Dear Minister Dhavalikar,
A quick and easy solution to eve teasing, sexual harassment and rape is indeed the crying need of the nation.
And you offered such a simple one. One that needs no law, no fast courts, no security, no CCTV cameras, no cops... just a saree with “ek chutki sindoor”. I refer to your statement that your wife “has lived her entire life wearing kumkum and sarees. She was never a victim of eve-teasing”.
Is it really as simple as that? Does wearing a saree with a dash of kumkum really ward off all manner of leer and lust? The way a mosquito net wards off blood-sucking pests?
I went hunting for evidence that would substantiate your saree-as-rape-llant theory.
Since you and your missus feel that the blame lies with ‘Western culture’, I made Hindu Dharma and mythology my first stop. The Mahabharat.