[കേ.ശാ.സാ.പ] Re: [കേ.ശാ.സാ.à´ª] Re: Women's harassment in Kerala

Dear all,

  I do feel the usage "manorama Girls" are quite
awkward. More or equal number of men also read
Manorama and watch soap serials. So let us forget
about the usage.

  Marie Marcel Thekkekkara has tried to bite a corner
of the problem and create a "make believe" that it is
reality. Before questioning the bravery of girls in
Kerala, why should she compare it with the "literacy
rate" What is the one to one relationship between
literacy & empowerment? I can confidently talk about
our neighbouring state, TamilNadu. Women in Tamilnadu
are not as literate as Kerala women. But they are bold
enough to tell the person(whether man or woman) who
harass them to keep away or go to hell. (the tamil
word they say is " yeh, Innayya, Thontharavu Pannare<
Naalu Saathu Sathattuma? means why are you troubling
me? should I give you four or five slaps? )
For reacting like this, one need not have education.
  Still.... could our so called literacy helps our
women in facing such issues? What does our education
do? One need to evaluate the curriculum .... how
gender sensitive it is. what teachings does it give
to our girls etc... It is high time to do that.

   Harassment of this type is not only in Kerala but
everywhere else. It depends how seriously one sees the
matter. And also probe why? why does it happen?
                                      anandi.

--- deepak p <deepakp7_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess there are certain things which have to be
> brought out. Some of those
> things include "Witchcraft", "Sexual Harrassment of
> Women", "Ego problems of
> the malayalee" and a lot of such things. I feel
> Manorama has been quite
> successful in bringing out many of such things.
>
> Deepak
>
>
> On 5/14/07, Arun Shivanandan
> <arun.shivanandan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mr Vijayachandran,
> > I said "seen and experianced" in real life. By
> this, I was trying to say
> > that many of my male schoolmates,collegemates, and
> some of my friends and
> > acquaintances, indulge in these activities. Many
> of them studied in the best
> > engineering colleges in the state and the country,
> and some others have not
> > gone beyond SSLC. I do not know whether they have
> done this in Madrass mail
> > or Bangalore Express, but many of them have done
> this in busy trains and
> > buses in and around Kerala. I also know about this
> from some of the
> > girls/women I know. As I have been mentioning all
> throughout, many of them
> > carry a "safety pin" as a weapon. One of the
> anecdote made me know that this
> > "method of prevention" was suggested by the school
> teachers themselves when
> > a friend went on an "excursion" to TVM City.
> >
> > I told about your reply to a girl who has
> mentioned this to me, and she
> > called it "disgusting". The way you have called
> the reporters "Manorama
> > girls" speak of your mindset.
> >
> > If you are so against Manorama, even they, by
> mistake or otherwise, tell
> > some truth once in an eon, there is a program
> named "akathalam" in Asianet
> > Global. They refer to such issues once in a while.
> Kalpana Sharma's
> > write-up in The Hindu
> >
>
<http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/08/08/stories/2004080800240300.htm>is
> > based on the manorama report, so you might not
> want to believe it. Also,
> > Marcel Thekkekkara's write-up do not say about
> what happened in Madras
> > Mail, but something about the Women in "Prabhudha
>
Keralam"<http://www.countercurrents.org/gender-marcel080305.htm>
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Arun.
> >
> > -----------
> > There were two responses to my rejoinder involving
> Manorama Girls: one
> > from Arun and the other from Deepak:
> > My referance was to the articles serialised in
> Malayala Manorama by some
> > five girl reporters, a couple of years ago, based
> on their own exeprience
> > in Madras Mail, market places tc etc which were
> nothing but pre-planned
> > escapades or experiments. The present discussion
> was initiated by somebody
> > (I do not remember, who) by calling attention to
> the web site which had
> > summarised the serial by these Manorama reporters.
> Arun says his responses
> > were based on his own experiences (in the train ?)
> and not based on the
> > Manorama reports. I confirm that my response was
> based on my own experience
> > in train travel, which seem to be much in conflict
> with those of the
> > Manorama reporters. My submission is simple: Let
> us be objective and take
> > care not to interpret aberrations here and there
> > as the general pattern.
> > K Vijayachandran
> > deepak p <deepakp7_at_gmail.com> wrote: Sorry about
> this question, but I do
> > not understand the phrase "Manorama Girls". Do you
> mean, girls who are
> > readers of "Ma" - publications?
> >
> > On 5/14/07, Kuttappan Vijayachandran
> <kvijaya40_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > 14.05.07: These eve teasing stories and
> discussions around them are
> > nauseating: The Madras mail and other stories of
> the Manorama girl
> > reporters, now publicised through the Net, are
> gross exaggerations: It had
> > nothing to do with Kerala reality. I had travelled
> by the very same
> > compartment of the Madras Mail on several
> occasions, from Quilon to
> > Ernakulam. Not even once, had I witnessed scenes
> similar to the one
> > described by the Manorama girls. There is plenty
> of hypocrisy with the
> > Malayalee Middle Class: even the soft porn
> stories, as told by the Manorama
> > girls, are products of this hypocrisy, reminiscent
> of Victorian puritanism.
> > Such stories are source of great enjoyment for the
> perverted minds of a
> > majority of Manorama readers, and has helped that
> paper in reaching the
> > current readership heights. What is to be attacked
> and exposed are these
> > cultural distortions perpetrated by mercenary
> interests, and not
> > the vastly innocent express trains and crowded
> compartments of Indian
> > Railways.
> > K Vijayachandran
> > 14.05.07
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Deepak P
> http://deepakp7.googlepages.com/
>
>
>
>

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