May God bless you with a son

[dahiyars]

May God---

Dear Navin Gulia,

I fully agree that chapter or the sentence has a gender Bias and we should see to it that all the text Books should be gender friendly. Our Culture is full of gender Biasis. On Birth of a boy we beat a Thali and that of a girl ham Theekra Phortey Hain. Similarly we celebrate Chhat of a Boy and not the girl.
Namkaran sanskar ceremony is for boy and not girl.On birth of a girl the mother is given 5kg of desi ghee and for boy she is given 10 kg of desi ghee.
Really it is a serios matter and we should something for it.

R.S.Dahiya

 

[kabir]

How about saying, "May god bless you with twins -- a girl and a boy -- and then put a full stop after that'' ? Killing two birds (gender bias and population explosion) with a stone .

Well, on a serious note, that was a classroom full of girls of 8 std, quite well an age to understand (and might have experienced too I bet) the kind of gender bias these girls endure in their upbringing. So if my translating into "bhagwaan aapke ghar beti paida kare” brings a smile on their faces …wots the harm in that? I would go for that only regardless of what s**t the books say....

 

[ritu]

may god bless u with a healthy child.

 

[gauravgu]

One more case of Gender Discrimination

Dear friends,

I am also attaching one more document regarding Gender discrimination.
This is really a serious loophole and need to be tackled sensitively.
May be the intention of author is quiet honest while giving this text..i mean may be author did not include this stuff deliberately..
Anyhow the point is that we need to seriously look into it before it is too late..

Regards,

Gaurav Gulia

 

[dahiyars]

May God bless

Dear Gaurav Gulia

Very True.Rag rag mai Gender Bias bharya Sai. We should do something.

R.S.Dahiya

 

[navingulia]

Deshwal Bhaisaab, Any progress?
Can we have this correction made?

Or will it end where it began? - a trivial issue

 

[ramksehrawat]

I totally agree... I would have done the same!

The book depicts the typical Indian mentality. Wrong translation is no answer. I think to neutralise the effect the teacher could give further examples by replacing the word 'son' with daughter and child.

Poonam and Satyeshwar's comments reminded me of a true incident in a village. It so happened that one day the English teacher was on leave and the PTI was asked to take control of the class during English period. The PTI went to the class and in a fit of boast told the kids: "arre angreji ki kitab kadh lyo" and told one of the boys to read from a lesson (which was about how a child averts a railway accidents with his red shirt). After a while when the students had completed the first para, the PTI said "arr kise ki samajh me kime nah aya ho to boojh liyo". A student got up and asked: "Masterji, shirt mane ke ho sai". Master ki halat kharab hogi, thodi der to saans na aayi, pher chhore dhore gaya aur uke ek kham kha eh dhar diya aur bolya: "arre nalayak, shirt mane bhi na bera, baith jya shirt mane chaadar ho sai".