Today I decided to give my car a break( yes I also worry about the environment and my petrol money too ;-) ) and take the Metro to Gurgaon. Had already planned to meet up with some aaa.... rather 2 of my closest friends or rather girl friends.
I reached the station and was amazed to see the first compartment reserved for women in the metro. Even the platform had nice pink markers with flowers on it marking the spot where the first compartment would stop and telling you that that place was reserved for women(though they looked more link adverts for breast cancer or maybe i have had an overdose of those adverts and cervical cancer adverts but maybe that is another story another day). As the train arrived i still saw some men sitting in them.. oh well so much for India but since it was the first day maybe they dint know or they dint really care. anyhow i climbed on and the train was acceptable Not much like what i had heard of being overcrowded.. but yes the lack of fairer sex in my compartment was striking. finally soon i reached the MG road metro station and climbed down waiting for my friends.. All i see around me is a sea of women with short er... shorter clothes..
Women of all ages 12- 60, shapes slime to fat, sizes small to tall . just women and women. single women, group of women, couples just women.... with short..shorter clothes and oodles of skin ...shorts, mini skirts, really short shorts, small tops, dresses which were soooo small that i cant describe here in my own words cause they might be unacceptable to people. No no I'm no ogler or any kind pr pervert but if u think this is about sex then you bet it is but not the kinds of bees and birds..this is about the modern bold women in modern cosmopolitan India rather upmarket places like Gurgaon and posh areas of Delhi like GK. Couple of women pass by both in early 30's and one wearing a as my friend later told me was a spaghetti top ( why do women have clothes named after food? do they want men to eat them or what?). okay! this women was well endowed and stuff popping out of everywhere.. yes might be feast to some eyes but was yuk to me.. why cant some people do stuff in style? but she sure had some attitude to do that which here is the positive thing...
Anyway after large part of the day mall hopping and checking out all kinds of stuff including food and women and their skin show we landed up at the Landmark book store to pick up some stuff.. the girls picked their "magjines" and i looked through some geeky books... was looking for some nice non fiction stuff or some really nice self help kinds (no i don't read them but want to read a few of them just to see why do they sell so many of them). Dint find anything interesting or at a price I would be willing to pay for them, maybe will wait for the sale. anyway while checking out our stack of books and magazines I saw these 2 women.. both in shorts and spaghetti tops.. nice fair tall slim.. the works if u get it with a 3 year old kid with them.. one them was dress exactly like the fame i saw first when i landed in Gurgaon (one with large assets) but looked so much better. She knew how to carry herself much simpler. less makeup.. simply awesome...Dont know who said but he was right beauty is in simplicity.
Soon i was on my way back home on the metro and this time a young couple hopped on to the train. the girl dressed in a modern low cut dress with a kind of short skirt..Quiet aware of showy dress and trying hard to hide her legs and cleavage.. she surely dint belong on the train maybe was just trying it out.. someone like her could have stepped straigt out of a corolla or a civic. But she was cute and nice if I may say so..she got off at Saket all trying to pull her clothes together tryiing to cover as much of her as she could...
You must be wondering about my ramblings they don't make sense.. yes they do.. what i have described are 3 women all dressed in similar outfits more or less similar age group say maybe 24 to 32 tops but how different their approach was. one is confident and OTT, one is sexy, bold and smart... maybe a professional too. the third is a cute young not yet spoiled by the nuisances of the modern life yet knows what she wants but is still stuck to the roots kinds of women. which one i liked? All three. they all belong to different places, backgrounds, lifestyles but all belong to the modern independent India. Where women are (more.. and more...) not howled at or ogled at even if a little bit of knee or shoulder is shown. Here some of these women had more than just the lingerie or cleavage showing. But no one was howling, teasing or even ogling at them. Everyone was busy with their own things.. I'm happy to see such an India. but afraid that it may go to an extreme where the tradition of an Indian women may get lost.. Hope these young women know where to draw the line. when to stop and when to cover.. The third youngest of all in her mid twenties gave me hope.
I'm afraid that one day if i have a daughter my also be wanting to wear short clothes. the thought gives me shudders. But hope that she will have the head on her shoulders to think and then decide whats right and wrong, whats the difference between being bold and vulgar, being nice and cute and sexy.
I hope. i hope...
PS: My female friends insist i have had an overdose of skin. i need to go back to being geeky and read books and play on my PlayStation :)
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