'Democracy strengthened, says CEC'
right below that headline, there was another one.
'We will not allow Valentine's Day celebrations'
No mistake, we are talking about the largest democracy in the world --India . I had a nice chuckle reading these articles.. The second announcement is a direct result of Ram Sena's activities in Mangalore. A group of political wannabe's beat up/molested women who dared to bare some in an absolutely "safe place" a pub.
To the so called moral police of the nation, I have two questions.. what were these men doing in a pub ? did they go there to attend a rally ? What were they doing in a pub at night ? Did they have a couple of drinks while waiting for their leader to announce a toast ? ( drinking is so not against Indian culture when MEN do it) . Did they make passes at some of the girls who were there ( this is also not against indian culture... where men don't respect women) , who in their right minds refused their advances . Did they get enraged in their intoxicated state by the refusal of the girls.. and took it upon themselves to teach all of them a lesson, (not for stepping out into a club...but for actually refusing the next leader of the country)
Then they have the audacity to say that their activities were to protect the Indian culture..
The six fundamental rights of an Indian as defined by the constitution:
- Right to equality
- Right to freedom
- Right against exploitation
- Right to freedom of religion
- Cultural and educational rights
- Right to constitutional remedies
What rights of ours are they protecting by banning valentine's day? I don't hear anybody opposing Mother's day or Women's day or Father's day... aren't these western concepts as well ?
What rights of ours are being protected by Shiv Sena, when they are ready to stone shops run by immigrants to Maharashtra ?
Why should we give the control of our nation and state and people to parties , to whom all this means nothing but power and money ?
What will it take for us Indians to come up with an honest party which has integrity and honor as its base values and the welfare of the citizens as its main agenda..
If we want to be the largest and the best democracy, we should not fight for differentiating people based on religion, sex,caste,language,origin ...but for the equality of all despite this variation.
---"Today I am waiting for a new dawn"
Adios
Kavita
4 comments:
I don't know why the culprits are even let to go scot free. Once they are caught - life imprisonment should be a minimum. The fact that an act like this happened (and might happen in the future) in this era is a shame - sigh !!
@Rajesh,
Hahaha, Life impriosnment for beating public in pub and VIP treatment for an attempt to blow your parliament up!!!!
How happy we feel by criticizing these hooligans and how shameful and unsecular we will be if we condemn a particular individual from a community for their continued support to the anti-national activities
@Kavita,
your post is very relevant and points to facts. However, imagine for 50 odd years of democracy, there was no such instances and now suddenly, these extremist have come up.
Its a society, for the first 50 years, we have nourished the seeds of extremism and allow a community to be anti-india because we are secular or pseudo-secular?
All forms of extremism whether hindu or muslim should be nipped in the bud. There is no room for anit-india activities for any community. But we don't address the root cause and just deplore the reactions that are bound to be there ...
I agree with you completely..extremism should not be tolerated.. however from time immemorial, our country has a history of invasions and all because we could never stand united..an easily divisible country. Earlier foreigners took advantage.. now our own country men are...
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