On Feb 13, 2013, at 7:06 AM, "muriel&mario" <another...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Goa Netters, But it’s not just India. It’s not just Goa. It is every vaddo of our villages too! Do not wait because it has not happened to your daughter; your wife; your mother; your neighbour; your friend...yet. Actually it is happening right now. Yes, in our very neighbourhood. But we are imprisoned within a 'culture of silence' by jailor-patriarchs-cum-assailants who will not let the silent screams be heard. *It is time to rise up M&M. RESPONSE: Thank You M & M for that timely post. Despite ALL the achievements and bravado, we have NOT yet grown up and stopped behaving like mean spirited animals. From honor killings to dowry deaths to gang rapes. 'We' are supposed to be a 'shining' and 'mahan' India that is Bharat? A place where after decades of groping, special compartments and trains have to be organized to try protect women from these animals? and "We" are 'Proud to be Indian'? Give me a break! jc http://www.colaco.net/1/caste.htm Women had a special place in this ancient subcontinental society........in the background!. They were denied the opportunity to learn Sanskrit and had to be satisfied with the dialect Prakrit. Sanskrit was the domain of the Brahmin men. The women were hence relegated to subservient positions. They were there, as it were, to cook, clean, sing, dance and for the sexual pleasure of the men folk until it was time to jump into the funeral pyre in order to become a 'sati'. In this regard, the Kamasutra texts make interesting reading. ps on Feb 13, 2013 ..... The day before 'Valentine's Day': HAS MUCH CHANGED FOR WOMEN since those ancient days?
