Do Cheerleaders in Cricket corrupt Indians?
The Indian Premier League has hit the world cricket scene with a big bang. Cricketers are seeing salaries never dreamed of before and the audiences are being treated to a variety of entertainment in the cricket stadium as a by-product of purchasing expensive tickets. So what’s new? American cheerleaders, German acrobats and many other entertaining tidbits picked from around the world.
The issue that has caught the attention of Mumbai parliamentarians is the scantily-clad cheerleaders in the IPL matches. That they even discuss such an irrelevant topic in the Assembly is a travesty of their roles as elected leaders to work for Maharashtra’s progress. First they banned dance-bars, a traditional and established entertainment in Mumbai. It becomes very tricky when lawmakers decide what is culture and what is not and set laws to “protect” culture.
Maharashtra MLAs say they are “protecting” Indian culture and Indian women and that it is not respectable for women to be shown semi-nude. This coming from Mumbai which is host to the largest film industry in the world which frequently features scantily-clad women dancing around men in its music and movies is ironic. That Indian culture needs protection through laws seems to imply that our culture and values are very weak.
So now that they see dancing cheerleaders as inimical to Indian culture, what next? Will they ban visits to Indian temples with erotic architecture - the Ajanta and Ellora caves in Maharashtra? Will they ban mini-skirts and shorts for women? Apparently, it is only the women that need protection - how very chivalrous of the Mumbai Assembly! Will they ban display of erotic art and publishing erotic literature?
Erotica is one of the numerous pillars of Indian culture. India is the birthplace of the Kamasutra and other treatises on Kama Shastra. So how will cheerleaders with half-exposed breasts and legs dancing on the cricket field hurt Indian culture? If the cheerleaders were Indian, would the lawmakers be offended too? Or would it be OK since semi-nude Indian women are a constant feature of Bollywood movies?
Do you want to see dancing American cheerleaders in the IPL in Mumbai? Or not?
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