Shepard's unfulfilled dream!

- Seminar of Parijat: Dr. Kumarapala Desai

- For seven years in a row, it has rocked the whole of New Zealand for women's suffrage. In public meetings, she enthusiastically made her demands

Exactly 15 years ago today, on September 19, 19, as a result of the massive women's movement, New Zealand became the first independent country in the world to give women the right to vote in the Lok Sabha elections. The fight for women's rights is remembered for so many years because Afghan women are now fighting to the death for their education and freedom. In the same way, 18 years ago today, New Zealand women got the right to vote after a long struggle. For this he had to cross many obstacles. He came to the New Zealand Parliament in a large wheelbarrow with a 9-foot-long scroll to hear the woman's voice, and boldly and dramatically he scrolled through the chambers of the House of Representatives and created a nationwide thrill.

This is the first and only time in the history of the world that someone has filed such a long petition in the Lok Sabha. This was the third attempt by women to campaign for women's suffrage in New Zealand. The first attempts were thwarted by one excuse or another, conservative thinking and patriarchal attitudes. For the first time, 9,000 people signed a petition in favor of this in the New Zealand Parliament in 181. For the second time, 20,000 people signed in favor of women's suffrage in 19 and 32,000 people signed such a petition in 19.

Leading New Zealand politicians, such as John Hall, Robert Stout, Julius Vagel, William Fox and John Balance, supported women's suffrage, but were unsuccessful in opposing it inside and outside Parliament. Opponents say the laws that nature has made for women and men. There will be chaos in the observance of that law. The responsibilities that are naturally assigned to women will create a lot of chaos. '

On the other hand, the 'lobby' of the big liquor companies in New Zealand also opposed this. The reason was that he feared that if women were given the right to vote and, in time, establish their dominance in parliament, they would advocate for a ban on alcohol and the huge liquor business would collapse. When the petition was filed for the third time, it was passed by a vote of 18 to 20 on September 9, but the fight for women's suffrage still had a long way to go. Several anti-suffrage petitions were filed and some members of the Legislative Council even urged the governor to reject the law. So the governor did not sign immediately and if the governor did not sign, the bill would not become law. Both sides put a lot of pressure on Governor Lord Glasgow and finally eleven days later Governor Lord Glasgow signed the bill and it became law. It was celebrated all over the country and especially in countries where women were disenfranchised, other countries like Britain, Australia and America also congratulated New Zealand.

Interestingly, Kate Shepard, who was born in Liverpool, Britain, at the age of 20, moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, at the age of twenty. She founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union in New Zealand and called for women's suffrage to succeed in her fight against alcoholism. However, in time, gaining the right to vote became the main issue in the struggle.

For seven years in a row, she campaigned for women's suffrage throughout New Zealand. In public meetings, she enthusiastically made her demands. She also repeatedly alerted politicians to the issue by telegrams and telegrams and letters. The protests were fierce at the time, but gradually other women joined the movement and Shepard said, "Women are disqualified for suffrage, ignoring them." , That's your fatal mistake. You can never disqualify women for the right to vote. '

In three years, 18, 19 and 19, he tried to amend the bill or the law. But for the sake of a few votes, it was defeated. The government gave them the right to vote, but this opposition to the right to vote sparked a new controversy. Elections were held in New Zealand on November 9 of that year, and about five percent of the country's women had the opportunity to vote for the first time. Opposition groups called for a boycott of the polls, saying that rioters, molesters and drunkards would come to the polls and harass women. This resulted in an atmosphere of fear at the time of the election, but it turned out to be the most organized and highly organized New Zealand vote to date.

Thus, the hands of the opposition fell, but the road to political equality for New Zealand women was still a long way off. She got the right to run for Parliament in 1917 but no woman candidate was elected to Parliament till 19. In 19, Elizabeth McComb became the first woman member of parliament.

Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. This white camellia has since become a symbol of women's suffrage in New Zealand. The woman who led this whole movement, Kate Shepard, did not sit idly by in New Zealand, but continued to fight for women's rights at home and abroad. From contraceptive pills to women's clothing. She also started a newspaper called 'White Ribbon' and as its editor she also wrote articles on women's awareness. Historically, the White Ribbon was the first New Zealand newspaper to be owned, managed and published by women. Shepard's work gradually became well-known, and in 1906 he was elected honorary vice-president of the International Council of Women.

Her dream of becoming a woman in the New Zealand Parliament did not come true immediately, but Shepard's dream came true when Elizabeth McComb became a Member of Parliament in the 19th century. A year later, Kate Shepard died on July 17, 19. But her campaign for women's suffrage is still considered the voice of every women's liberation movement in the world. The brutal oppression of women by the Taliban in Afghanistan, the horrific rapes of girls in India, the equal status of women, or the exploitation of livelihoods and occupations - all these will continue to inspire Shepard to face adversity.

Manzrukho

"Once a nation begins to think, no one can stop it," said Walter, a famous French philosopher and an independent thinker who shook France's theocracy and statehood. And Walter began to think and write about the situation in France. Both the influential Catholic Church and the monarchical French regime were intimidated by Walter's writings.

As many as fourteen thousand letters and two thousand pamphlets, essays, articles and pamphlets he wrote resulted in an atmosphere of revolution in France. Walter opposed both religiosity and atheism. There were clashes for him and Walter was arrested several times and imprisoned in the Bastille. The French government sentenced him to deportation.

Is. Walter remained in England for a few years after being sentenced to 18 years in exile. Anti-French sentiment was at an all-time high in London at the time, and Walter was once surrounded by agitated passers-by. People started shouting loudly, 'Hang this Frenchman, don't show any mercy to him.' Walter stood patiently and humbly said to the crowd, 'Englishmen, you want to kill me because I am a native of France, but for me the punishment is nothing less than that I was born in France instead of England.'

Walter's words had a magical effect on the masses. People greeted him with a round of applause and escorted him home safely. "When your defeat is certain, dedication is the best way to win," Walter noted at one point.

The revelation of the moment

Nowadays everyone has the glory of having high, great or skyscraper dreams in life. "Even if you live at the foot of a mountain, you want to climb the highest peaks of the mountain." The small business owner wants to own a huge industrial empire. Lifestyle lecturers today talk about having ‘great nightmares’ in life, but in fact one should be working for the creation of dreams with a true picture of life. Family, health, longevity - dreams should be served in all these contexts. If you have a dream in your mind that will not come to fruition even in five lives, then at the end of your life you will have to live only dream breaking and failure! Many creators talk about their great dream in the beginning by playing the cow, but in the journey of life, other responsibilities surround them with the tragic knowledge of 'Dil hi toot gaya'. Not the joy of art creation, but the incompleteness of unfinished works. Creativity will be a burden, not a pleasure. If life is not in harmony with our dream, it does not take long for that dream to come true. Create a dream, create a big and glorious dream, but then look at it in the context of life and plan it properly, then life will become a joyous journey, otherwise you will experience the melancholy funeral procession of living life.