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"To be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing it's best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”... E.E. Cummings
In a country like India, where even a modern woman has to fight day and night to prove her existence, we cannot even think about the struggle of third genders. Even if a third party came near us to ask for money in a simple public place, it seemed that he was uncomfortable with the white-clad society. Therefore, to give them a place in the flow of society or to think about them as a human being is far from today's society, being born as a third gender in that time is a black water punishment to be suffered for the rest of your life! But the struggle to recover from it and prove one's existence on the stage of the society and to make the society take notice of one's self is a symbol of Durga Shakti. Where a woman born as a man finds her own existence and gives meaning to the lives of women like her in society, she is a symbol of Durga Shakti. "Joyita Mondal" is a woman fighter in the history of India.
Born as a boy named Joyonto, when it became clear that her next life would be a third gender, her black water punishment began. She had to bear the scorn of her birth parents and her own family for being third-class before being rejected by society. When she started going to school, she started being ignored by the society. Be it peers from her school or neighbors down the street. Every day she had to listen to her third gender. We often think that why are we born? As a third gender, don't we also have the right to live as human beings? After 10th, Joyita dropped out of school because of the criticism she received. One day in 2009, She left home forever after telling her parents that She got a job in another city.
Even after leaving home and coming to Dinjapur, her life became more difficult. Despite the money, no hotel offered accommodation as it was a third party. She had to spend nights on the streets starving. As a third gender, even with money, the community was hesitant to provide food and water. Once upon a time, Joyita was treated like a dog. A distraught Joyita was accepted by the third gender people of Dinjapur and given a place to stay. But in return, it was time for her to work begging on the streets. But Joyita did not want to live such a life. She did not want to be treated as inferior to a dog by society. In the world's largest democracy, the right to live as a human being was wanted. In 2010, she founded a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) called "Nayi Roshni for Dinjapur" to address the injustices faced by her and solve the problems of women like her. She raised a fight through this organization. Many third party people joined her fight and gradually the work of her organization began to expand. In 2010, Joyita was the first third-gender woman in India to get a voter ID card.
In 2014, the Supreme Court ruled that transgender (third-gender) people will be officially recognized. Things have changed in India after the order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court. New avenues of employment have been opened up to third parties and freedom is being provided to bring them to an equal platform in the society. While doing social work through this organization, Joyita got to know the Deputy Collector and District Magistrate of Islampur, Thanduk Sherpa. Through this acquaintance she contacted a former Additional District Judge named Subrata Pole. Taking note of her social work and respecting the order given by the Supreme Court, Pole recommended that her name be considered as a judge in the Lok Adalat of Islampur. A Lok Adalati has a three-member judicial panel. It consists of a senior judge, a lawyer and a person who has made valuable contributions in the social sector. Joyita was recommended for inclusion in this panel in recognition of her social work.
It was a revolutionary moment for a third gender woman to be invited to judge in the judiciary. During the last 29 years of struggle and suffering, an opportunity came to her to show a ray of hope in the lives of people like us. Of course she accepted this opportunity. On July 8, 2017, 29-year-old Joyita Mandal became India's first third-gender judge in the Lok Adalat. The Goddess of Justice is blind because she is meant to show no partiality in judging. According to Joyita,
“I have been given the position of a social worker and they treat me as I deserve. I am not there as a transgender… I am there as an impartial judge.”
The victory of Joyita Mandal's fight is not only limited to her but it will have wider implications in the society. It's not just limited to the mindset and empowerment of the community, it's about gaining access to the system and gaining the right to change the system. That is why Joyita Mandal is a unique form of modern Durga Shakti. Who has the right to live as a human being with countless third gender like her, facing every look, criticism and injustice of the society in very adverse conditions. This has been shown to white people. That is why I sincerely believe that her fight will play a decisive role in the future. Joyita Mandal's success is not limited to India but its respect for Indian democracy, the Indian Constitution and Supreme Court decisions, the repercussions of which will not fail to reverberate at the world level.
On the one hand, when there is a movement to wear burqa and bring mace on women's freedom, and the young generation gives silent support to the movement without thinking about the past, Joyita's fight to bring the third party people into the mainstream through democracy for their own rights and freedom, I feel is a unique form of Durga. My warmest salute to Joyita Mandal. I wish her all the best for her future journey.
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