Three Folds Across Her Middle
Iftekhar Sayeed
http://unlikelystories.org/sayeed0308.shtml
(article at link above)
The failure of the nation state in South Asia is
reflected in the region's cinema, which clearly shoes
a lack of shared imagination, with films being
classified as A grade and C grade, corresponding to
their elite and mass audiences respectively.
Unsurprisingly, the female form shows the same
schizophrenia at work, with the mass audience
demanding the traditional, heavy female form, and the
westernized elite plumping for her svelte, westernized
counterpart.
Excerpt: "But how do we explain the figure on the
catwalk? For explain her we must, since the ideal of
feminine beauty in the Indian subcontinent still
clings to that outlined centuries ago in The
RatiRahasya (Secrets of Love):
She in whom the following signs and symptoms appear is
called a Padmini. Her face is pleasing as the full
moon; her body, well clothed with flesh, is soft as
the Shiras or mustard flower, her skin is fine, tender
and fair as the yellow lotus, never dark colored. Her
eyes are bright and beautiful as the orbs of the fawn,
well cut, and with reddish corners. Her bosom is hard,
full and high; she has a good neck; her nose is
straight and lovely, and three folds or wrinkles cross
her middle - about the umbilical region."
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