What Yesudas has said is the
reflection of a typical male chauvinistic society, which has no ‘sense of sin’
is ‘devouring’ the beauty of the women in the so-called 'aristocratic' settu
mundu, or the sari for that matter, which incidentally expose the ‘feminine
contours’ more than the jeans or the churidar!
It is up to a woman to wear what
she likes, because one’s dressing is more about personality than sexuality.
In my opinion, jeans attributes kind
of a masculine element to the appearance of a woman and it does not act as an ‘added
catalyst’ to turn on a normal man, as it is just like any other dress. And for
the abnormal, the attire doesn’t matter either!
The poor women dwelling in the
streets are raped not because they wear tight jeans. The vultures and wolves in
the society have enough reason to outrage the modesty of a woman, which has
nothing to do with the dress, personality or even the sexuality of a woman.
And I don’t think the purdah can
save a woman from such people, because concealment can also arouse dangerous curiosity.
We are a society that long lost
the beauty of healthy sex life. And the same is with drinking too. Nowhere in
the world you can see men drinking liquor with the ‘ritualistic fervor’ of black
magic, and I think all these secret affairs are interlinked and it points to the
some serious psychological ailment of the society, which the Ganagndharvan
failed to understand.
We have heard enough about the young
girls and toddlers getting raped, and the jeans are not the culprit there too.
Recently, a senior police officer
told about a personal experience during the sitting of a Commission. He had to
question a tribal woman in connection with some human rights issue. When the
woman came near the Commission, her body was literally stinking and her dresses
were all tattered. When he asked her about it, she said she decided not to take
bath because she was afraid if her body was neat and clean, the wolves in the
garb of the human beings will tear her off to satisfy their carnal interests.
And this too happens in this society, because life is not like music here.
But sadly enough we need a reason
for every criminality and when it comes to outraging the modesty of a woman, it
is easy to blame the jeans. Long live the MCPs!
Kannur: An artist who searched
for the Indian identity not only in art but his life too. That was K V
Haridasan, pioneer of the neo-tantric art movement in India, who died in
Bangalore on Sunday.
