‘Excuse me Madam, you cannot board the plane.’
‘What? How dare you say that? I have a conference to attend. I am getting in.’
‘Madam, we will have to de-plane you then.’
‘I will sue you.’
Ananya was disallowed to board. She did her masters in History and was going to Delhi from Kolkata to attend a conference alone. This would have been her first flight, but it didn’t happen. Dejected, she goes and sues the Airline. It took her quite some time to win the case; but she did.
‘You must be very happy now! We won the case! It’s our success’, roared an entire team of friends.
But Ananya wasn’t happy. Fighting for the case seemed to be a failure. More than anything, the mindset has to change. All these years, she thought of herself as a success story of her school The Spastics Society, but that was long ago. Now she seemed disillusioned. Will she ever be able to commute alone, move up and down the unwelcoming stairs without feeling obliged to strangers. She looked at the sky that was about to rain and pondered if an Ananya 100 years later willl still have to fight like this, as she drove back home.
‘Madam, we will have to de-plane you then.’
‘I will sue you.’
Ananya was disallowed to board. She did her masters in History and was going to Delhi from Kolkata to attend a conference alone. This would have been her first flight, but it didn’t happen. Dejected, she goes and sues the Airline. It took her quite some time to win the case; but she did.
‘You must be very happy now! We won the case! It’s our success’, roared an entire team of friends.
But Ananya wasn’t happy. Fighting for the case seemed to be a failure. More than anything, the mindset has to change. All these years, she thought of herself as a success story of her school The Spastics Society, but that was long ago. Now she seemed disillusioned. Will she ever be able to commute alone, move up and down the unwelcoming stairs without feeling obliged to strangers. She looked at the sky that was about to rain and pondered if an Ananya 100 years later willl still have to fight like this, as she drove back home.
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