Mumbai: And it was the time for Palash Sen, the lead singer of Euphoria band, to face some flakes when his words were taken as sexist remarks during a concert at IIT-B.
While performing on stage at the Mood Indigo Festival, the singer made a chatty rendezvous with the youngsters there and asked “Are there good-looking girls in IIT-B?" and then to the much outrageous question, he himself made a statement by saying, “Don't worry guys, you will find the best looking women when you leave this campus. Aur woh tumhaare liye roti belenge (The women will make rotis for you)."
Though according to Sen, his statements are being twisted and presented, an IIT-B woman researcher has fumingly criticized the singer's statements through her blog.
In her blog, Arpita Biswas has mentioned, “Women are the most beautiful creation by God (sic)," “Beauty is the limit of women's possibility while men are entitled to do everything else! What gets lost on him and the sexist junta is that not only (is) beauty subjective in the first place, it is not the end of the world."
While posing great rage against Sen, Biswas also wrote about how the singer was going sexist by making the girls there feel inferior. Palash Sen, on the other hand has dismissed all the allegations and said that he is a rock singer and is not suppose to be politically correct on-stage.
He said he genuinely feels that women are the most beautiful creation by God and he didn't direct this statement to the physical appearance of women but marked it as a reaction when men in the crowd said that there were no beautiful girls from IIT-B present in the concert.
Another blogger at solepiece.wordpress.com wrote that the singer continued uttering the dated, stereotypes about marriage and said “when the wives will make ‘roti', the husbands in lieu of it, will massage their feet (tumhare paanv dabayege).
Though the famous 'maeri' singer has apologized for his 'unintentional' hurtful words, he has kept stringent that he has not done anything worth guilt and shame.
Many well-wishers are supporting him and have urged not to hype the issue and take it all in fun.
