Dividing the Mango

Watch the episode in English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3CTi0dE1uM

This episode teaches that both boys and girls have equal rights. This is the second episode of the Meena series.

Story
Meena climbed a tree and picked a mango. After she brought it home, her grandmother said that girls should not climb trees. And after the mango was cut, Raju was the one who got most of it, simply for being a boy. Again that night, during the meal, Raju got more food than Meena. Raju even got an egg, Mithu secretly cut the egg into half and put one on Meena's plate when the children went to wash their hands. But Meena had to give that egg back to Raju when she got caught. Meena's mother and grandmother said that Raju is a growing boy and he needs to have more food, then Meena's father says that she is also a growing girl and she also needs to eat a lot. Raju disagrees with his father and says that he can finish Meena's chores in no-time. So Meena and Raju decided to change their positions the next day. Raju will do Meena's work and Meena will do Raju's work. That day, Raju had to wake up very early in the morning and face all the hardships that Meena faces everyday. Raju would usually spend his time spare, an Meena was the on one to enjoy leisure that day. But the only thing that Meena found tough was to handle Lali, their cow. Lali destroyed other people's fields by eating their crops when Meena fell asleep under the tree. Raju was still doing one of Meena's works, that is, babysitting Rani.

Looking at how hard Raju is working, Meens's family realized for the first time how hard Meena works and what an injustice it was to give her less food.

Raju was very hungry that evening for all the chores he did, but because of changing places, Meena got more food. Raju started to whine and everyone in the family laughed at him, Meena's mother gave some more food to Raju and cut the egg in half. Raju also realizes his mistake and promises to help in sister in work however possible. Since then Meena and Raju always had equal amount of food.