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Breaking Age-old Patriarchal Tradition And Untochability In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 26, 2012: if a woman loses her husband by death means she has to remain seclusion throughout her remaining life following the patriarchal tradition in Nepal. She cannot wear anything red, and cannot attend any auspicious event.
In a campaign to break this age-old inhuman tradition, the Single Women Group of Ramechhap held an event to change the status of a group of 51 single (widowed) women of Ramechhap, in which they shed the mourning clothes and wore crimson clothes, bangles on their writs and red tika on their bows. All these red wearing brought them back to the lives of happiness, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
The Single Women Group of Ramechhap has declared, ‘the Nepali patriarchal culture has enforced a hegemonic practice of prohibiting widowed women from wearing red clothes, and red accessories for dominating the female members of the society.’
In an interaction held in Bhairahawa, Rupandehi on Sunday, June 24, 2012, various speakers have stated that the change in the old mindset of the people is the prerequisite to end the deep-rooted ill practice of untouchability from the Nepalese society, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes. They said that such ill practices should go from the society if a prosperous and united society is to build; to this end, changing the wrong perception of caste is necessary; even after enactment of the Caste-based Discrimination and Untouchability Act (Offence and Punishment Act) 2011, the practice of Untouchability continues in the Nepalese society.
