‘Bikinis are the best’ my rather outspoken big mouthed friend expressed his inner desire on our debate started on some unknown issue. ‘Look even at the beauty pageant they make all those cuties to wear bikinis’ he was not retreating from his point though all of us agreeing to him yet due to embarrassment could not openly support him. ‘You can not put on bikini all the time or travel in train like that’, I tried to collect courage to stop him. ‘That would be still better…’ he whispered which we all heard without raising our ears. We concluded there only.
I drove home after that conversation; it was festive evening looking at the crowd on the street & their clothes. I felt if not exactly bikinis the female kingdom is definitely getting closer to that only. Being member of male kingdom I felt pity on them I mean us, we that is male kingdom, must need to observe more constraints in public life apart from rash driving, drinking, smoking, talking aloud & so on.
Poverty used to be judged by the clothes worn by the subject in good old days. Poor people were deprived of sufficient clothing to cover themselves. Kings & queens used to wear more than their bodies require & the left over would sweep the roads. Now, to keep oneself as naked as possible has been fashion statement, don’t trust me, switch on TV & get yourself satisfied. Have you seen cock picking up grains on the ground along with his family of five to ten hens & their chicks? How wonderful they look; even the cats, dogs, cows, and buffalos without any clothes on them they look just nice. Lovebirds, macaws are just splendid even the tigers, snakes simply great. We have rather lately discovered the strength in keeping ourselves as naked as possible.
You get to get exposed and what else one wants? We are rather constantly struggling to get exposed. I mean to the sun for that free vitamin D from its rays. Exposing enlightens one about his or her health. Good muscular body with cuts can make anybody get attention. To get attention if one is resorting to yoga, exercise, diet control then what is bad in it anyway? For health reason I’d support exposure.
There is fashion in exposing. One needs to be rich & great looking else who will look at her or him? I marvel why people went after Mahatma? He was poor, not good looking, spectacled, old & half naked. Either people then were not aware of strength of exposure or their meaning for exposing was just different.
Exposing has become an industry or I’d say it needs a separate ministry called exposure ministry. See, it is very simple; people go to see tennis as they love tennis is normal. If people, not knowing why those two on either side of the net hit the poor ball so ruthlessly, to go to see tennis & even get glued to their TV is exposure what can one conclude? One must be able to observe the stitch on tennis players’ innerwear & logo in blue of sponsor there. It is fun, rolled into beauty, into business, into skill of cameraman, into view & idea of sponsor, into crowd catching mechanism, into tennis players’ skill in flowing the skirt while shooting service or smashing volley. Why tennis we even get glued to TV to watch sports as swimming, sprinting, boxing…. The world sports society has decided, it is learnt, in sports if one needs exposure one must expose since it is sacred not obscene. Whomsoever thinks it is obscene he or she is scared.
Films, film gatherings for their various awards’ ceremony right from the Shivaji Park to Kodak Theater, public swimming pools, beaches etc. etc. are under the exposure ministry. They have excluded today’s hospitals as nurses around there are wearing skin tight dresses for their patients’ wellbeing it is considered sacred & does not fall under entertainment.
Well, all said & done if you dare you do what else? We on the banks stay mute & observe constraint watching you swim as we scare to get drowned.
By
Vijay Yelmelwar
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