Nerve Endings Firing Away

Patrix

I read the same article and was working on an entry update. I think that the institute comes in the “Wierd” category of things and is not a normal occurance.

On the other hand, the selling of the woman is sad. I hope and wish that the punishment for something like this was a death squad or public stoning. However barbaric that may sound, it just equals the actual crime, and we dont have any need of such people.

I hardly think one freak show school is enough to cause us to re-evaluate our attitude towards how Indian women are treated – if we’re making comparisons against Saudi Arabia. Despite all the atrocities against women here in India, they are still a million times more free than those in Saudi Arabia. Name one woman in power in Saudi Arabia – in India, not all the women in power came through family connections. But the fact is they made it., whatever the odds awere, and they are still, for the most part accepted as leaders. I am not, even for a millisecond trying to downplay any of the miseries that women in our country have to face, on a daily basis. I’m just trying to say, let’s not exaggerate everything out of all proportion and take this alarmist attitude. There is a school like this, in America (yes I use America as a yardstick a lot), but you don’t see anybody being shocked over there.

Do we really grant Indian Women equity? That’s a question that you need to answer for yourself. I do. My father didn’t. But I do. I’ll be sure to beat it into my son and daughter’s head. And if I’m still alive, into my grandchildren’s heads too. You, me, and the blogosphere, while not “representative” of the Indian populace, are still a part of Indian society, and not necessarily on its fringes. One freak show school does not change that – in fact this – and the increasing attacks on women may even be a backlash against the fact that changes are happening.

This is a very old story that the TOI has redone. Think Outlook or someone else had done it years back. And if you go and meet the manju sanskar people, they’re actually proud of the writeups. They do not see it as negative. And I agree with Aekta. It happens in daily life too. In a subtle and not so subtle way

TTG, comparing ourselves to Saudi Arabia is no comparison at all…choosing the lesser evil is no good coz it still is evil.

Aekta, I agree that there are thousands of subtle ways in which women are ‘trained’ for married life in India but to go ahead and set up a formal ‘educational’ institute is enough to evoke laughter first and disbelief later.

Rash, don’t tell me they still haven’t learnt that they are been made fun of.

Abhishek, am glad you see the humor :) but the societal implications aren’t so funny if you look closer.

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