Abuse And Practices Of Indian Classical Dances In The Natya Shastra

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Indian classical dance sounds easy well it’s not. The Natya Shastra is the foundation treatise for the classical dances in India and it’s attributed to the ancient scholar Bharata Muni. This cult needs extreme discipline of mind, body, soul, expressions, gestures, practice. It’s a form of expression of spiritual ideas, virtues and the essence of scriptures. If we get to the basics like we learn our first letters of alphabets this cult needs to be incorporated at a very early age, and the right age is four. The body is capable of twisting into the postures, mudras, movement of pelvis, neck and chest so that you can attain the finery.

This wasn’t the case with “Ronita”. She was nineteen when she decided to learn “Odissi”. Call it her sudden desire, watching
All was happening hunky dory when they got caught during a raunchy session by the wife of the tutor and that was the beginning of destruction. The tutor started ignoring her, she was asked to leave the dance class, her dreams of performing with the finery of motif was shattered, her dreams of building a home with her tutor was broken and she grew up an insecure adult in need of validation yet by a man.

We talk of pedophilia but sexual abuse as an adult can also have severe effect on females. The rage of hormones, the premenstrual desire, an urge to have sex gets difficult to control. There has been a rise of 33% cases reported of victims of adolescence sex abuse. Ronita may be an adult but with a mind of a child. It would be wrong to call her a full grown adult since she had a difficulty in understanding the right versus wrong and it’s common.

The stark reality of the statistics is that approximately 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused affect can be regardless of age, gender, family income, culture, race, religion, physical appearance, sexuality, intellect, disability

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