I have witnessed many valentine's day and many many protests for the same. The Shivsena activists breaking shops, destroying greeting cards all in the name of protecting Indian culture.Never have I taken them seriously nor have met peopple who took them seriously.
They were very easily branded as "jobless youths" who were lured in to performing such violent acts because of poverty or some misguided sense of loyalty.
Never have I felt such a personal rage like i do this year though. It is because moral policing has gone up a whole new level in India. What used to be a country with peaceful demonstrations to show their dissent has now become a goonda infiltrated one.
The Mangalore incident needless to say shook me. How can people who claim to be "Guardians of Indian culture" beat up women and molest them? Is that what the culture tells us? Do these people realize that news in one corner of India is accessible to people in North Dakota in United States. This is what people think of our culture. Uneducated, uncouth people from a third world nation. If that does not embarrass I don't know what will.
What is beyond all this is the fact that the man behind all this actually goes on record and says " When we are on a mission, these things happen". I am sorry if I fail to understand this statement. Does it mean when you are on a mission to get people out of a pub, some women will be molested. Interesting point. I guess a couple of people should try to oust a Ram Sena meeting and in the process beat up people and molest some women there and say" Hey don't blame us, this is what happens when we are on a mission".
One of the reasons why i supported the pink chaddi campaign was because its sole purpose or so it seemed to me was to insult the Ram Sena. i do not see what is so blasphemous about it. These people act all sacred and poius when they do despicable acts like beating up women. So sending them panties seemed a good retort. A punch in the face.Thats the only reason I joined it. To end with moral policing. To insult them.
If pink chaddis came up , can pink condoms be far behind. There was this other campaign that came up whose sole purpose was to demean the pink chaddi campaign. Now for the record I want it noted that I have no problems with the pink condom campaign simply because I think its a democratic way of saying " I don't approve of the pink chaddi campaign". In fact I appreciate them for taking a non violent stand.
But what I have a problem with is the whole religionising the issue. When I read the blog of the pink condom, what irked me was how the founders have made the "Pink Chaddi Campaign" a non Hindu one. Are we so religion obsessed that we cannot look beyond it. Does everything have to have a safforn, green color attached to it. Cant we look beyond them? Cant we ever look at white? Just because a person has a Chiristian name in the campaign, does it mean it has to be anti-hindu? It is religion that is keeping us apart, that is letting goons like Ram Sena to perform atrocities in the name of religion.
Does anyone realize the irony in all this! They call themselves Ram Sena!
Hey Ram!
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they have to base their actions on religion.... cos thats the only way these hypocrites can survive..... hence the pointing out of a non-hindu starting the campaign.... Shameless creatures!
You know what.
We should have allowed these guys to disrupt the Valentines day celebrations.
It would have been even more fun. Look...all now we have done is get them more publicity. More appropriate would be to let them continue their act and somehow find this bloody Muthalik's and his chamchaa's sisters or daughters or wives (if possible his mother or grandma as well) and propose to them falling all over them. Lets see how they get us married on-the-spot!!!!!!
Every rule looks revolutionary...until the person who invokes them get invoked.
If pub culture is wrong, then let them start from the Saadhus and Gurus who smoke pots and ganja in Kashi in full public. Arent they Ram Bhakts? If alcohol is bad then so is Bhaang which is consumed in Holi. All that happens now is just a mordern day version of old times.
P.S: One doubt. I hope it was not a ploy to earn lot of free pink chanddis and sell them in black market. You never know these politicians :P
hmmm so, these ram sena people regularly damage property during valentine's day? im interested to know if any FIR has been filed against them for vandalizing property.
Molesting of pub going women is despicable and should have incurred a severe punishment..
btw i've had a chance to look at blogs of the pink chaddi and pink condom campaigns.. does ram sena movement have a blog where they articulate their actions and justify them? at the very least, it would be a more democratic and acceptable way of voicing opinion than what they are doing now.. And who knows, it may turn out to be an interesting read as well..
The whole idea of democracy is largely demeaned by restricting it to; rather defining it by voting rights. Voting is just one li'l part of democracy.
In democracy the onus of well being of the society falls on you and me. On the general public. Not on the politicians. Not on the saffron/ green flag wielding mobs. Not on the police. Not on the government officials. They are mere enablers in the system. The onus is on us.
These enablers often are roadblocks - and we try to bribe through them whenever you or I face one. Never do we wait or fight it out - because the case in hand is utmost important. I don't blame us too. But it just becomes too irrational to expect "lesser" people to stick to morals and ethics when we find work-arounds.
Anyway - we talk about it; and sadly, that's about it.
PS: I found the saffron, white and green analogy quite interesting; might use it in my blog sometime, with due credit of course. Hope you don't mind that. :)
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