01-06-2005, 09:59 PM
Raja,
Try to avoid posts with <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> icon. It means you are angry. You have used this in the last 2 posts without any particular reason. Atleast its not obvious to me. If anything it tells others that you are a very short-tempered person and god forbid if you were living in a society that had "limited freedom" women around you will be in deep trouble. <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Coming to the topic at hand the reason we are all confused is once again the framework that the question has been posed in. There are 2 extremes for this situation.
1. Rules that take care of "freedom of women". Per Raja, they should not be open-ended either. In other words, they must be strict and codified.
2. Everything goes. Panties showing, boobs popping out, whatever.
It is obvious that neither one of them is acceptable. Thankfully India doesnt have any of the problems 1 or 2. Is the Indian society changing ? Yes. Is it for good ? I am not too sure. I found kareina kapoor (whatever her name is these days) wearing a top made out of union jack even more troubling then her wearing a 2 piece bikini. And this doesnt just affect women. This affects everybody. We are blindly aping the western society without considering the pros and cons of that society. I have not seen TV programs or serious literature that looks at the western societies with a critical eye. The statistics that Raja mentions is the kind that needs to be made public. Once fully informed societies arrive at a consensus that women moving around topless is cool I for one have no problem with it. Whether that is the case today I am not too sure.
That is the reason why papers and articles like
Dialog on Whiteness Studies
is important. Rajiv Malhotra is a big proponent of Purva-Paksha of other religions and societies. I agree with him.
Try to avoid posts with <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> icon. It means you are angry. You have used this in the last 2 posts without any particular reason. Atleast its not obvious to me. If anything it tells others that you are a very short-tempered person and god forbid if you were living in a society that had "limited freedom" women around you will be in deep trouble. <!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Coming to the topic at hand the reason we are all confused is once again the framework that the question has been posed in. There are 2 extremes for this situation.
1. Rules that take care of "freedom of women". Per Raja, they should not be open-ended either. In other words, they must be strict and codified.
2. Everything goes. Panties showing, boobs popping out, whatever.
It is obvious that neither one of them is acceptable. Thankfully India doesnt have any of the problems 1 or 2. Is the Indian society changing ? Yes. Is it for good ? I am not too sure. I found kareina kapoor (whatever her name is these days) wearing a top made out of union jack even more troubling then her wearing a 2 piece bikini. And this doesnt just affect women. This affects everybody. We are blindly aping the western society without considering the pros and cons of that society. I have not seen TV programs or serious literature that looks at the western societies with a critical eye. The statistics that Raja mentions is the kind that needs to be made public. Once fully informed societies arrive at a consensus that women moving around topless is cool I for one have no problem with it. Whether that is the case today I am not too sure.
That is the reason why papers and articles like
Dialog on Whiteness Studies
is important. Rajiv Malhotra is a big proponent of Purva-Paksha of other religions and societies. I agree with him.