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Imagine asking girls to not talk about something as simple as bras and panties while talking to their friends.
That’s exactly how the Mahavidylaya Theatre Festival of Sahitya Kala Academy wanted actors from Kamala Nehru College’s theatre group to talk when presenting a production about the lives of six college girls.
In a play replete with actual expletives, as is the way young people often talk, the judges took offence to the words “bra” and “panty”, reportedly disqualifying the college students’ play.
‘Lakshya’, the theatre group of Kamala Nehru, was performing their play Shahira Ke Naam on Friday at Sahitya Kala Parishad. The society’s faculty convener Monami Basu wrote a public post that the play was disqualified for “not using cuss words, but inappropriate language”.
She said that they judges couldn’t even bring themselves to say the simple words which their sensibilities found so abhorrent.
She further pointed out the hypocrisy of a society which readily strips down a woman to her undergarments yet cannot say those words or hear them in conversation.
The society’s president Radhika Dhawan also criticised the event in a post saying something as trivial as women’s undergarments had become obscene for an audience.
It’s a society which will “use sexually violent language yet cannot tolerate a woman talking about her undergarments”.
More power to the women speaking up against the ridiculous and hypocritical censorship imposed on them and their bodies.
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Published: 30 Jan 2017,05:56 PM IST