Five lessons a “Dehati Aurat”
can teach Nawaz Sharif
When you
think about a “dehati aurat” (a village woman) what is the first impression
that flashes your mind? Probably, an uncouth old woman paan-chewing, nose-pricking, loud- talking and talking unpleasant
gibberish about people on their back. However, if you are on who likes to
ponder over the insignificant things in life, you will realize the Dehati Aurat
can teach couple of things to Nawaz Sharif:
1.
Uncouth: The uncouth exterior of the Dehati
Aurat is an indication of the lack of cleanliness and poverty that has refused
to go away, irrespective of any ethnic or economic progress we may have made.
Pakistan and Nawaz Sharif should focus on eliminating extreme poverty from the
country and let the degree of uncouthness be an indicator of how successful
they have been.
2.
Paan-chewing: Chewing
paan or smoking bidis offer solace to the poor and downtrodden and provide a
way to escape from thinking about their lack of wealth, hygiene, job and
possibly a home. It also represents the bad habits people get into due to lack
of constructive engagement. Nawaz Sharif must focus on creating new employment
opportunities in Pakistan and provide jobs to the people. Terrorism is not a
constructive engagement.
3.
Nose-pricking: Pricking
and therefore cleaning your nose keeps you clean internally and away from
diseases. It will suit Mr Sharif perfectly well to do some “internal”
nose-pricking. Clean up the rogue and disease causing elements in Pakistan and
make it a safer place. The dehati aurat does a much better job here and he
should look at them for inspiration on how to clean-up.
4.
Loud-talking: The Dehati
Aurat talks aloud to make her heard, amongst a bunch of other Dehati Aurats.
Loud talking represents the ability to establish the dehati aurat's presence in
an environment of equals and often in one of superiors, given the male
dominated society. In either case, it requires courage to make your presence
felt in adverse situations. Nawaz Sharif can well take a leaf out the dehati
aurat's book and make his presence felt not only in Pakistan but throughout the
world. Neither Pakistan nor humanity gain from an impoverished and terror struck
country. It needs authoritative execution to lead the country out of the mess.
5.
Talking Unpleasant Gibberish about
people on their back: When the dehati aurat talks gibberish about people
behind their back, she demonstrates trust in the recipient of the information
and also an innate ability of deep observation. It takes skills to observe and
an innocence to trust. Nawaz is better off developing intelligence and skills
for observing negative elements and building trust and confidence for himself
and for Pakistan in the international arena.
While Nawaz Sharif clearly has a pervert, lowly image
of the dehati aurat, she clearly has more on her sleeves than he thinks.
