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Images of a burqa-clad mother playing cricket with her son have gone viral.
Some images have recently gone viral on social media, showing a burqa-clad mother playing cricket with her young son. Feroz Ahmed, a photographer for the English newspaper The Daily Star, took the photo in a field in the Paltan area of the capital. But the discussion started with that woman’s dress impressing that moment of mother-son play. Many have criticized the woman for wearing a burqa.
Critics say they did not find a ‘Bangladeshi mother’ in this mother. Many have said that it is an image of Pakistan or Afghanistan. However, the movie is from Bangladesh. On social media, a person named Mehran Sanjana said: ‘Many people applaud me as a Bengali mother. But looking at it, I didn’t feel Bengali at all. I think Afghan mother. If she had gone to the countryside with her son to change society, she would not have come down after wearing the burqa. ‘
Of course, many have also raised questions against those views. They applauded the woman. One such Facebook user is Farhana Selim Cynthia. She wrote: ‘I don’t care what the lady is wearing. It’s like everyone’s. More than criticizing her burqa, I like to see the boy supporting her, I like her batting style, it seems that a professional has taken the bat.
With a similar statement, Abdun Noor Tushar said in a post on his Facebook account: ‘You don’t see the love of the mother and the child, the joy of a child. See clothes. There is no difference between you and those who try to justify their wrongdoing by making fun of girls ‘jeans and T-shirts.’
Why the clothing controversy?
Sociologist Samina Lutfa said that whether a woman is late or not is always at the center of the discussion. She said: ‘Women have a socially constructed appearance and that appearance is the same for Hindus, a form for the secular, a form for Muslim thinkers.’ These problems have created a kind of division in society. That is why the discussion has taken place. A woman can play with her child whatever happens and after the burqa. ‘
Another reason is that there is no room for tolerance in women’s appearance. In addition, she thinks that the place of the feeling that she will decide what she will wear has not been created in society. In her words, ‘I try to build women the way I want to see them. For example, Bengali women, Muslim women, feminist women, each of them has to live within a certain framework.
She said that many times those who work for women’s freedom also think that women should follow their thoughts. But that is not correct. Because deciding what a woman will wear is also part of her freedom. Thoughts must change over time.
Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at Dhaka University. “The message in this picture should be that a mother is playing with herself to cheer up her child,” Kaberi Gain said. That is the great message. Not your clothes. Because our mothers don’t play cricket. This can also be called an irregular event. I think the clothing controversy is, in fact, an unreasonable controversy. ‘
In this sense, the professor of the Department of Anthropology, Associate Professor. Zobaida Nasreen said that it was about the image of the woman we created. In her words, ‘this controversy has arisen because the worldview of the burqa does not fit the image we have created. The prevailing idea in society is that burqa means conservatism, burqa means fundamentalism. These images are embedded in people’s minds. We see a woman in a burqa, she will be conservative, she will stay home, she will not go out, she will not play cricket. We have a psycho-mundane image of the burqa. That is why this discussion has been made.
What is the dress of the Bengalis?
Since time immemorial, what kind of clothes did the Bengali ethnic group wear? Mesbah Kamal said that earlier Bengali women wore sari and men wore lungi which was worn with malkoncha. She said that due to the predominance of agriculture in this region of the Indian subcontinent, these types of garments are available. Women wear various accessories with saris. Due to which there are many differences between old saris and recent saris.
Women wear various accessories with saris. Due to which there are many differences between the old sarees and the recent sarees. He says that Neolithic culture, such as the plow and vermilion clad natives, can still be seen. Terracotta plaques found in excavations of the Buddhist monastery built during the Pala period at Paharpur mention the lungi as human clothing. However, it is Malkoncha Mara Lungi. Bengali has been made of them. So we see the sari and lungi as the clothing of men and women as the clothing of the Bengalis.
Clothes have changed over and over again: weather, environment, comfort, social status, globalization, everything but shame. Dr. Mesbah Kamal further said: ‘The length of the sari has changed, it has increased. Bengali women did not wear blouses. It begins in the era of Rabindranath. The saree and its accessories have a sophisticated look.
The anthropology professor gave the same opinion. Zobaida Nasreen too. She said Bengali women wore sari and men wore lungi and Punjabi. Most of the people in this region were engaged in agriculture. And the lungi was the dress to match him. However, the idea of blouses and petticoats with saris is much more recent, she said. Previously, Bengali women did not wear tops and petticoats with saris. He said that the idea for a blouse and petticoat was brought up by the Thakurbari girls. And it comes from Victorian notation. A version of western clothing makes a culture suit its own. The result is blouses and petticoats.
How did the burqa come to Bengali culture?
Bangladesh burqa, niqab, veil, many ideas prevail. Girls often cover their faces with a niqab. Said the anthropology professor. Zobaida Nasreen said that the idea of the niqab came to this country from upper-caste Muslims. It was previously said that the daughters of the Syed family would wear niqab. It will cover your head and face. This is because of what you are doing, where you are going, so that others will not see you. People of the nobility wore the niqab to protect their privacy. A similar burqa was also a symbol of noble women.
And the idea of the veil is actually not only associated with Muslims. It has come in many forms and this anthropology professor thinks there is no way to look at it only from a religious point of view. He said that women in the Gujarat region of India unveil when they grow up. On the screen. Again in Christianity the nuns cover their heads. Being part of the culture, it is seen that women used to draw the veil in front of an older person, it is not only associated with religion.
Dr. Jobaida Nasreen added that even 30-36 years ago, people in different districts wore different types of burqas. South Bengal women used an additional umbrella after wearing the burqa. When they saw the men, they held it out to them to hide it. However, in contemporary times, people wear burqas for various reasons.
With a quote from a study he did decades ago. Zobaida Nasreen said that she has seen in her research that many people wear the burqa to meet the needs of the ideal woman in society. Many wear the burqa again for safety. It was seen more frequently during acid attacks. And today, many women live behind the burqa to hide economic inconsistencies. Zobaida gave Nasreen’s opinion.
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