{"id":24,"date":"2020-07-31T06:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayankitasdiary.co.in\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2020-08-09T00:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T00:05:53","slug":"the-new-umoma-opens-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mayankitasdiary.co.in\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Mayankita’s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mayankita\u2019s Diary is about Mayankita, the lead character in all the stories narrated here. Mayankita represents all the women whose struggles in the \u2018journey of being a woman\u2019 have inspired me to write about them. Each story is like a narration of a page (or a few pages) from her diary (or a narration of a significant part of her life as understood by me). This person can be any woman- you, me, or any other woman from our neighbourhood or our lives. The only thing that qualifies her presence here is \u201cHer struggles in the journey of being a Woman\u201d.<\/strong> I have tried to narrate the stories with the emotions felt by Mayankita in her journey, and I hope my readers are able to experience these from Mayankita\u2019s perspective without being judgemental about the choices she made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Derived from Sanskrit origin words \u201cMayank<\/em>\u201d meaning \u201cMoon\u201d and \u201cAnkit<\/em>a\u201d meaning \u201cone that is inscribed or marked for prominence\u201d, \u201cMayankita\u201d means \u201cMoonlight\u201d. She exists because there is a Moon out there. However, looking at Mayankita\u2019s journey from a woman\u2019s perspective, I take Mayankita to be much more than \u2018just moonlight\u2019. I also see her as the reason behind \u201cMayank\u2019s\u201d brightness that the world sees. Her presence makes him beautiful and complete. While there can be no \u201cMayankita\u201d without \u201cMayank\u201d, \u201cMayank\u201d will also cease to be visible without \u201cMayankita\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I selected this name \u201cMayankita\u201d for my lead character because all my stories here are about the struggles of being a woman, with or without the \u201cMayanks\u201d of their lives. Their journeys may not have got them name, fame, awards, or achievements that the world could see but their struggles to claim their own little skies in their own different ways are worth learning from. Some of these women had to break free, and some, like the moonlight, stood behind their men, complementing their lives, supporting them in their journey, to make them what they could become in this lifetime. Whichever role they played, and whatever the result of their struggle was, to me their experiences are worth reflecting and discussing, if we look forward to a better world for women around us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are all real-life stories, a version narrated on behalf of these Mayankitas, from my perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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