27 Apr 2007

Culture in shambles?

Richard Gere kisses Shilpa Shetty. Mob goes on protest. Court registers a case and issues a warrant. Richard Gere is a wanted man in India.

The list goes on. But I think you get my drift. In the land of the Kama Sutra, a peck on the cheek has outraged the “moral brigade” so much so that our courts (that are already over burdened with pending cases) have time to issue warrants? Couples relaxing together on the Bombay beaches are hauled to police stations for indecency? Kissing in public, they say, is a Western phenomenon that is “polluting” our culture. Is it really? Is our culture so really weak and pathetic that a few public displays of affection are going to leave it in shambles?

Well, I guess so. Since this same moral brigade are the first ones to glorify western medicines, western sciences and send their kids to the west for a “good” education and “good” job. In the midst of this all, the AIDS awareness campaign that they were running seems to have been forgotten. On a parting note, I’ve attached the “offending photos”. Do you really really think that it deserves the amount of attention it has got?






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