{"id":3275,"date":"2003-07-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/09\/2003-07-09-training-classes-for-ideal-wives\/"},"modified":"2003-07-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-09T12:00:00","slug":"2003-07-09-training-classes-for-ideal-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/07\/09\/2003-07-09-training-classes-for-ideal-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Classes for &#8220;Ideal&#8221; Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2003\/jul\/01spec.htm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>BHOPAL, INDIA, July 1, 2003: After completing her class 12 examination, Deepti is now training at the Manju Sanskar Kendra to be an &#8220;ideal wife&#8221; to a boy she has only seen once. Six days a week, Deepti attends sermons at the Kendra, an institution set up to train women to surrender to the more powerful in the family &#8212; in this case, the husband and in laws. Aildas Hemnani, the Kendra&#8217;s head, coaches his students in a room that doubles as a prayer hall in a Sindhi-dominated residential area on the outskirts of Bhopal. A retired Madhya Pradesh government employee, Hemnani&#8217;s idea to set up this unique institution evolved during a discussion with Sant Hridayaram, who is highly revered by the Sindhis. &#8220;I was distressed by the constant bickering among families all around me. At times, it led to divorce. I told Sant Hridayaram that families are breaking up because girls nowadays have too much ego. Parents don&#8217;t have time to train their daughters properly. Girls must shed their egos to build a happy family. Sant Hridayaram suggested I start a training course.&#8221; Women&#8217;s groups first heard of the Kendra two years ago when a local newspaper published a feature on it. &#8220;All they teach is subjugation,&#8221; says Kumud Singh, secretary of the Bhopal district committee of the National Federation of Indian Women. Singh feels that boys should also be coached. &#8220;Training and restraining boys is necessary. If men learn to respect women, half the problems families face would be solved.&#8221; Hemnani says he would like to coach would-be husbands as well. &#8220;I wanted to train boys, too, but nobody is interested,&#8221; he said. He has also created a course that would train women to be ideal mothers-in-law, but, like the course for boys that too didn&#8217;t take off.<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceBHOPAL, INDIA, July 1, 2003: After completing her class 12 examination, Deepti is now training at the Manju Sanskar Kendra,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}