: Once Women’s Corpses Were Disrobed in Goa; This Teacher Changed This So Much More #IndiaNEWS #Lede Come February, and India’s perennial holiday destination, Goa, turns into one big festival,
Once Women’s Corpses Were Disrobed in Goa; This Teacher Changed This So Much More #IndiaNEWS #Lede
Come February, and India’s perennial holiday destination, Goa, turns into one big festival, for it is ‘carnival time’. Giant, colourful floats take over the streets, with masqueraded parades and folk dances, cheer and festivities echoing throughout the state from Margao to Panjim. But the dark underbelly of carnival is witnessed by only a vulnerable few.
“They used to advertise women as sex objects with Goa being the land of ‘wine, women and song’. They would make women dress up in bikinis or short dresses on the floats. In the parade, cases of molestation of women were numerous,? Sabina Martins, 57, tells The Better India.
Sabina came together with diverse women from different fields to start Bailancho Saad in 1986. ‘Bailancho’ means women, and ‘Saad’ refers to an awakening call in Konkani.
At the time, besides the local Mahila Mandals, there were no organisations that would take up issues of sexual assault in the state.
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