Garba: Mating dance in the age of Instagram

Ahmedabad | Monday | 7th October, 2019

Summary:

If we ponder at the mating behaviour of human ape, it has always been a warzone between individual desires and social norms. It is entirely possible that in conservative societies where extreme parental control existed, girls could have evolved into risk-takers and opportunity-seekers as a counter balance commonly found in nature. This would have been a useful trait to prevent the system from failing because of parental control going overboard. As social media has arrived almost overnight with a bang, the same evolutionary trait could end-up backfiring when it hits the conservative societies of the rural and less-educated masses where girls are unprepared to understand the nuances of social media. With parental control gone, girl-boy conversations between the Mani from Manavadar, Magan from Mehsana, Junaid from Juhapura and Razia from Rajkot have now erupted..