Dear Readers,
Such a pleasure it is to hang out with junior members of your alma mater. Today, I met two of mine and enjoyed an unwinding dinner with them atop the terrace restaurant at Harasar Havelli. We talked at length about the changes that have creeped into our adorable campuses that make life so different from what it used to be. Then we surveyed each other's travel extravagances and future itineraries only to feel more jealous of one another.
It was startling to learn from one of my friends that she had to face a lot of problems while using the archives at Jodhpur and Bikaner. She held the stark cultural differences between urbane Delhi and rustic small towns of western Rajasthan responsible for much of her mental harassment( This has got absolutely nothing to do with the name of the restaurant I mentioned above). Well! All I could do was to give her a glimpse into the psyche of Rajasthani men.
On later deliberation, I realised that in any culture where women are suppressed and subdued and where patriarchy is the driving principle of the society, men would naturally exhibit double standards regarding their orientaion towards the opposite sex. They would want women to 'cover' themselves up failing which they would have to become targets of uncouth aggression. The remedy lies in making the menfolk more aware by means of sensitising education.
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