Re: 'Burqa' and 'Kasti'
Food for thought
When burqa became the norm, did Muslim women fly around the world in jet
planes? Was camera around then? Did the women show their faces to the
outside world, even immediate outside world (except within the household)
without the burqa? Did Muslim women attend Universities? Should antique
norms be burried and/or used without after-shocks?
Why was Kasti the norm? (in Goa). Kasti was never a tradition. It was the
bare necessity. Tradition is practiced by a particular tribe in South
America (Brazil) where a mere waist band is the full dress code. It is funny
how women there feel shy to lower the band even to relieve themselves
whereas every thing is normal when the band is in place, being bare naked
all the while ( men, women and children).
Has anyone here on this thread worn a 'Kasti' by any chance as a routine
dress code? I am asking this question because I have (as a young boy when
going fishing or swiming in the river. The only reason being there were no
underwears at that time and Kasti was the underwear and very effective too,
for men. And I feel proud to have discarded it, never to remember about it
enough to give me a 'high' or a 'low'
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
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www.goasu-raj.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Santosh Helekar" <chimbel...@yahoo.com>
To: " estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] 'Khawateen cant discard purdah for politics'
--- On Fri, 3/12/10, Frederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote:
Here again, the leftovers of our religious assumptions come
into play.
A. Separation of church and state.
B. Freedom of religion.
C. Freedom of expression.
1. Why should we be just discussing the burqa, when there
are other dress codes considered inappropriate by members of a
different community?
I mentioned burqa in response to Sandeep's reference to it. What is true
of burqa is true of kashti. I have already stipulated that nobody can ban
the kashti. Please see:
http://www.colaco.net/1/SantoshKashtidefence.htm
Santosh
