Not everyone. Just bar dancers. Singing and dancing are our fundamental rights to freedom guaranteed by the Constitution of India. And yet at various points, governments have regulated women singing and dancing. Even at the cost of women’s passions, professions and those dependent on them. Every dance is a performance and to make arbitrary moral distinctions is unreasonable. Public morality may be the state’s mandate but what we do with our private lives, is our business!

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Bhatia, Gautam, “A Constitutional Muddle: The Supreme Court’s Bar Dancers Judgment”, Available here: ( https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2019/01/22/a-constitutional-muddle-the-supreme-courts-bar-dancers-judgment/ )
On the Usha Uthup case, see ( https://indiankanoon.org/doc/583552/ )
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