Go trail my daughter
charukesi October 11th, 2007
Today’s Hindustan Times has this piece on the front page - Sherlock Holmes has a dandiya job - which means ‘parents hire sleuths to stalk flirty youngsters’ as they go around whirling and twirling to Phalguni Pathak’s dandiya music this Navratri.
“They want to know who their girl is with, whether she is having sex,” said Rahul Nanda, CMD of Tops Security. A mother of a sixteen year old is worried because a gynecologist friend told her about abortions rising after Navratri. Also, the report says, parents approach detective agencies - who then send detectives dressed as dandiya dancers - when children start behaving differently. Go figure that out.
Now you may naively ask, but why watch her and report if she is having sex? I mean, just what does that achieve except to keep your score card updated. Why not just talk to her - ask her questions, give her answers, advice, even warning. Elementary, my dear Watson. We are Indians, we do not talk about sex, not even to our partners, forget children. Heck, we do not even have sex. It is God’s Will that we are a nation of a billion plus people - all born as Divine Blessing.
