我們都來穿莎麗吧

如何讓正從人們視線中漸漸消失的莎麗回到日常生活中，讓傳統(tǒng)傳承下去，這是一個沒有標準答案的難題。印度的兩位婦女利用神通廣大的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)，掀起了一場小小的穿莎麗運動。這場運動正初見成效。她們的故事提醒我們：不要一味抱怨社會，發(fā)泄不滿，你也可以做點什么。

Let’s Wear Our saris

Host： 1）Hashtags serve different purposes. India knows that. Politics and fun？ #selfiewithmodi. Serious issues around gender， like sexual assault，#India’sdaughter. And then there are style victims like #100sareepact， sari spelled s-a-r-e-e. That would be those beautiful flowing silk traditional dresses worn by Indian women， but now losing ground to jeans and ready-to-wear. Ally Matthan and Anju Maudal Kadam are with me from Anju’s home in 2）Bangaluru in India. Tell me what you’ve actually proposed with this #100sareepact.

Anju： You know， it started as a conversation between Ally and I. And we wanted to bring out the saris from our closet， saris that we were wearing actually only for occasions， and we wanted to bring them back into our everyday dressing. Social media 3）amplified that message for us. We put it up but more to hold ourselves as 4）accountable for what we were doing， and we decided to do the hundred sarees. People joined in.

Host： How many people have joined in， Ally？

Ally： We don’t have a clear fix on that number， but I think people joined in because it struck a chord with all of them. There’s an emotion that’s coming through all of this. There’s a voice that is emerging， and that is really what the pact is all about.

Host： What is the emotion？ Are Indian women missing their saris？

Anju： I’ll tell you. That the pact is more than wearing the sari. The pact is about telling the story behind the sari， or a story about yourself in the sari， or how you’re feeling in that sari. The voices emerging are voices of fabulous women from the past who have been pathbreakers. There are voices emerging of people saying， you know， “I stepped out in my sari today， and all this is what I did and I feel like super-woman.”

Host： Wow！

Anju： There’s another voice that says I went sarishopping， and that， you know， body types， body image， colour. People are talking about all kinds of things. It’s really， really bringing together people in a community almost， talking about what they like， what they dislike， and the sari’s now become a medium of story-telling.

Host： It sounds like a sari is very closely a…associated with a woman’s， an individual woman’s identity， so tell me your sari story， Anju or Ally， and what it says about you.

Ally： For me， the ones that I really， really cherish the most are the ones that I inherited from my grandmother， who used to wear them every day to work. And she ran a factory， so I cherish them from the emotional perspective， but I also cherish them for what she stood for. You know， when you wear a sari and go to work， it immediately installs you with respect. People listen to you when you wear a sari.

Anju： I’m going to add to what Ally says. There are perhaps urban women that have given up some amount of sari-wearing， and that is what is coming back on that hashtag， and we have women saying， “Gosh， I hadn’t worn a sari for a year， but now they’re all sitting there and I’m gonna wear them， thank you.”

Host： So， Anju and Ally， how many saris do you each own respectively？

Anju： Gosh， not hundred. Not hundred. We’re gonna repeat， there’s no 5）vainness， there’s no 6）vanity in it. We’re gonna repeat like we repeat our jeans.

Host： And now that other women are putting their saris on and posting pictures， I’m wondering if it’s led to a little envy. You know， you see a really gorgeous sari that you just gotta have now？

Anju： Every story is a work of art. Every sari…

Ally： Every sari is a work of art. That is true.

Anju： Yeah. It really， really is.

Host： Ally Matthan and Anju Maudal Kadam， two friends in India who pledged to wear saris twice a week for a year. One hundred saree pact. Thank you very much.

主持人：網(wǎng)絡標簽可以有不同的功效，印度人對這一點再清楚不過了。政治與娛樂相結(jié)合？看看#selfiewithmodi（與莫迪的自拍照）吧；關(guān)于性別的嚴肅話題，如性侵擾，那就看#India’sdaughter（印度女兒）吧。還有一些時尚潮流受害者的標簽，如#100sareepact（百件莎麗約定），標簽中的莎麗（sari）一詞拼寫為s、a、r、e、e。這指的正是印度婦女漂亮且飄逸的傳統(tǒng)絲質(zhì)服裝，但如今莎麗的地位正漸漸讓位于牛仔褲和成衣。加入我們節(jié)目的是阿麗·馬特罕和安珠·馬達爾·卡達姆，她們正在印度班加羅爾市安珠的家里。跟我說說你們用“百件莎麗約定”這個標簽的目的是什么。

安珠：你知道嗎，這源于我與阿麗之間的一次交談。我們想讓呆在衣櫥里的莎麗重見天日，因為我們只有在一些重要場合才會穿莎麗，我們想讓它們回到我們的日常生活中。社交媒體幫我們把這個信息放大了。我們設立這樣一個標簽，更主要的目的是想要盡一份責任，所以我們決定設立“百件莎麗約定”的標簽，人們隨后也陸續(xù)加入進來。

主持人：阿麗，有多少人加入你們的行列？

阿麗：我們沒有一個準確的數(shù)字，但我想，這是因為它在人們心中產(chǎn)生了共鳴，所以他們才會加入。……