An open letter to Mr Gere: Apology rejected !

[Guest guest]

An open letter to Mr Gere

Sudhir M, New Delhi, May 08, 2007

Dear Mr Gere,

On behalf of the Indian people I regret to inform you that your offer

to apologise for violating the modesty of an Indian lady is rejected!

We, the people of India, do not accept such acts of lewdness and open

display of affection in public. What you did was morally wrong and

socially unacceptable in India and has hurt the feelings of every

Indian.

Let me demonstrate to you the enormity of your error. Even Vatsayana,

in his epic Kamasutra, has not dared to depict any kissing scenes. He

explains and depicts various positions for sexual intercourse but

none for kissing. Likewise, our temples all over and Khajuraho in

particular depict explicit sexual scenes but none of male and female

forms are ever shown kissing each other. This kind of intimacy is

simply not acceptable. That is why you will never see men and women

kiss each other in India.

We are proud that we do not engage in visible exhibition of our

affection. We have other ways of showing our caring love and

affection and respect for women. Mostly, we show our respect for

women by raping them. At times it is done in groups of several men

which is our way of paying tribute to the strength of the female form

that it requires enormous effort by men to subdue.

We also love and respect our women enough that we force them to get a

handsome dowry from their parents at the time of wedding and then

throughout her life. This is done to ensure that she is able to lead

a comfortable life. If for whatever reasons, the parents are unable

to fund the dowry requirements, we normally tend to kill our brides

by burning them or pushing them from the roof a tall building or

force them to commit suicide to save them from discomfort and guilt

that she was unable to provide a comfortable life to her husband and

his parents and his uncles and aunts and his nephews and nieces etc.

Mr Gere, in India, the female form is equated with Devi i.e. goddess.

We very firmly believe in this and that is why we have no hesitation

in piling her with all responsibilities, hard work and hardships. In

many parts of our country, when a man dies, his wife is expected and

made to self immolate only to save her from the guilt of not having

been able to protect and save her husband despite of her being a form

of goddess.

I hope it has become abundantly clear to you that we care and respect

our women enough that we cannot accept your immoral behaviour. Had

you proceeded to rape Ms Shetty (with a condom on, of course, in line

with your prevention of AIDS advocacy), we would probably not have

found the act as offensive.

While you would be in trouble with the law, the people of India would

have not had any issue with you as this is a common occurrence for

them.

I hope you have learnt your lesson and in the future rape an Indian

woman before engaging in heinous act of kissing her in public. We

could be in trouble with law in both cases but at least if you rape

her, people will not say that you are inhuman, insensitive and

immoral.

Moreover, in case you do commit a rape, the law is likely to take a

while to catch up with you because unlike kissing in public there are

so many rapes happening everyday. And then you are likely to get off

on a technicality.

Sudhir M is a common man from the streets of India and can be reached

at sm789@....

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/FullcoverageStoryPage.aspx?

id=5f7e4cac-4c9f-4cf1-ad17-

e735a921ec54fatalattraction_Special & & Headline=An+open+letter+to+Mr+Ric

hard+Gere