In the world where we always repeat that woman is the ideal example of beauty, perfection and admiration, being witness with something totally contrary of this makes you feel pity! Initial days of my journalistic career in India , I didn't draw that much attention to the places of construction over the streets and people working there as they mostly were with covered face and in long conventional clothes. Today , to my great astonishment, every single day I come across a building under construction with women laborers lugging cement or other raw materials over their head.In every area you can be evidence of these “miserable scenes”: woman climbing the scaffoldings with the bricks, carrying soil,sand on their heads, lifting heavy cement bags bricks ...other heavy loads, digging earth, mixing cement, breaking stones. Unable to speak a word! What to say? The thing that making me get shocke...
“The job of a journalist is to amplify the voices of the marginalized. To do that, you have to hear those voices in the first place.”