It sickens me how many Indian men glorify the concept of a cultured, sanskari, Indian woman. They go on with their nauseating concepts of their modesty, family values, simplicity, innocence, propriety and so on. It is ironic how the prudes who speak about these virtues are themselves bereft of any!
They force their wives, sisters, daughters to be meek, clamp down on their freedom, treat them as inferior to themselves, mentally or physically torture them if they do not comply and once these poor women are forced to 'behave' themselves - they start praising their virtues and romanticize on the concept of the graceful, coy, Bharatiya Naari.
Only insecure men will clamp down on the sexuality of women. Unfortunately, most of these men vote which makes MPs and MLAs of India dance to their conservative tunes. Two recent events exemplify my point. First, the banning of Savita Bhabhi's website. I have already written about her in the following blogpost - http://salilkhetani.blogspot.com/2009/07/savita-bhabhi.html . Secondly, now the MPs in parliament have nothing better to do than ask for the ban of the reality television show 'Sach ka Saamna'.
Why do they want this show banned? Because a lady contestant had to admit to the fact that she thought about cheating on her husband! Now this would not be such an issue in other countries, but in India it causes outrage as a woman is not supposed to have such thoughts, only men are allowed such privileges.
I'm not even going to get into the concept of freedom of choice and moral policing! Let me focus on the mindset of the Bharatiya Purush. The typical chauvinistic Bharatiya Purush criticizes 'Western culture' and glorifies the Indian culture because it is very convenient for him. He may extoll the concepts of the bharatiya naari in the sweetest language but the bharatiya naari to me will always remain the suppressed, tortured, soul confined by a hostile society.
They force their wives, sisters, daughters to be meek, clamp down on their freedom, treat them as inferior to themselves, mentally or physically torture them if they do not comply and once these poor women are forced to 'behave' themselves - they start praising their virtues and romanticize on the concept of the graceful, coy, Bharatiya Naari.
Only insecure men will clamp down on the sexuality of women. Unfortunately, most of these men vote which makes MPs and MLAs of India dance to their conservative tunes. Two recent events exemplify my point. First, the banning of Savita Bhabhi's website. I have already written about her in the following blogpost - http://salilkhetani.blogspot.com/2009/07/savita-bhabhi.html . Secondly, now the MPs in parliament have nothing better to do than ask for the ban of the reality television show 'Sach ka Saamna'.
Why do they want this show banned? Because a lady contestant had to admit to the fact that she thought about cheating on her husband! Now this would not be such an issue in other countries, but in India it causes outrage as a woman is not supposed to have such thoughts, only men are allowed such privileges.
I'm not even going to get into the concept of freedom of choice and moral policing! Let me focus on the mindset of the Bharatiya Purush. The typical chauvinistic Bharatiya Purush criticizes 'Western culture' and glorifies the Indian culture because it is very convenient for him. He may extoll the concepts of the bharatiya naari in the sweetest language but the bharatiya naari to me will always remain the suppressed, tortured, soul confined by a hostile society.
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