Once again with the imposition of the salwaar kameez on hapless young women our politicians and religious leaders have chosen to use their energies and influence on issues with little merit but perhaps a lot of benefit for themselves. Another case of da Vincitis. As Elisabeth has pointed out so astutely how does this advance the issues of young women? We Goan women have been fortunate to have been able to wear anything we fancy - saris, salwars, minis and the awful midis which fortunately were killed by some savvy trendsetter. Why do we want to lose this? If traditional families wish their daughters to wear the salwaar then there is little we can do but others should be able to allow their daughters to wear the regular and brazen uniforms! Two costumes in a multicultural state such as ours is not a big deal. I would hate it if the Director of my laboratory in the USA did not allow me to wear my salwaar kameez in summer. Its not like we shun Indian clothes - every wedding that I attended in Goa last year had Catholic women in beautiful Indian outfits and men in even better ones. Rather than instigate a salwaar kameez riot with the burning of something totally irrelevant such as posters of a scantily dressed Britney Spears or a KFC, these dolts that we elected could be doing something productive - but I guess I have already said that. But lets not get discouraged with the 'Talibanisation of Goa' lets cheer the young women who regardless of how cool or how moral infused their clothes were, managed to bring back a gold and a silver at the Asian Women's Chess championship. Congratulations Bhakti Kulkarni, Ivana Maria Furtado and Sweety Navnitbhai Patel.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Elisabeth Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Talibanisation of Goa. (re uniforms) Dear Fred, I would feel a lot more assured if the headlines had read "Parents offended by Western attire - Khasti reinstated". I would even have settled for, "Kurta Pajama reinstated for boys as uniform." Unfortunately, the demands made are on a women and it is not the attire that worries me, it is the motive behind it. Whenever changes take place in a women's world, we have to ask ourselves; does this further our cause of equality, does this level the playing field between genders, does this teach us lesson that are important and relevant or ones that are archaic? Does this make us more important in society or does it set parameters for us, that are ill-defined in today's world? _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
