The Consortium Of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women is a group on Facebook formed to protest the broad-brushing of the country of India by a bunch of boobs.
This protest is not a game of one-upmanship involving chadhis and saris. The point is that such a large number of people are OPPOSING the forceful imposition of a pseudo-culture upon them, and REJECTING the undue right of SRS to propagate their myopic and frog-in-the-well version of 'culture'. They are effectively QUESTIONING the authority of the SRS to function as a moral-meter.
Secondly, the plan to send saris to women from all over India by SRS PROVES that SRS is DISTANCED from the cultural diversity of the country. Will they send a sari to a Goan? To a Kashmiri? To a woman from the North East? To a woman in Leh??? And then declare her to be of questionable character if she refuses to don an attire she has never tried before!
If a pub owner obtains a license to operate upon a particular premise, and if an adult enters the premise to drink, then it is nobody's business to question their right to carry out business as usual. If you allow a rabid individual to start questioning the right of the women to drink today, he will go on to question their attire, their mannerisms, their speech, their right to make decisions for themselves, and will not cease till he has robbed them of the right to live as a free individual. There is no turning back on the road to madness, as a peek into our Paki neighborhood would confirm. The only institutional authority to check public conduct is the court of law, and any attempt to undermine that authority is a threat to the very idea of freedom as guaranteed by the realms of the law.
6 comments:
Rightly said...
I dont think SRS is even aware of the roots of Indian culture. All they are doing is, seeking cheap publicity to position themselves on the map of Indian Politics.
Thanks to our media, which provides the much needed attention (instead of boycotting) to such bunches of hooligans (SRS, MNS to name a few), they have started thinking of themselves as moral/legal authorities. But, they need to be cut to size.
"Pink Chaddi Campaign" is a step in the right driection, to let these rowdies know how many Indians are ready to fight against them, to preserve their rights and privacy.
Will this be the only blog here??
Rant... yes, definitely, rave? I am not sure, Sabihur.
The writing says you've fully merged into a working life (the spitefulness, the jaded sarcasm, being butt naked, heh!) and is making a story out of it. Good.
By the way, now that you're in Bombay, did you hunt down Mahek (!)
MY BROTHERRRRRRR! U left me in this cruel cruel milieu!!!! Call me.... I am dying to rave with you. And plizzz, do not reveal my fragrant mahek-filled secrets in a public forum.
well said...but why this obessesion with pak?
Hi GM. Welcome to the R&R of a depraved mind. Well, will not be rude to you since you actually spent time reading my stuff, but shouldn't the obsession with Pak be self-explanatory? If they are obsessed enough to be thinking of 'bleeding India through a thousand cuts' and dotting the Indian landscape with frequent blasts, shouldn't we be obsessed with their maniacal tendencies so that we can seek to 'curb' them? Moreover, the very IDEA of Pakistan' existence, which sprang from the 2-nation theory, is unacceptable to me. So the closer Pakistan moves to implosion and eventual annihilation, the more it warms the cockles of my heart. And finally, I have been following every damned Paki move since I learnt to gobble Maggi noodles and my present demonic predilections are best summed up by Friedrich Nietzsche when he warned us: "Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
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