Missing The Point

This post is one of the smaller posts on the blog. It’s about the DelhiGangRape of a 23 year old Medical Student. The news of the atrocities of barbaric lust spread like fire in summer. TV channels, newspapers, celebrities, politicians, social media hid nothing and poured out all the anger after her anguish.  The chills of her torture chilled the people of Delhi more than the cold air of Delhi winter.

The politicians sticking to their profession spoke of and about each other. Some spoke of more laws and reforms, but on the very same day there was a scuffle in the parliament (ministers hitting and fighting each other literally) and the house was adjourned at half day. 

NGO’s, Human Rights people, Women’s Rights people and hundreds and thousands of people came down to the streets to protest. People came down to meet the CM and question her about each other’s safety in Delhi, but the reply they received was jets of water from a police hose.

Just today I got a message on my whatsapp, it read

Dear Delhi,

I know I don’t have your 4 lame roads, and metros, and posh kothis, my people drive on narrow roads, live in small houses, travel in non-ac locals. Maybe your winters have made all your hearts cold. My women are safe, irrespective of their cloths, the time or the mode of transport, because I am always watching, I never sleep.

Sincerely

Mumbai

I was both shocked and saddened by this. It’s adding insult to injury. It looks like the Mumbaikars just see this as a chance to undermine Delhi. Would they really do that? The people of Mumbai are better than that.

Another, rather popular concept is that our society tells women what to wear than teaching men not to rape. Yes, that does sound good, and also seems to make sense. But does it really??

In the two scenes above, we have looked at two different things,

1.       It’s about Delhi

2.       It’s about men

But we have forgotten the heart of the matter; the crime.

Delhi might have the highest number of rapes, eve teasing or other assaults on women, but it’s not about the place or the people. It’s the weakness of the system that fails to curb or punish the crime, thereby failing completely to instil any sort of fear in the perpetuators.

Coming to the second point; there is no meaning to making the crime sexist. Of course, we live in a male dominated society and women have been victimised even in this era. In most rape cases when women come forth to complain or fight, they have been called to be the reason for the rape, calling them (the victim) to be the reason for the crime. People have spoken as if the women deserved to be raped, and that’s where they said that women need to dress responsibly. Women or anyone would take offence at that. And that’s why there came the expression of “women are taught to dress instead of men taught not to rape” 

Anyone who holds the victim responsible is surely out of his senses, but there is no reason to make it sexist. See the crime as a crime. 

Why do we lock our doors at night? To save ourselves from being robbed. Does someone come up and say we live in a society that teaches us to lock our doors instead of teaching thieves not to steal? No.. because theres no problem in seeing a crime as a crime there. But when it comes to rape it suddenly gets sexist. Maybe if we had some male rape victims or female rapists then the story would’ve been different. But as Batman said, a criminal is not complicated. Nor is a crime, as long as we can see what’s in the heart of the crime and not what’s around its perimeter.

Fashionataion

Hey why don’t you post it on your blog too? I’ll give you a free shirt :P thats the reason for this post :D

A friend of mine just joined hands with one of his friends from his days in the UK to deal in fashion. I didn’t really understand what they meant to do but I had a feeling that they were gonna make an online clothing store and sell cloths. As simple as that. But as it turns out, its not that simple. 

I found out about the real deal of craziness… or lets say freakological obsession with fashion and sense of style was clearly pointing to the fact that they had their heads working on doing something bigger.  My friend asked me to write an seo article that could help route traffic towards their site. It  wasn’t  really that hard, but this was only my second article on fashion. The first one was on nail art! :P

Anyway so as I went on writing I did realize that some of the things I said in the write were actually true! :O I know! That never happens in advertisement articles right? At least not mine! :P So I went ahead and looked at the site.. they really did have designers live on the site.. and I just wondered for a sec if I could get someone to stitch me something that’s exactly my size! :D ok im not that bothered about cloths.. cuz I kinda believed that it’s the ‘who’ more important than the ‘what’ or maybe I said it cuz I just couldn’t find fitting cloths :P (just in case your thinking I’m fat.. im not :P)

Ok so heres the article I wrote for him... I’m posting it here cuz hes my bud and well… yeah also for the free shirt :P 

Fashionation is not a real word, at least not yet. It’s a made up word for fashion and fascination. Fashion in a bird’s eye view can mean a way of life where everything you do or wear intrigues and makes a statement. The general perception of fashion is looking good or using something that can make you look good. A fashionable phone or a fashionable article of clothing is generally perceived to be a good looking merchandise that brings you appreciation. Sadly, that’s probably the worst way of defining fashion. 

 

 As I’m writing this article in the wake of a new online clothing store that I saw over the weekend, let’s stick to cloths as fashion. Clothing is probably the biggest way of looking fashionable, and over centuries, people have been expressing themselves by creating and wearing different kinds of cloths. This idea of expression of feelings, thoughts and ideas through dressing cracked open a whole new world of designers and trend makers across the globe. Today as we make way for a world of freedom and expression, we see more and more people taking up this creative way of expressing and adding the much required glamour and valor to the cause.

The biggest dread of all fashion enthusiasts is keeping up with fashion. Being aware of where to find what and when to do what is another major road bump. Just the other day, my friend visiting Bangalore for the first time asked me ‘who’s cloths are hot in Bangalore this winter?’ I fell face first at that. I had no idea of the designers in Bangalore, I always bought from sites or stores that had decent looking cloths. I Looked up a few regular sites online, but couldn’t find anything that tells me who’s selling what. That’s when I stumbled upon www.mydesignersales.com

 

mydesignersales is the online store of a Bangalore based Clothing and Fashion Corporation called United Fashion Mart. The firm itself deals in the manufacture and sales of apparels and accessories with zeal for spreading awareness and tasteful sense of fashion across masses. mydesignersales being the online store makes access to fashion more reachable and affordable to all.  Plus Being in Bangalore, it’s only a matter of time before there are free reigning fashion stylists running amok on the streets!

mydesignersales takes a whole new approach to selling cloths online. It’s like an online version of a boutique where you can get to personally see, meet and socialize with your designers online. mydesignersales has a list of the top selling fashion stylists from different cities across India, or maybe even the world. Going to Delhi for a week? Buy the top selling designs of Delhi in Bangalore and blend in to the Delhi crowd! Try! Designers like Julie Kagti, Anu Nagappa and Arjun Agarwal are some of the top selling labels on mydesignersales. 

Apart from giving you the advantage of meeting your designer, if you’re really really nice and of course ready to pay a little, you can even place requests and get your own designs loaded onto the website! That’s definitely got to be a first! mydesignersales clearly has a lot of new things to offer. In the end, making people express themselves and reflect their personalities using the powers of fashion is what these FashionFreaks aim at. That’s why they say, each time you visit mydesignersales, you’re assured of fashionation! ;)

That was it! Buy clothes from my frn y’all :D 

Oh btw.. if you think Im good at seo then.. you can mail me.. I write for free shirts all the time :P