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August 08, 2005
About a Training School for Girls About to Be Women...And the need for Strong Hands
I first read about this on Uma's site and followed the link to Amit's site for a hilarious take-off. The original article appeared in yesterday's TOI, but apparently according to Charu, this had appeared earlier in the Hindu and on Rediff.
These links per se should suffice, but just to encapsulate. Bhopal has a training institute for girls, where they are taught to be ideal housewives. Apart from regular, mundane stuff like how to cook and take care of the in-laws, they are also taught some really interesting stuff that includes, having sex between 12midnight and 3AM and singing bhajans between 3AM and 6AM. The funniest part however is the one where the article describes the five ornaments of a good wife. To quote "an ideal wife must have five "ornaments" — coyness in her eyes, smile on her face, sweetness in her speech, love in her heart and a hand that can work very hard. " I love the last "a hand that can work very hard" part. Amazingly evocative!
Honestly, this is not a joke. And apparently there are training camps being held in other parts of the country as well, based on the success of this one. So maybe in the future we'll start seeing matrimonials that mention that they have obtained a training certificate from Hemnani? ....And another certificate of having done weights to strengthen their hands?
Posted by bhavinj at August 8, 2005 08:55 PM
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yup, isn't this the pits? my first reaction was to treat this a big joke - but then the more you think about it, the more scary it sounds... and yes, it appeared in the Hindu and rediff in august / july 2003.
Posted by: Charu at August 8, 2005 09:32 PM
Its amazing what kind of markets can be created. And the more fundamentalist that you get, the more people seems to be gravitating away from the centre and from liberal ideas.
Posted by: MFM/Bhavin at August 9, 2005 02:51 PM
yes
Posted by: sairam at October 31, 2005 12:45 PM
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