Unlearn Saris To Learn Skirt!!

India has come a long way. Religious democracy has played a major role to shape the destiny of the country. It is not very difficult to analyze the major causes of the change. It is not very difficult to find the reason for the growth of few individuals. It is simple but hard to discuss. It is equally hard to follow. But fortunately, recent changes have acted like serious catalytic affect.

A sincere observation reveals the cause of slow growth in society. The majority have remained obsessed with the old and conservative traditions at the cost of their own growth. These traditions have coolly kept them backward. These traditions have worked as a biggest obstacle in their ride to success. The leaders, rulers and intellectuals have always exploited these weaknesses of human nature to keep the majority in deprived and helpless condition. But, now they should not do anymore for the sake of their own achievements.

People in general have not been able to understand the hidden agenda of many of our well recognized leaders. People have fallen in their trap. People have remained deprived. Today, when information and opportunities have paved the way for commoners, the prospects of growth have become brighter. But, individuals who wants to grow has to understand the basic needs of growth.

One such need is to change the dress code. Long back when I was doing engineering college, I remember the dress code given for girl students. The dress code was pant-shirt, salwar-kurta or skirt-top etc. Sari, a traditional dress for majority of Indian ladies was not allowed. Shall we unlearn ‘Sari’?

Why talk about college, I have observed that even school children have dress code of skirt-top at most of the places. These girls use this dress code for years. They must be getting attached to these dresses. Psychologically, it must be difficult to change the dress at every stage. The girls are put in a situation where they are conditioned to encounter unlearning on regular basis. But, surprisingly, unlearning forced on these helpless girls make them deprived. The unlearning forced on them make dependent. Sari is one such example blatant enough to be seen by everyone but hardly ever sensed to be recognized its negative impact because of traditional attachments.

In contradictions, all these girls are always forced to wear sari in pretext of traditions. This is a big contradiction in society. Girls are always made a scapegoat for changes. Why should a grille be forced to so many changes in one life? Why?

If a simple survey is done on dress code, anybody can find that sari is the dress for deprived, dependent and conservative ladies. The ladies who are convinced to accept saris as dress will be mostly house-wives, generally semi-illiterate, highly conservatives, deprived and economically dependent on male counterparts. The independent and forward looking ladies can be found at working places like call centers, BPOs, banks, airplanes etc. or in five star hotels for parties, conferences etc or educational institutes as teachers, student etc and so on. All these forward looking ladies can be found in modern dresses.

Sari has lost its significance to exist in vibrant, dynamic and progressive society like Burqua. Recently, in one of the center page article in Times of India, Shashi Tharoor appealed to the women of India to save sari from a sorry fate. I am unable to understand the logic of these appeals. Why Shashi should appeal to women to remain backward and dependent? Why as an intellectual is he attaching modern dresses as western dress? Why do we attaché anything progress and good to western values? Are we have our birthright to born backward and die backward? Why Shashi should teach our ladies to be in conservative attire? It is a fatal aspiration.

If you have to grow, prosper and succeed, you have to unlearn sari, you have to accept modern dresses. You have to unlearn that Sari is Indian and modern dresses are western. Sari might be a good dress when you were in village without much external travel, work or pressure. Sari was good for women who used to be a display material for family. Sari is not good for women who are the bread earner, executives and person who drive progress and economy. Shashi must stop communicating responsibility to save sari on the shoulder of growing and struggling girls and ladies who want to grow. Shashi must stop convincing male to force their female to dress sari. Sari must go like Japanese kimono as he said in his own article.

The things which are vanishing in a slow manner, Indian intelligentsias should never preach general people to protect them. If villages have to go, why should farmers is preached not to leave villages? Why should menial and deprived people be preached not to march to the cities? Why should illiterate and deprived children be forced to study regional languages? All these questions are related to the drawback of Indian media, leaders and intelligentsias. They need to be conscious of what they preach others.

Sari must vanish to bring prosperity to this land. Women should not be unnecessarily taught wrong things. Women have also the privilege to be independent and growing.


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