01-17-2007, 09:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2007, 09:19 PM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Indian Sari - Fashioning the Female Form
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/theindiansari.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Anyone know who this Macualayputri Jayaprabha is:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Burn This Saree
Burn this saree.
When I see this end
of the saree on my shoulder ..
I think of chastity a log
hung from my neck.
It does not let me stand up straight
It presses my chest with its hands
bows me down ,teaches me shame
and whirls around me
a certain bird like confusion
It hypnotizes me telling You
You are a woman
makes me forget I am human
It covers both my shoulders
with its own hands and flutters
announcing "See, see this woman! She is chaste"
I feel like screaming "No, No I am not"
But my throat does not open
I am defeated by this saree
It throws me down like a a whirl wind.
It is blame generations have laid on me.
The unseen patriarchal hand
This saree is the white shroud on the corpse
That is me in this culture of loot nd plunder
If I've to stop being the walking dead
I've to burn this saree first
just burn this saree.
-Jayaprabha
Save This Saree
Oh my beautiful saree
I love you much to tell you free
You enlighten the feminism in me
For which I should thank you much
For I am a woman first
The birth I consider the best.
When I see this end of the saree
I think of chastity enhanced by its
Long free flow.
It helps me cover my head from sun
It solaces me by wiping my tears
It straightens me to stand among the mass
And because of that it stands for generations.
If i've to stop being the walking dead
First accept woman hood is superior
Why to burn a saree?
Burn your slavery thoughts!
I need not change into a man
To become superior
And thus declaring Him superior.
-S.Santha Devi
http://www.indiwiz.com/sari/conflict.php<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I suspect that she may be another assembly line product of the prestigious JNU campus.
Another white wannabe feminist trying to pass off the aspirations of white anglo saxon women as the aspirations that women all over the world should aspire to.
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/theindiansari.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Anyone know who this Macualayputri Jayaprabha is:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Burn This Saree
Burn this saree.
When I see this end
of the saree on my shoulder ..
I think of chastity a log
hung from my neck.
It does not let me stand up straight
It presses my chest with its hands
bows me down ,teaches me shame
and whirls around me
a certain bird like confusion
It hypnotizes me telling You
You are a woman
makes me forget I am human
It covers both my shoulders
with its own hands and flutters
announcing "See, see this woman! She is chaste"
I feel like screaming "No, No I am not"
But my throat does not open
I am defeated by this saree
It throws me down like a a whirl wind.
It is blame generations have laid on me.
The unseen patriarchal hand
This saree is the white shroud on the corpse
That is me in this culture of loot nd plunder
If I've to stop being the walking dead
I've to burn this saree first
just burn this saree.
-Jayaprabha
Save This Saree
Oh my beautiful saree
I love you much to tell you free
You enlighten the feminism in me
For which I should thank you much
For I am a woman first
The birth I consider the best.
When I see this end of the saree
I think of chastity enhanced by its
Long free flow.
It helps me cover my head from sun
It solaces me by wiping my tears
It straightens me to stand among the mass
And because of that it stands for generations.
If i've to stop being the walking dead
First accept woman hood is superior
Why to burn a saree?
Burn your slavery thoughts!
I need not change into a man
To become superior
And thus declaring Him superior.
-S.Santha Devi
http://www.indiwiz.com/sari/conflict.php<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I suspect that she may be another assembly line product of the prestigious JNU campus.
Another white wannabe feminist trying to pass off the aspirations of white anglo saxon women as the aspirations that women all over the world should aspire to.