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Yeh Jo India Hai Na… Uttarakhand ke CM kuch bhi kahein… yahaan par everybody loves ripped jeans.
Delhi NCR ke Noida area ka famous Atta Market – every small pavement stall sells ripped jeans of every kind here: kum ripped, zyaada ripped, totally ripped! Rs 400-600 ke rate par – not too expensive. Meaning lakhs of girls can afford them. Shopkeepers told me they sell around 15-20 a day and I saw at least 30-40 shops there. So, just Atta Market easily makes Rs 120 crore a year by selling ripped jeans. So, straight message for Tirath Singh Rawat – ripped jeans are here to stay.
But I tell you, in a world where jeans marries moral policing, there is more to worry about. I would urge the CM to check out these other ‘problematic’ types of jeans – we cannot be OK with:
I would suggest an ordinance against these several doubtful categories of jeans and to ensure that no ripped jeans escaped scrutiny. The ordinance must cover every kind of ripped jeans –
But apart from ripped jeans, there are other things the Uttarakhand CM needs to worry about. First of course, he has tested positive for COVID-19, so while we wish him a full recovery, we hope he will now not insist on removing COVID dos and don’ts for Kumbh Mela devotees and follow the Central government’s advice.
But more importantly, he needs to focus the real issues facing Uttarakhand’s women:
Yes, these are not Rawat’s problem alone. He’s inherited them. But CM saab, why add to your list of things to set right?
Mr Rawat is not alone in his sexism. And this is not about a BJP-ruled state either. Sexism has been expressed by politicians across India. And not just politicians, this attitude exists in the bureaucracy, in the police, in the judiciary. Just some days ago, India’s Supreme Court asked a man whether he would marry the woman who had accused him of raping her when she was a minor.
One thought about about Mithali Raj – India’s top woman cricketer! Just recently, she scored her 10,000th international run and we cheered. Rightly so. But look closer. Mithali Raj played just 10 test matches in her career, making 663 test cricket runs. Yes, she has played over 200 ODIs in 22 years but almost no tests.
Now, imagine taking Sachin Tendulkar’s test career out of his life story! Delete those 200 tests, those 51 centuries, those 16,000 runs! Wouldn’t we all feel cheated? And yet, isn’t that what has happened to Mithali Raj?
Yeh Jo India Hai Nah… we need to embrace ripped jeans, we need to embrace every choice made by every woman of this country...
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