{"id":5588,"date":"2007-05-25T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2007-05-25T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T13:55:00","slug":"orthodox-culture-demands-a-visible-belly-salwar-vs-sari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/orthodox-culture-demands-a-visible-belly-salwar-vs-sari\/","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox culture demands a visible belly"},"content":{"rendered":"
That’s the only conclusion I can draw from this news report<\/a>:<\/p>\n A man told a judge in the Calcutta High Court that he and his family did not want his wife, whom he had driven out of home, to wear a salwar kameez.<\/p>\n The husband, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, drew the attention of Justice Partha Sakha Dutta to the red salwar kameez his wife Rupali was wearing during the court proceeding, a dress worn by millions of Indian women.<\/p>\n “We are an orthodox family. We cannot accept such dresses, she should wear a sari,” the husband told an astonished Justice Dutta.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What I find sad is that the judge “directed Dibyendu to take his wife and child home and asked him not to create problems over such trivial issues.” I presume she was constrained by a lack of economic independence, for why would any sensible woman want to live with a man like that?<\/p>\n Also, how could “millions of Indian women” have worn “the red salwar kameez his wife Rupali was wearing”? Couldn’t they have worn their own salwar kameezes?<\/p>\n (You can read my other posts mentioning salwars here<\/a> and here<\/a>. I’m a huge fan. Cows should wear salwars.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s the only conclusion I can draw from this news report<\/a>:<\/p>\n A man told a judge in the Calcutta High Court that he and his family did not want his wife, whom he had driven out of home, to wear a salwar kameez.<\/p>\n The husband, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, drew the attention of Justice Partha Sakha Dutta to the red salwar kameez his wife Rupali was wearing during the court proceeding, a dress worn by millions of Indian women.<\/p>\n “We are an orthodox family. We cannot accept such dresses, she should wear a sari,” the husband told an astonished Justice Dutta.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What I find sad is that the judge “directed Dibyendu to take his wife and child home and asked him not to create problems over such trivial issues.” I presume she was constrained by a lack of economic independence, for why would any sensible woman want to live with a man like that?<\/p>\n Also, how could “millions of Indian women” have worn “the red salwar kameez his wife Rupali was wearing”? Couldn’t they have worn their own salwar kameezes?<\/p>\n (You can read my other posts mentioning salwars here<\/a> and here<\/a>. I’m a huge fan. Cows should wear salwars.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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