Valentine's Day is approaching and the Hindutva Brigade is out of its slumber. Nice name they have given to their campaign this time- MORAL POLICING ! Its always nice to be self-appointed custodians of the civilisational heritage,or should I say its a superb cloak to camouflage their hypocritical non-sense ! Its ridiculous to see that this time their target is the state known to be the 'Mecca of the Software Revolution'.Its outrageous,as a responsible citizen and a thinking individual to digest their preposterous rhetoric.I mean is there a dearth of substantive issues in this country to fight for ? I am sure,our country has attained that level of enlightenment,atleast now, in not showing any sympathy to such publicity stunt-men and showing them their real place - an ASYLUM,may be ! If they really want to protect our civilisational values,then they should go and teach those youth a lesson who disrespect women on the road,or those who ill-treat their parents,rather than kidnapping and maiming a Hindu girl for talking to a Muslim boy.Our rich civilisational values never taught us such lessons. Where are we heading ? I know India is a democracy,so everyone legally enjoys a right to speech,but that doesnot give a license to paranoid individuals to get a frontpage picture or to appear or re-appear for a prime time news story ! We call India to be mature democracy,but i think the people should also show some amount of maturity in dismissing such signposts of stupidity.
Well ur blog post was a gud read !! Bt then i ask myself how much more different was ur blog comment from other articles that i have bn reading from past few weeks.Ur comments certainly confirms the wide spread outrage aginst the moral policing bt shouldnt i expect more from a thinking girl like U ! Wat im now concerned with is the explanation behind these incidences. Wat could be the reasons behind them.I think we need to analyse them at various levels like political, social, economic,religious, psychological, globalization etc.POLITICALLY-Observe the timings i.e., LS elections;SOCIALLY-we need to observe the kind of classes involved in it; ECONOMICALLY-i think the economic empowerment of womennitsonsequent social implications;FROM RELIGION POINT OF VIEW-is this whole thing fundamentally religious or fundamentally political in nature;FROM GLOBALIZATION POINT OF VIEW-the dilution of border has diluted national identity which has lead some ppl to search for newer identities leading to their identification with religion etc...
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