Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Girls cant Pub saala..........

About 15 to 20 Sri Ram Sena activists had assaulted boys and girls in the pub in Mangalore on 24th Jan,2009. The assault, particularly on girls, had evoked outrage. Though 17 activists of Sri Ram Sena have been taken into custody in the Mangalore pub attack case, Ram Sena remains unapologetic about the attack and its founder P Muthalik termed the incident as a small thing. Suddenly INDIA seems divided-some r anti-pub culture while some r with it. But what is “pub culture” …..It is women drinking n socializing with men. Bars n pubs ve been there for decades but as women ve started visiting pubs, mostly in male company, conservative India has been feeling uncomfortable. So called the real man of india (Ram sena) had attacked innocent gals on the reason that they r ruining our culture….but the point is Who defines Indian Culture?? Who r these ppls to decide what others should do ?? There is no reason to impose his (Muthalik) culture on others. He wants that women would go back in ancient times n wear ghoonghat not skirts or even jeans, no education, no socializing, each n every thing will be different for men n women like old time…n most importantly women shud be considered inferior to men….is that the culture he was talking abt.. …I guess. The world over ,youngsters ve found their own way of expressing their freedom. Nobody can own a culture no one person not a hundred or a hundred million. The culture of a nation is more spirited than all of us. The best we can do is observe the beauty of its transformation. Two decades ago, a bunch of white skinned goons calling themselves “dotbusters” (bindi being taken as a dot) attacked mainly Indians in jersey city in the US. Indians living in the area decided not to take it lying down n they organized small quick reaction teams. This strong counter made the cowardly dotbusters vanish immediately. We ve to keep in mind that if the govt is not with us nor the police then the citizens will ve the right to organize themselves to counter the threat coz the right of self-defence.

After a few days muthalik offers a bizarre reasoning for the opposition to the Valentine’s Day celebration i.e. He claims to ve proof that few girls were raped in Mumbai,Delhi,Kolkata last yr. on valentine day... He has a new slogan for valentine day “tie or die”. But I think it is the failure of govt n police in that state. As no of girls being raped in an yr is quite high as compared to these on valentine day …..then what he is going to do abt that?? Ban the movement of womens in high male concentration area……..Valentine Day is a way of expressing love n freedom…”when did our culture say that one shud not celebrate love?? Coz luvin someone is not a crime. Generally we understand tradition in terms of texts and others books n our attitude towards gender and age has not changed. God bless our nation. Jai Hind.