Oh Yes. Sarees Can Rescue Indian Women

I would have loved to say – it is the way women dress that has brought about molesnation, the rape of life across India.

After all, if only women could cover themselves properly, would these cases of battery, abuse, rape and molestation drastically reduce. The alleged statements made by a minister in Goa helps this case further. Whether he was misquoted or not, it better be true that wearing sarees prevents eve-teasing. The responsibility then lies on the ladies, not on men. Now they can take initiative. Ladko se galti ho jaati hai, lekin ladies first.

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Now sarees will protect Indian women!

Ladies, please wear sarees. Men will stop pinching your buttocks. They will stop deriving pleasure from watching your body. Rapes will stop.
As a natural man, I would have loved to believe this because, it’s convenient for me. But two questions came to my mind after Saree-man came to the rescue of Indian women –

1) One in every two children in India have been molested. Satyameva Jayate. So, would wrapping sarees around little boys and girls have prevented the rape of children too?

2) Let’s say sarees do reduce eve-teasing. That’s just wiping dirt off the tip of the iceberg. What about the horrifying things educated men do to women in their minds? Do sarees or burqas have power to stop vile imaginations? Or is imagining rapes o.k. because not one gets hurt, you know?

My mother is 57 years old. A conservative, Hindu woman. More than anyone else, I have seen her in sarees. (And she has a formidable collection!) She is also a government servant who has used public transport across India for decades. I called her up to ask what she thought about the saree comment. Like any conservative Indian, she said women must wear any dress properly.

Then she said “thinking that wearing sarees will prevent eve-teasing doesn’t seem right”.

Then I asked– “ Mummy, do you know women who have been eve-teased while they wore sarees properly?”

She hesitated and said, “yes, that too has happened”.

Don’t get me wrong. I applaud women who choose modesty because they want to honour their God who gave them their body. They rock. But the heart of the problem is the problem of the eve-teaser’s heart. Does India need hollow reasoning, or do you and I need the Man who always spoke truth because He was truth? –

“It’s what comes out of a person that pollutes: obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart. There is the source of your pollution.” Mark 7:20-23, MSG

Did you know Jesus alone can make stone-dead hearts alive?

India is in a desperate place. Indian men need Jesus. I need his pure life. Not sarees.

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