How does the poem,i believe highlight the theme of empowerment women ?give a few example from your observations in the modern world to show the need of empowering women.
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Sangma comes from a region of India that is not part of the mainstream, that is, from the north-east. Many of the peoples of that region belong to what are known as the scheduled tribes. Such peoples are often underestimated. It is believed that they are only able to study and work alongside the mainstream population because of reservation. However, that is not the case. Often they are highly talented and only cannot perform up to their full potential because of lack of opportunities. In her profession as a civil servant of Meghalaya, Sangma had probably come across many such youths whose talent had gone to waste. She writes this poem on their behalf. She asserts that people from her part of the country can succeed in any profession. So strong is her belief in the abilities of her fellow men and women that she believes they can even defy gravity or interact with such dangerous creatures as sharks without any harm to themselves.
She also knows that her people value the resources that the earth gives us much more than the rest of the Indian mainstream, and that only they can use those resources to the greatest advantage. She knows that the peoples of the north-east can travel to any place in this world and make themselves proud with their commitment to the work they are supposed to do. However, their true purpose in life is to serve their own geographical region. The north-east has not yet reached the same level of development as the rest of India as well as the first world. Hence all the qualified professionals of the north-east should focus their energies on facilitating the progress of their land. This land is very close to their hearts. They have been born and brought up here. It is the air of this region that they have breathed, and all their dreams also focus on this region. Hence they must work to make the north-east a place that they can proudly call their own and that will never again be underestimated. They must make the rest of India and the world believe that they are not in any way behind in terms of infrastructure or capability; that they are equally skilled and equally successful.