Dear Dad,
I have full faith in your love and that's why I am writing this letter to you just after my birth.I just want you to be strong while reading it.I have been born as a girl,so that's a wonder.For a girl being born in this country,is really astonishing.Be prepared to see boys ogling at me when I enter school and when I enter the college gates, be prepared to see that disgraceful stare increasing. My attire will be the universal choice and not my own.I can't choose what I wish to wear. You will always find me at home in the night for I am your daughter and not your son.In the long run, I will be ignored and I am prepared for that. I am strong willed enough for it to not bother me.I would need your support though when I am eve-teased for that is an inevitable fact.When I do the only thing that I am supposed to do,study, in my childhood and then enter a college on merit, I will be ridiculed there. For my face and figure would attract attention, not my brains. If I play games like basketball or soccer, I would be labelled a tom-boy. Even if I excel in them and make it to the national team, the country would forget about me. Upon getting employed,sexual harassment officials would often ring you up complaining that I had lodged a false complaint. I should take it back or you will face dire consequences. I would get married to a man whose family would want dowry for that is the norm in the society.People don't consider it their fortune to get a daughter for their son. They always want an add-on. They always want money. If after marriage, I am seen with a male other than my husband, the society would question your judgement. I would be a housewife, for a lady defence officer, would sound so uncool. It would hurt me but I would stay silent.People would take it for arrogance otherwise.After toiling throughout, when you would one day go to heaven, I won't be allowed to light your pyre, for I would be a lady.In my life's journey,you would face more trouble than me.I apologize for the same.Hope you would understand.
Your Daughter.
