Is it Moral Policing ??

Well, woke up on the wrong side of my bed again! My mobile silently spoke, its 13, the count of the no of missed calls for today, before I woke up to another hectic day. Routine calls except one, from Bharat, my senior at college who was quiet a sensation after he proposed a girl on the final farewell day in front of our college gate, It was so romantic.. But the girl felt embarrassed, we were told, by Bharat anna. The good news was they were blessed with a baby boy now. Thank God!, it was four years back, the moral policing team was not that active then. Had it been the case today, he would not have dared to propose her in front of the hostel gate.

After the forgettable episodes of Kushbu snippets in Tamilnadu, the activists have shown their rouge face once again in Mangalore. This time just before the Valentine ’s Day. They even threatened to play spoil brats if they see couples outside cuddling, smooching or even walking together on V-Day.

If you see who's behind most if not all of these incidents it always ends up at these extremist organisations -- such as DPI, PMK, RSS & VHP which play a major role in Indian political system. PMK is even part of the central government.

A posse of hard-line Hindu activists barged into a pub in Mangalore last month and roughed up young women clients who were enjoying a quiet drink. This assault — by members of a little-known organization called the Sri Ram Sena, or Lord Ram's Army — caused outrage among many Indians. This barbarian act triggered a national debate on the rights of women in a fast-changing society where traditions still run deep. There were serious voices heard everywhere. The Indian media carried indignant headlines condemning the "Talibanization" of India. But the hard-liners justified their pub attack. They deliberately publicized it as an effort to stop the "un-Indian" and "loose" behaviour and to prevent India from falling prey to "Western deviations" (such as allowing women into watering holes clearly meant for men) to protect and safeguard the Indian culture

I am not here to delve in to the, what is right, or, is it right? debate. We need answers to solve these problems. My take on this with the small amount of brain I have.
----> If you analyze the system and scenario closely then we see a lot of factors and actors involved in it. It can be observed that neither pub culture nor moral policing are the root causes of these incidents. These are just the side effects of the disturbed family life of modern India. When the young force does not get the culture and family value at the family level, then these kinds of incidents are bound to happen. When both the parents are busy in money making and parties, how do they expect their children to learn social life and their cultures? The joint family system has gone and so is the family bonding. Parents do not have time for their kids and mostly think of giving pocket money instead of quality time, and the kids have enough pocket money to get into such kind of activities. In most of the cases the differences in the family life and the disturbances in everyday life results in further disturbances in social relations. Now the question of what should be done!
Counter-publicity like counter-terrorism is one way. Whenever moral policing happens a forum should be formed that is able to protest as much to generate equal publicity. This will enable people to see both sides of the coin.

----> Citizens should be imparted the motive and ill effects of so called Moral Policing else we won't be different from Muslim countries where religion is more important than growth of country, freedom and residents.

---->We should make the general public aware of what's really happening here and tell them they shouldn't let this happen. Grass root level education & exposure-to-the-real-forces-behind would be a good start.

---->Having mixed elements in the government results in a distorted outlook towards the society. what stars off as a clash of ideologies or sometimes ego, culminates as moral policing... take the ban of the movie "FIRE" while shooting for "WATER" it was merely a clash of egos between the director and the so called "moral police"... or sometimes the government pitches the idea of ancient Indian culture or the "HINDU" culture to twist arms... this all is done because a majority of the society still has the narrow outlook. so, a confused government leads to anarchy at the grass root level.
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