Haryana’s Chief Minister
Khattar once asked why women didn’t walk around naked if they wanted to prove
their freedom. You and I, like other
rational creatures, will naturally wonder what the connection is between freedom
and nudity. Do the menfolk of Khattar’s
state, who have all kinds of bizarre systems of justice like khap panchayats, walk around naked in
order to prove their freedom? Or, are
they not free?
Well, logic does not play
any significant role in Haryana, it seems.
Or for that matter, logic seems to have little to do with Khattar’s
party in general. It is a party which
harps on the string of women empowerment through enthralling slogans such beti bachao, beti padhao and so on. In actual practice, however, the party men
want women to play the age-old conventional roles and sit at home with their
faces buried behind veils. The men won’t
even hesitate to stalk those women who dare to be out especially after dark as
it happened the other day in Chandigarh, the state’s capital.
Source: NDTV |
Haryana’s BJP leaders
have spoken against women’s liberties time and again. But asking them to walk about naked in the
name of freedom or whatever indicates the rot that is afflicting the attitudes
of the men. When they keep their women packaged
neatly behind traditional attires including the face veil, their deepest
desires spring out of their dark Freudian recesses through the kind of
statements made by none other than the Chief Minister.
Khattar and others of his
kind must come to terms with that inner darkness. As light begins to dissipate that darkness,
they will begin to see certain realities a little more clearly. For example, that women have their own rights. They don’t need the men to dictate terms to
them. That age is past. We live in a time when women have proved
undoubtedly that they can do all the works that men do, perhaps even
better. Just because RSS, BJP’s
grandmother, does not like women, it does not mean that women continue to be
the kind of household goods and chattels that ancient patriarchs like Manu
viewed them as.
At any rate, asking them
walk around naked displays a tremendous dearth of aesthetic sense, to say the
least. Well, no sane person would expect
our politicians to possess aesthetics.
We don’t expect charcoal to transmute into diamonds despite the chemical
connections between them.
Khattar ji, one of the
reasons for inventing clothes was to add beauty (as well as dignity) to the
human body. You see, we humans don’t
have the grace of the naked swans or the gazelles, nor the majesty of the naked
lions and elephants, not even the symmetry of Blake’s tiger. Just imagine a world of naked men and
women. I’m sure you won’t really like
it. Otherwise stand naked in front of
your bedroom mirror and look at yourself for a moment.
Please stop selling crap
to us though we know you people are in love with the dung and urine of certain
animals. Okay, we tolerate quite a bit
of excreta. How much do you really want
us to swallow?
There is another one where someone said that being virgin means being unmarried. I didn't find any logic there as well. They seem to have cow dung for some gray cells.
ReplyDeleteI have stopped expecting any sense from the right wing in India.
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