Are we really any better than Taliban
a) Meerut Police pushes, punches, slaps and kicks young boys and girls sitting together in a public park.
b) VHP and Bajrang Dal do the same to couples every Feb 14, ostensibly, to protect Indian culture.
c) Khushboo is dragged to court for just exhorting people to have safe sex.
d) Sania Mirza has to retract/apologize/be dismissive about her advice to young people to have safe sex.
And then we claim ideological superiority to those medivial age barbarians that call themselves Taliban.
Indian culture was never for collective stupidity dictating individual decisions. Vedic culture was always for freedom, free thinking, logic and flexibility. Come to think of it, people who claim to be the custodians of Indian culture are the ones who actually endanger it.
I am pained, for if these hooligans, whether in Khaki or in saffron or in the form of the Mufti who asks the raped daughter-in-law to treat her husband as her son are the representatives of my culture - I fall in the same category as those who say that women should wear burkas and men should sport beards and those who do not follow this deserve to be killed.
The oft repeated adage is that all that it takes for evil to win is for the good to not do anything. The youth should rise and tell all these custodians of culture to shove their deifnition of Indian culture up theirs. Our time has arrived and we are for freedom, flexibility and the liberty to choose.
You cannot Talibanise India for you do not own it. It is the land of the free and no self righteous moralists can take it hostage.
b) VHP and Bajrang Dal do the same to couples every Feb 14, ostensibly, to protect Indian culture.
c) Khushboo is dragged to court for just exhorting people to have safe sex.
d) Sania Mirza has to retract/apologize/be dismissive about her advice to young people to have safe sex.
And then we claim ideological superiority to those medivial age barbarians that call themselves Taliban.
Indian culture was never for collective stupidity dictating individual decisions. Vedic culture was always for freedom, free thinking, logic and flexibility. Come to think of it, people who claim to be the custodians of Indian culture are the ones who actually endanger it.
I am pained, for if these hooligans, whether in Khaki or in saffron or in the form of the Mufti who asks the raped daughter-in-law to treat her husband as her son are the representatives of my culture - I fall in the same category as those who say that women should wear burkas and men should sport beards and those who do not follow this deserve to be killed.
The oft repeated adage is that all that it takes for evil to win is for the good to not do anything. The youth should rise and tell all these custodians of culture to shove their deifnition of Indian culture up theirs. Our time has arrived and we are for freedom, flexibility and the liberty to choose.
You cannot Talibanise India for you do not own it. It is the land of the free and no self righteous moralists can take it hostage.
posted by Prashant @ 3:00 PM
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