Sir,
This has reference to the news item, “J&K gets first woman bus driver”, DE Dec 29,2020. I too appreciate the lady bus driver of our J&K UT, but we must not overlook many of our local and particularly nomadic females commercially driving horse carts on roads to sell milk, vegetables and transporting fodder etc. Besides, all our other girls and ladies driving daily scooties, bikes and cars carrying families and parents etc.
Ladies, nowadays, also are on borders guarding the country, helping in interior security, piloting Rafale fighter aircraft etc. Rather it is insult to lady folk to say lady is doing this or that. Both males and females are doing interchangeable daily chores. We see males preparing foods in all banquets, restaurants, hotels. Males are washing in laundries. So preparing food or washing clothes or driving vehicles or piloting aircrats, or guarding borders is now unisex and not a thing for a particular gender. Anyway our lady bus driver Pooja Devi deserves all moral support but must not be out of proportion.
Rami Pandotra
Jammu
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