Opinion - Letters to the Editor   

Dance bars

The Bombay High Court's verdict quashing the law banning dance bars in Mumbai is in accordance with the values of a civilised society. The ban was violative of the dancers' right to livelihood. As for the degeneration argument, no one has any right to impose his or her skewed thinking on others in the name of morality. No one has the right to deny the bar girls their livelihood in the name of so-called decency. Morality is not about snatching bread away from hungry mouths.

Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy,
Hyderabad

Targeting a category in the name of decency is unjustified. With no alternative sources of livelihood, the dancers' lives were thrown out of gear. The verdict is a godsend for the bar girls.

Yasmin Banu,
Abu Dhabi

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

People's needs over party politics
Securing our cities
A new kind of history textbook
GoM's confidential report
Narmada project: clearing the confusion
The child, the media and the law
The cost of 3ºC global rise in temperature
Twin blasts
Narmada issue
Poll survey
He deserved better
Dance bars

Copyright © 2006, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu