Hauz Khas- ‘A Historical Heritage or Selfie Point?

Crumbling places, picturesque lakes, Islamic seminary, a mosque, medieval tombs, hidden rooms and iconic and the impressive architecture of historic buildings are some of the best places you would find in Hauz Khas.  The stories and legends behind this heritage are drastically stupendous. But, the main thing is that people don’t want to know the story behind this.

And now, Hauz khas has become a selfie point because now people come here with their friends and family spend their lovely time but most of them are only interested in taking selfies and don’t want to explore this historical place.

Actually, last week I went to Hauz-Khas to see the historical places for which it was basically known for. When I entered  I saw a board where it was written about ‘The lake, and how Hauz-khas’ got its name? After going through all the things written on the board, I came to know the whole story of Hauz-Khas. However, I studied history of Alauddin Khalji in school time but, I didn’t remember it at all at that time.

On the other hand, I noticed many people never wanted to see heritage and they were only interested in taking selfies in different poses like changing their hairstyle to get an amazing picture. Clicking pics is good thing but I wish every people should enjoy the beautiful heritage and know how Alauddin khalji made this beautiful structure. Many caves and underground jail structured rooms made at that time look horrible but people never understand its value, in fact, they make walls of the heritage grubby.

That day, I saw plenty of foreign tourists who were only busy in taking pictures of monument and they understood its value. Even, their guide told the value of this building how Alauddin khalji spend time and made wall. So, according to me, outside people or tourists understand our historical values but why Indian tourists never understand the value of their own heritage. They write names like laila, majnu and make the heritage dirty. Is this a good thing? Even foreign tourists are keen to take monument pictures and don’t take their own photos or selfies.

We also took a lot of selfies and pictures and we got tired because Hauz-khas is very enormous heritage and there are beaches, gardens, bars, and tons of other things. And so we got tired and decided to take some rest.

Most probably, people take their own selfie and we noticed it. But the good moment was that when we saw people making funny poses and capturing selfies with different hair style and pouts.

However, we enjoyed extensively and took selfies with historical monuments and also saw many natural things like bats sleeping on trees, which was my first experience. It looked a little horrible but the astonishing and plentiful pigeons were flying here and there. I think everyone must visit Hauz Khas once, not just to take selfies but also to enjoyed natural beauty of heritage and understand ‘how a great king made this wonderful architecture’.

Eventually, I took a lot of pictures of Hauz-Khas lake, monuments, and architecture but One thing that was missing was that there were no ladders to go nearby the lake but the connection between building and lake is so good that it can be seen from the room of Alauddin khalji.

Everyday is women’s day- Happy women’s day 2019

Everyday is women’s day- Happy women’s day 2019

The main focal point of International women’s day is women’s right. This is the day to celebrate womanhood. I hope everyone knows the history so, we don’t need to go back more than a decade on February 28, 1909. I am going to tell you about the woman’s right that a woman has or hasn’t, women’s empowerment, women’s equality, women's independence, women’s freedom etc. As you know, woman’s day is to celebrate women's empowerment and is the day to protest for the women’s rights especially against society.

Mainly, a woman plays many roles in her life, as a daughter, a wife, a sister, and the most important role is of a mother. Each and every woman has to take care of her family, brother & sister, a husband, daughter/ son and in-laws. She takes all responsibility with sincerity. At this women’s Day, Google made a doodle which was dedicated to all women. The Doodle had 11 beautiful quotes with colourful images of 11 dialogue boxes with the word "woman" written in 11 languages, including Hindi and Bengali.

Everyone of us must have seen the movie ‘Pink’ which was based on how a girl is judged by coming home at late night, with their friends, boyfriends and plenty of other things which people used to judge them by. A woman is judged in office, home, school, and collages, why? This is an important question. Women are the trending topic everyone wants to talk in society and social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Everyone tells that the generation is changed but how far? Even, everyone knows that without women world is nothing?

A woman can't take her own decisions even in the 21st century because of the fear of society. Still today, she is not allowed to do what she wants. You can see in social media, many people posts related to women’s rights or empowerment and talk about their freedom philosophy but this is only limited to this one day in a whole year and after that they forget everything..

The next day, they start with the same thing against the woman and talk about her dresses what she wears and what she should wear? But who are they to discuss and tell about what a woman should wear or not? So, I would just like to say that, please stop these nonsense now. We don’t want to be treated like goddess, we only want respect, gender equality and live our lives on our own terms and take our own decisions.   

Therefore, don’t judge us by our clothes and just give us a life where we can take our own decisions. So, Happy women’s day, celebrate this day with your family, friends, and colleagues and let’s bring a change in this society.