From my childhood I've heard everyone starting from my Mom, Dad, Granny, neighborhood aunties, politicians, the government... zooming in the need for girls to dress decently for their own safety. I personally have no issues with clothings of women... They are free to wear anything they like or are comfortable in. But something disturbing me of late is that how safe Indian women really are in the era when a beautiful bride dressed in her traditional ethnic wear, perfectly modest and decent, can be zatak-ed by a boy next door that leads to the newly wed bride breaking out from marriage? Atleast this is what a latest perfume ad has portrayed. The usage of controversial women images has itself been a controversy from the start of advertising. But the issue is one that seeks serious introspection since our age old values and virtues are on the verge of being cited as an epitome of hypocrisy.
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