Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, March 4: The Department of English in association with the Cultural Cell of Srinath University in Adityapur, celebrated International Working Women’s Day. The programmes presented in the forms of songs, dances, speeches and poetry recitations highlighted how women emerged from the status of homemakers to all other areas of activity hitherto regarded as male domain. The celebrations included motivational facets aimed at encouraging women to carve their own niche of activities that suited them to surge ahead in professional fields.
Women’s Day is commemorated to salute the struggles of women and put forward their voice so that they may realize their potential as individuals beyond the confines of their household responsibilities.
Chief guest Chanda Devi and special guest Sandhya Mahto the co-founder of Sandhya-Shambhu Educational Trust along with other dignitaries inaugurated the Women’s Day celebrations amidst recitation of Vedic Slokas by the University students.
The inaugural dance was themed on the varied talents of women that were enabling them to set their hallmark on their fields of pursuit. Sonali Kar, a postgraduate student of English recited a poem on how women, in spite of the stamp of modernity, were still being subjugated in society.
Students of the Department of English presented a dance-drama showing the struggles of women in different realms of life– from home to street to office and how they fight back with a little push of inspiration.
The Dean of Students Welfare, Rachna Rashmi delivered a speech focusing on the strengths of women. “Being a mother and rearing children in the midst of household chores requires a sense of responsibility, grit and determination and that is the crux of unbeatable will power. If a woman wants to emerge out opf her home-shell, she can do it and that is what her ilk has done. They have emerged in tandem with their male counterparts in all professional walks of life including space technology and defense services,” she observed during her talk.
English Department’s Prasenjit Mahto recited a poem on the torture the women are made to undergo in routine course while Satyam’s recitation decried female feticide
Vice Chancellor of Srinath University, Dr Gobind Mahato motivated women to break the social shackles and make their name on their own merit. He advised women to recognize their potential instead of brooding over and resigning to life in the confines of home and household chores. The vote of thanks was delivered by PG Department of english student Priya Bharti.
