Yes, you have read and heard it right, the
tainted and painted Tourism minister Dilip Parulekar has decided to introduce a
dress code for 2016 carnival. And his logic is to stop vulgarity.
It is sheer height of ignorance of this
minister who has travelled the globe at taxpayers cost and not learnt the
meaning of carnival. Carnival means a festive season of merry-making, feasting,
masquerading wearing unusual clothes and dancing. It is simply fun and frolic
usually held in the streets of villages, towns or cities three days before Lent.
‘Carni’ also stands for carnivorous and ‘Val’
denotes festival. Hence it translates into Christians before going into 40 days
of Lenten season could enjoy meats. And from ‘Ash Wednesday’ observe fast and
abstinence of meats.
I doubt if the Tourism Minister Parulekar has
any knowledge of this aspect of carnival. But by his stupid plan to introduce
dress code, he has taken half the charm out of carnival.
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| Tourism minister Dilip Parulekar |
So also by his order he has over-ruled the
decree of King Momo who is supposed to be the ruler for the three days of
carnival. King Momo before setting on his entourage declares the carnival open
and passes his decree to eat, drink and make merry during his three day rule.”
Parulekar has not spelled out what he means
by vulgar. Does that mean when men dance wearing women clothes? Does it
curtail women and girls wearing short outfits or does it prohibit display of
cleavage?
The ministers in the BJP government be it
their own Dilip Parulekar or MGP PWD minister Sudin Dhavlikar seems to have
some sort of complex. This Dhavlikar had sought to ban wearing bikini on the
beaches. It seems like these men are skewed in their heads to the extent that
they act like perverts themselves.
Instead of making observations of who is
wearing what or adopting a stance of deciding for the women what they should wear is
an insult to the fairer sex itself. Clothed or nude nobody has the right to
molest, abuse, violate or rape women. Goa would be better off if these two ministers channelize
their energies in providing safety to women.
Keeping our women safe from prowlers and
rapists. Three years old toddlers are being raped, 6 years old children are
being raped, 60 years old women are being raped. Is it because they were
scantily dressed? No, it is because of the perverted minds of men who look at
fairer sex as an object of pleasure.
The governments and its ministers should try
to change the mindset of perverted men through education, reformatory measures
or punishment. The government has to protect girls from eve-teasers, molesters,
etc. Dress code or no dress code these perverted men flock to such revelry with
one motive and that is to lay their hands on women.
Tourism minister Dilip Parulekar instead of
enforcing dress code should use the police to be stringent with male revellers
from passing vulgar comments, cat-calls
For using the excuse of applying talcum to molest girls. It would have
been much better for PWD minister Sudin Dhavlikar to urge his government to act
against those Indian men who ogle at women wearing bikinis at the beach instead of trying to stop women from wearing what they want.
It would have been prudent on the part the
Tourism minister Dilip Parulekar to put warning notices all over the carnival
parade grounds warning men of abusing festive mood to molest or violate the fairer sex.
Basically what these two ministers in the BJP
government want to do in the long run is to stop western culture. But Sudin
Dhavlikar and Dilip Parulekar are not ready to lead by example.
It is an open challenge to these two ‘montris’ to first
shed their foreign underwears and instead wear ‘kashti’ (loin cloth). Then to
discard their trousers and shirts and wear dhoti or lungi and sleeveless banyan
(singlet) or kurta.
And if they cannot do that then they have no
right to tell our womenfolk what to wear.
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