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This is just a POV, a thought on why Panchali is more connectable to the woman of Kaliyuga than Sita. It just came into my mind when I was watching SKR yesterday and saw Janaki with her almost untied hair. I didn't see any helplessness in those eyes, but there was still fierceness, a will to fight, a will to hold on, a feel which Panchali so very much displays in the infamous hall of dice when she is dragged by her hair.
Yes I felt a dejavu of Panchali in Sita yesterday. A woman who will not tolerate the injustice happening to her. Her call of Raghunanadan, reflected the call of Panchali towards her husbands. Ram is not there, but the Pandavas was there yet they stood mute.
So the question came, why we can or rather I could always connect to Panchali than Sita. And I found the reason to be quite interesting. Sita is born from earth. Pure. Unadultered. Just like a new born baby. Janaka adopts the baby with all love. And in her growing up years she was in a very loving environment. Janak ki dulari, Janaki. Pride of Mithila. Maithili. And she married Ram who has great character strength. Who loved and respected his wife for what she is. In nutshell Sita had never experienced the compromise of her freewill till Ravan takes her. And when her freewill is compromised we see the fire burning in her, the anger coming to her. And from here Sita will burn, till hanuman comes with hope. And through AP and banishment where many times her freewill will take a back seat she will evolve as a woman but never losing her soul because of Ram.
Come to Panchali. Why is she born and how is she born. She is born in the fire, or rather the fire of revenge of King Drupad who wanted a son to kill Drona and Draupadi is a by product of that havan. So it is a son Drupad wants, but since he gets a daughter he accepts her and decide to have swayamvar for her to have the best disciple of Drona can be his son-in-law.
If Sita was the adorable baby for Janak, Panchali was a medium of Drupad's war with Drona. She was the product of that fire inside him. Then at every step this woman is made to compromise. She puts the varamala for Arjun, but situation makes her wife of all his 4 brothers too. And the one who she chose stands mute when it is decided to divide her among all 5.
She still goes along, but the fire of injustice or discrimination does burn in her. And infamous hall of dice becomes the last straw when her husband keeps her as a deal. Makes her a mere property to be pawned and she bursts demanding justice. Demanding her voice to be heard. Unleashes fury in the form of her untied hair. If not for Krishna Panchali would have taken everything and everyone in that fury. It is Krishna and her trust in Krishna that allows her to forgive Pandavas and give them a second chance and her anger is directed only at the real adharmi people.
Now look at the woman of present age or rather girls of present age. Is any one of us bhumija. One way or the other we have all faced the brunt of patriarchy. Indirect discrimination at home if you have a brother. If you are elder people telling your parents to pray so that the next atleast is boy child. Your education options limited because else you wont get a good groom. Post marriage your professional choices are curtailed. Marriage and motherhood imposed on you at a age when you are not ready. Your thoughts, your ambitions everything being asked to curtail because you are supposed to have none of it.
Some you listen, some you are forced to listen. But no one understands the fire that burns inside the girl of today from childhood. The fire that is capable of taking down everything with it. Good men and bad men and what to say the entire creation itself. More or less it has manifested in such form now. The fury that has been burning down ages.
It's time we woman took a journey inward. To understand the fire inside us. And instead of destroying everything like Panchali took Krishna's direction allow the men in your life who you believe deserve a second chance, be willing to give them. Direct the fire in such a way that good exists, good is taken forward, but at the same time bringing down the bad.
In a way we the girls of Kaliyug are not born from earth but more or less born from fire, fire of discrimination one way or the other.
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