Monday, February 16, 2009
Need for More "Pub Bharo" Campaigns
What is it with these damn fool people? Just weeks after women in Mangalore were assaulted for not wearing Indian clothes, a woman in Delhi is turned away from a disco for wearing Indian clothes, and not western clothes. Honestly, what is going on? Women in India need to do another "pub bharo" campaign to protest against this dishonoring of the sari, the dress that women of our grandmothers' generation wore when they fought for freedom, the dress in which Indira Gandhi ruled for 17 years a huge country of every religion imaginable, the dress in which police officers and constables maintain law and order, the dress in which farming women plant their crops. I have seen my mother and her friends dance the foxtrot in their elegant chiffon and silk saris. Thousands of Indian women dance in saris at weddings. Now, suddenly, it's not good enough for a tuppeny-ha'penny discotheque? Bah!
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