07 Mar 2011|Noida | Amity University Campus, Sector-125 Noida
Street Act on Human Values Quarter – Women Empowerment by AITTM
Indian women have come of age since last 10 to 15 years. If we go back to the pre- independence period women in India had to go through a great deal of discrimination and go through inhuman practices such as Sati. They were sort of a puppet in the hands of their father before marriage and husbands after the marriage, so as to produce children and look after them, cook, clean and restricted to the household. They were living in social system which is dominated by male and depended on female subordination. Females were never given any freedom to do anything on their own, they were not even allowed to think independently or even express themselves. Now after so many years the condition of women in our society is improving and lots of importance is being given to women empowerment, their development and education.
The students of AITTM, batch 2010-2014, performed a play on Human Values depicting the condition of women in a patriarchal society, and the crimes being committed against them. The play throws a light on the hardships that a woman has to go though her lifetime and highlighted issues such as domestic violence, women’s education and gender discrimination. The play is about a girl who aspires to be a doctor but her father refuses to fund her education just because she was a girl child and treats her like a burden and gets her married at a very young age even thought she wants to study. She is continuously deprived of all her rights and is ill treated even after marriage and decides to break free from rotten customs of this society.
Participants
Directors: Arpita Grewal and Monica Patnaik
Actors:
Nazim and Neeti (narrators)
Aishna (lead-daughter)
Aditya Mathur(brother)
Adarsh Sinha (father)
Soumya Agarwal (mother)
Gautam (friend)
Astha saxena (grandmother)
Prakhar Rastogi (husband)
Vinci Khurana (mother in law)
Abhimanyu (father in law)
Volunteers: Ankit, Sagar, Saurabh, Subhro