Captain Divya Ajith Kumar, Inspiring Women To Join The Armed Forces. Women have been called queens for a long time but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling. Misogyny, sexual harassment, verbal and physical violence and gender bias is a way of life for even India’s women of privilege. But for decades women have found a simple way to keep themselves and others afloat during difficult times: the power of advice.
These are all objects. Women have turned pretence into an art form. Learn to say no. No is a complete sentence. Never take advice from someone with bad eyebrows. When you are presented with opportunities lean in, but always say yes please, because now you are smart enough to be grateful. If you can read this consider yourself lucky. Give back. There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women. Create something: a garden, a painting, a baby, a legacy. Leave behind some proof you existed. Try to meet people in person. Be tactile.
Be silly. Stop hiding behind the internet. Stop hiding in general. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Cultivate nonconformity and insouciance. When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. Have some ambition, learn courage. Most of the time tears are pointless. Be financially independent so that you love only for love. Accept the ageing process by simply considering the alternative. Don’t have any kind of operation that makes you look like a doll or a statue or a duck. Worklife balance is an urban myth. As she show so well, being a woman is a nice job, if you can get it.
Because she’s a pioneer and led an all-woman contingent of 154 women officers and cadets of the Indian Army this Republic Day. While women officers have been participating in previous Republic Day parades, this was the first time that an all-women’s contingent of the armed forces marched down Rajpath.
Because she created history as the first woman Army cadet to have been awarded the prestigious ‘Sword of Honour’ at the passing out parade of the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai in 2010. A total of 244 cadets, including 63 women, passed out of the OTA that year.
Because she wants more women to join the Army. Although she now teaches at Officers Training Academy in Chennai she travels to schools and colleges to talk to students and inspire them to consider a life serving the nation by choosing a career in the Armed Forces.
Source: indiatoday.intoday.in
