Men danced with other men in India just a few years ago!

(posted on a different date)
In this programme I am watching right now kumaoni men and women are doing a seemingly traditional dance together (although, there are no couples, and men and women hold hands only when forming a circle and never as couples or lovers). But although this dance is presented as traditional, this is only partially traditional, for although men and women have been dancing like this in cultural programmes for a while now, its not what the culture of Kumaon is like. I know because when i went to live in Kumaon, like in the rest of india, men and women had no concept of dancing together. So much so that when we were doing ball dance, I danced with the other guys, almost in embrace, while the girls danced amongst each other.