THE CHEERLEADERS TOO EARLY TOO FAST FOR VICTORIAN INDIA

The fun is over.
Cheerleaders in the newly started domestic cricket turnier have taking Indian cricket by storm, but some were from the start wondering if this conservative VICTORIAN STYLE South Asian nation is ready for dancers with bulging breasts and gyrating bellies parading in packed stadium. Although the start was intelligent, not Indian girls (which have to be protected from eve- teasing and any other masculine impact) but foreign cheerleaders were imported to India for the inauguration of the India Premier League (IPL), a shortened form of traditional cricket that transforms the game into a more glitzy U.S.-style sponsored sport event.

The sight of many foreign women and few Indians dancing in high boots and skimpy shorts sparked anger and it was said it crudely copied Western culture.
Indians now say it is affront to Indian culture while a few of the cheerleaders themselves complain lewd comment and insults from spectators is making their job a misery.” It’s been horrendous," Tabitha, a cheerleader from Uzbekistan, told the Hindustan Times. ""Wherever we go we do expect people to pass lewd, snide remarks but I'm shocked by the nature and magnitude of the comments people pass here
"What the cheerleaders are doing during cricket matches is ten times more vulgar than what used to happen in dance bars of Mumbai," Nitin Gadkari, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra state, home to the Mumbai Indians. The BJP is India's main opposition party, which was part of a coalition, which banned popular bars in Mumbai where girls would dance on stage to Bollywood tunes.
"If we could ban dance bars, how can we allow such vulgar dance in a cricket field. I am getting huge complaints and cheerleaders must be banned immediately from entering a cricket field," Gadkari said.

In the IT hub of Bangalore, a housewife, said U.S. cheerleaders were an affront to India.
"What is the purpose of this display? It is embarrassing,"
On last Friday, Navi Mumbai police softened their stand of not allowing cheerleaders at the games, saying the entertainers had valid performance licences. Any vulgarity, however, would invite strict action, Navi Mumbai police chief Ramrao Wagh said.
“The dances should be decent and the clothes sober. The licence law is clear about vulgarity in performances,” Wagh said. He could not define vulgarity, though: “It’s difficult to define; it’s a grey area... Even courts have not defined it clearly. The officer on the spot will decide.”
Wagh refused to say if any cheerleader had been ‘vulgar’ so far. He had not seen any match, he said. But, he insisted, “their performances in the city will be very different from what you have seen so far”.

Wagh found a supporter in distant Bengal. Sports minister Subhas Chakraborty expressed strong reservations against the “wild dancing”, adding, “It goes against the grain of our tradition and culture.” He promised to take up the matter with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. West Bengal Water Resources Minister Nandagopal Bhattacharya, who demanded a ban on the cheerleaders, endorsed his views.
The future dress code her in a draft design


And now it was decided that there will be no more cheerleaders and wild and “nude” dancing in cricket anymore. Poor country. Although we have to be honest 50 years ago it would have been a reason for discussion in the WEST too.