Dear Preetam, Thank you for posting this article. I too read it and then lost the link, and tried unsuccessfully to retrieve it.
I find it totally abhorrent that girls are being made to wear the Salwar Kameez as a school uniform in Goa. In the article, it stated that the Salwar Kameez would be more suitable for sports and other physical activities. Oh really? Have the education authorities in Goa tried to do physical exercise dressed in a Salwar Kameez? Have they tried to run a marathon, jump hurdles, play football in a Salwar Kammeez? I can well imagine girls who desperately want to excel in sports now being told that they will have to fully cover themselves, let their sweat trap in these garments giving them rash and other unfathomable diseases. I can imagine these and all girls of school going age, ever so subtlety being discouraged and dissuaded from assuming that they are equal to men. What is going on in Goa? Are we taking 10 steps backwards in every direction? I am not only ashamed, I am actually terrified for Goa. Elisabeth --------------------------------------- --- Preetam Raikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently, I was astonished to read an article on the > local Goan english > newspaper on the Higher Secondary Schools change of > uniform to Salwar Kameez. > I request the Eduacational authorithies not to > strictly impose the dress code > to Salwar Kameez. Its the full right of the > students to wear dresses, skirts > or whatever they like, so long as they don't breach > the moral standards. The > subtle ideas of this Salwar Kameez idealogy is the > 'outsider' influence that > is now threathening the very social fabric of the > native Goans. Today no > skirts, tommorow no Jeans. > > Preetam Raikar > > _____________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. > Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org) > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)