Policing 'Morality'

Well.. Back after a long time. sometimes i feel so proud of myself for finding the name 'occasional blogger' . I feel i've picked up the corporate jargon after so many pdp classses last year!! Occasional sounds more pleasing than to say i'm Lazy, right?? :)

February, acknowledged as the month of Love. But not many of us know that it's regarded as the International Month of 'Friendship'. Or for Love has overtaken friendship ?? Don't know. Also, Feb 14th is the death anniversary of the king of Comic writing , P G Wodehouse , if not for a newspaper article, even i would be unaware of this info.

Air is all filled with love and its messages. But this time , it's altogether a different thing to witness. No one needs an introduction to what i'l be talking about, rather writing about. The very incident, has been in news for so much time that now everyone in a remote village also know about it.

Let me be clear with my stand on the issue[ although no one would be interested in that for i'm not that great yet, but hope to be one day ;) ].
' I just condemn the act of behaving such with women. Whatever it may be, no one has the authority let alone morality to molest women in public. '

Moral policing, something which Indian society was totally new to , has taken different forms in different cities. Some place, so called 'moral police' men beat up men and women in parks, and in other, they enter a pub and take the law into their hands telling they are the custodians of Indian Culture. I just have one question to ask those people. Why did they target 'women in a pub' ?

Firstly why women?? Is it because it's easy to target them, or is it supposed that only women are representatives of our culture? Although i've never been to any such place in my lifetime so far, but as far my knowledge goes, there are much more bigger issues threatening Indian culture and solidarity than a pub. Where were these people when a foreign tourist was raped and killed? I feel ashamed when one of my teachers, who was teaching us a foreign language and was from that country only , hear saying ' India is dangerous'. Is this the message we want to pass onto those who come to visit our country to see our 'rich' culture?

Can't these people roam around at a highway passing a small village being custodians to the girls who need to walk miles to reach their schools or women who go to work for their livelihood? According to statistics, there are states in India which witness a rape almost every day. Doesn't this seem to be a bigger issue than women going to pub according to their will?
To be precise, it's one's wish where they go and what they do, except for those concerned with them to question and comment.

Continuing with these, our law banned women working as dancers in restaurants or the ones who were called 'bar girls' have now been abandoned without a job. It gives a feeling of shame, disgust and pain at last to come to know that most of them take to prostitution , just because the society doesn't allow them to do anything else or just that they don't know anything else. Why not do something for such people and try to protect our culture from being mocked by others?

There are other issues such as terrorism, communal harmony and the list goes on and on.... People from different religions have been living in India from years, and we can proudly say, harmonioulsy if not for certain incidents. The excellent solidarity shown by our people in Mumbai during recent terrorist attacks, the protests held are a justification to it.

Now coming to the issue of Valentine's Day. I'm no supporter of such celebrations for i don't believe in that, but neither do i have any objections to it unless any such celebration doesn't harm anyone and their values and principles. No one from outside not concerned can dictate you what you should do and what you shouldn't when things are in one's personal domain . Just i'm curious (as always) to see how things turn out on the day. i guess everyone else is...:)