FRIDA KAHLO

Frida Kahlo (Coyoacán, 6th july 1907- Coyoacán, 13th july 1954) was a Mexican painter.
Her father was German, and her mother was Mexican. She had a lot of sisters.
She suffered poliomyelitis in 1913. Then, she had illnesses and wounds, that forced her to stay nine months in bed.
She developed in a different way from other children. Some of her paintings reflect the loneliness of her childhood.
She studied  in the German School until 1921. In 1922, she went to the Preparatory National School in Mexico City. She was in a group of people that protested against injustices.
On 17th September 1925, she had a bus accident. Her backbone was broken in three parts. She had to be operated 32 times throughout her life.
In the following years, she painted portraits. She became to frequent politic and intelectual atmospheres.
Frida met Diego Rivera (member of the Communist Party) who painted too. He loved Frida's paintings.
They got married on 21st August 1929. In 1930, she was pregnant for the first time, but the pregnancy had to be stopped.
Diego had a romance with Cristina,  Frida's sister. This affected Frida a lot. Frida had some romantic relationships with men and women (she was bisexual.)
In 1938, André Bretón (a surrealist poet and essayist) qualified her work as surrealist. But she said: "I've never painted my dreams. I've painted my own reality".
On 6th November 1939, Diego and Frida divorced. Frida was depressed, and she started to consume alcohol.
Years later, they got married again , but they excluded sex of their relationship.
Frida exhibited paintings in New York, Boston Philadelphia...
In 1950, she was hospitalized in Mexico City. She attempted suicide.
She had to stay in a wheelchair.
Her last painting was an oil painting called: VIVA LA VIDA.
In all of her paintings, she projected her difficulties to survive.

The discrimation of women in India

The discrimination of  women is a fact in many countries. If a girl is born in a family that´s a disaster, she will be underestimated and she won´t be treated as if she was a boy.  

For example, one of these countries is India. There, girls are discriminated since they are born; they can´t go to school, and they are educated in doing the housework and taking care of their brothers or sisters.
Indian girls are engaged since they are born, and they get married when they are just six or seven years old. Their husbands have total dominion over them, and in many cases they are treated worse than domestic animals. Since they are married, girls often get pregnant and have a lot of kids. That´s because their husbands just refuse to use contraceptives. Apart from taking care of their children and doing the housework, women are the ones that make the harder tasks.

 The biggest part of violence against women in India is constituted by violations, which is the cause of the death of over one or two million  women a year. But this is not the only way of violence: women are often burned alive; other big part die because of  aggresions from their husbands.  But the most horrible way of violence is that some fathers kill their girls when they are babies or kids, just to evade the big amount of money Indian people are used to pay to the husband´s fathers when they want to get their daughter married.

Violence against women in India is a big trouble in our society, and I think that our international organizations should do something about it. What do you think they should do? Would you choose to be an Indian woman?