“Yet you could no more conquer
the demon in your mind than you
could an elusive deer
of the mystical Vindhyas.
And today you banish me
to the forest, you,
a ‘Purushottam’, best among men,
are nothing but a slave
to your immature thoughts.”
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