What women want? That’s a difficult one. Men would surely agree with this. But this group of women from Chembur just wanted to have a blast on the one day they call their own, writes Kamiya Mohan Jani.
Nor a bright afternoon lunch nor a late night dinner, this bunch of
women decided to catch up with their friends for some evening snacks
and have a blast. Taking an off from their daily chores a group of
women decided to celebrate Women’s Day at a renowned club in Chembur.
“Like our birthday or our anniversary, even this day is really
special for us and we are celebrating it just that way. We feel it’s
our birthday,” says Manju Madan.
Women and their television sets ar
e best friends; this is a known
fact to everybody. Hence, Meena Lamba, one of the friends, had arranged
games, wherein slogans of advertisements were shown and the women had
to guess the product. Similarly, she had written all the characters
name of a particular TV serial, and they had to guess the name of the
soap in which these characters acted. “I thought this game would be
different and my friends would really enjoy it,” informed Lamba.
Many working women had taken a day off from their routine life to
enjoy this special day. Like Nisha Vazirani, a resident of Navjeevan
Society, Chembur, who is working with Films Division Ltd, left her work
aside to gift a day to herself and her friends. “I have been excited
about this day since a long time and have been discussing it with my
colleagues. We must definitely dedicate at least a day to ourselves
every year,” exclaims Nisha. The women also got a cake and relished it
to the core.
When questioned whether that was their ideal way of celebrating
women’s day or they would have preferred celebrating it with their
husbands, opinions differed. While some felt that they could always
celebrate with their spouses, having a blast with their friends was
unusual and fun. Meena Jethwani, a resident of Luv-Kush Apartment,
Sindhi Society, says, “An ideal women’s day would be celebrating it
with your friends in the evening and going out for dinner with your
husband.”
Some banks in the area celebrated this day by greeting their female
clients with roses. “I felt so nice when I was presented a lovely rose
and I was pampered with Mehendi on my hands. It felt great to be a
Woman. It was very thoughtful of my bank staff to do this.”
Well as we left the women continued to rock the party till evening.