golpitha

mini guide on how to avoid molestation

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,Monday, November 19,2007: Golpitha is the name of a Marathi,(a daughter language of the Indo-European origin classic Sanskrit),poetry book written by a sweeper´s son,poet and founder of India´s Black Panther, dalith/ down trodden s´ political movement in the late 60s, Mr.Namdev Dhasal.In one of the poems there Namdev suggests to India´s left politicians, who are mostly upper crust brahmins as was the late Mr.S.A.Dange, = go you brahmins and marxists, take a dip in the sewage canal here through a man hole.That is what the hight of your =Sanatana Dharma=, meant the highly proclaimed Hinduism.He knew what he was writing because it was inherited duty of his down trodden class to keep the city clean and see the sewage disposal routes are operational. Golpitha is also the land mark in Bombay being the center of the city´s red light district where temple girls known as devdasis from the Godavari and Krishna river systems are traded,on hour
basis or contract basis.There are huge bungalows and small cubicles where these girls are deployed as sex workers.There are also imported girls now mostly from Nepal, formerly from China and Europe as well, the Eropean quarters being labelled =safed= Hindi for white color,the Chinese quarters as China Town.The European girls worked in the bungalows in the same conditions described in Alexander Kuprin´s novel =yama, the pit=.In this area most men walking about are buyers or sellers.The girls are but marketed =service providers=.The sweeper females, during day time clean the streets.At nights they are under contract by the service domain owners to store water for the girls and to do some minimum cleaning of the marketing area.They also serve as eyes of the policing system to earn additional bread as advised by Kautilya´s Arthashastra of pre- Christian era.

This =service providing= is every where in the world.(Today,in Europe and Americas,there are also gigolo Vedvyasas advertising their readiness to deputize any missing male companion).But the specialty of this place is that it was first organized for entertaining male labor mostly drawn for the textile mills from rural districts.In other parts of the world sex workers are employed mostly for mobile middle class singles. In Indian cities such demands are met by call girls or not so public places.With forced suppression of female sex ratio Indian men,I am rudely awakened now,have become sex robbers,described as eve teasers and molesters.Some one forwarded me today =23 ways to prevent molestation in public=,that is a mini red book on how to escape male robbers or thieves of the female sex by Ms.Nita J.Kulkarni, who has her own blogspot. That is: http//nitawriter.wordpress.com When I read the dos and don´ts I realize there is no safe haven for a female in India.From the mother´s womb, =she= is abortively expelled as undesirable.Once having come to the world, she should be under guard even from holy men.In the olden times under Manu´s law, established about four hundred years before Christ era, she is guarded by father during childhood, when she became adult by, why humiliate a man with the word =husband= I call him respectfully =hisbend=,when she is old, the son takes care of the mother! Then comes the finality: =na stree svatantryam arhati=.That means Hindu females are permanently destined to live in the private cages of Golpitha.Ms.Kulkarni guides please avoid crowds even in holy places or the assembly of holy devotional men.In theater and cinemas make male companion sit next to you. What about the other side? Tactfully arrange with another couple or hire a watch from the theatre management.Avoid going through the deserted areas. I was reminded when I walked at midnight on the Worli side of the Bhavani Shankar Road in early sixties, a police constable told me the place was dangerous as the location was lonely.I could be robbed,although my pocket was paisaless. Buses are dangerous,eateries are not safe, at unavoidable work places be careful.Here is a quotation from her experience of Pune where she was born and went to school.In her early teens as she was climbing a bus route 35, was an (un)holy man not naked.=a sadhu in orange robes,he was climbing into the bus behind me took out his unholy =thing= (that is erect penis, udbhava linga in Saibaba language) and he tried to touch me with it. It was one of the sickest experiences I have had!= =Bap re bap toba toba = (father oh father) what a life!

It is not much different in the =land of holy places= where there is a special =virtue police= to
watch and demand the proof that the male companion is indeed a close relation.Of course with some cash the proof can be arranged,after all the female is not allowed to show face.Her identity card is not acceptable unless validated by a male presence!She can not drive a car. Recently a well educated young woman wrote in her exasperation:= when women in Saudi Arabia are considered adults?=.Besides, we can read in newspapers citing Q´uran and =hadith=, meaning Islamic =purana= or vertical gossip, how the =hisbend= can enjoy his =conjugal rights= during the wife´s the monthly period.Often a verse in Q´uran is quoted to justify wife beating as corrective measure.Just a couple of days ago there was a news report that a 22 year old mother and the child, spent two years as under trials in prison and still are awaiting hearing of the case as the mother married a man on her own free will to get the child without approval of a male.

I hope a young woman in India works on a Dale Carnegie type guide book on how to prevent the mindless =hisbends= from exercising their conjugal rights when a child is sick, the female partner herself is unwell etc.Research should be made and care should be taken Hindu vertical gossip known as =puranas= are obeyed and not violated by the females.Besides, for the foreign tourists who bring hard earned hard currency to India another best seller on how to travel in the country of ancient modernity, where even monkey gods cover their shame, private parts to walk on stage as fashion models! The exception of course is =mother cow=. She is allowed to go about without Banarasi, Ilkal,Kanjeevaram or Dharmavaram saries wrapped around. Even then they can not complain being molested as in Deve Gowda´s Karnataka =tayi ganda= or =mother´s hisbend= is a much loved honorific. In mature developed world, we appreciate women´s voluntariness.We are supportive, we like them share any happiness with family and friends of either sex.The same voluntariness that makes the foundation for any democracy in socio-political context.(end)