The national flag deserves much more loyaly, respect and dignity than this - was my reaction after learning about the abashing faux pas at Port Blair and Bangalore.
60 years and still......
In Port Blair, the Indian tricolor was unfurled upside down (:eeek:) and the irony is that the Lt. Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bhopinder Singh, formerly served the Indian Army as Lt. General. Obviously, the Lt. Governor looked so disappointed yesterday after it was pointed out from someone in the crowd.
When asked for explantion buck passing continues, but as an Indian who savor the freedom and owe it to all those great leaders, I would like to see the officials involved in the faux pas suspended from their service for this national offence. It is such a pain to know this.
And again , in namma Bengaluru, our beloved CM BSY missed flag hoisting, for arriving 20 minutes late to the function. Yeddy also breached the protocol of arriving earlier than the Governor, and so had to miss hoisting of the flag. Honorable Governor Rameshwar Thakur hoisted the Indian tricolor in the absence of CM. When it comes to flag hoisting, we need to give attention to even minute details. But when is it the maha nethas going to learn?
Monday, January 26, 2009
Hooliganism by so-called Hindu moral police in Mangalore
As the news trickled in that once again women were assaulted by Hindu moral police in Mangalore, the Amnesia Lounge, I followed the news closely only to literally go into a state of shock. TV channels aired scenes of Hindu literally peeling away women off the pub in Mangalore; I saw the women manhandled beaten and driven out of the pub by who proudly acclaim themselves as Hindu moral police.
These moral police belong to an outfit named Sir Rama Sena (literally mean Lord Sri Rama's brigade). Tell me where in Hindu culture would you see Lord Rama or his disciplines physically attacking or assaulting women? It's such a shameful act by Sri Rama Sena activists what they've done at the Amnesia Lounge Pub and Bar. And, Sri Rama Sena's national president, Pramod Mutalik owned the responsibilty. However, what made me ponder is that Mutalik justifying and substantiating the act further. He remarked, "we are ones who will not allow attack on Hindu culture. He further said "we've got information that they are all drug addicts....." He seem to be justifying that the Sri Rama Sene men did right by beating and driving the women out of the pub and takes pride that they did not molest them.
This Sri Rama Sena is a pro-Hindu organization which has its base in Hubli and it is Pramod Mutalik who floated this after bidding adieu to BJP and Bajrang Dal. I am all glad that the organization celebrates Hindu festivals in grandeur, being a Hindu myself. But this kind of moral policing will bring disgrace to the organization as well as tarnish the image of Hinduism per se which follows the path of tolerance. No where in the Hindu puranas or itihasas do we see women ill treated this way. And certainly will this be the so called Ramrajya?
What this Pramod Mutalik said shocked me. Manhandling a woman is an offence and media has footage of what happened? If the government has any guts arrest those dastardly cowards first.
If not snatching away one's freedom what is this called? And where are we going? The Taliban way, as the Women and Child Development Minister Mrs. Renuka Choudhary puts it? To drink and/or to dance in a pub by a girl/women is entirely her personal choice. Similarly how to dress is her personal choice.
What do you call interfering in one's freedom in the name of culture policing? I think this virus is seriously spreading from Maharasthra to Karnataka and a peaceful city like Mangalore is on world map for all wrong reasons today. CM? Wake up from your slumber! High time you step in and take stern action against the hooligans lest we will see Karnataka/India becoming another Taliban rajya and no Hindu woman will appreciate this, not even the women at home of Sri Rama Sena moral cops.
With due respects to Mutalik Saab!
Does it mean beating women in public protecting Indian culture and women? Give treatment to the roots that are collapsing the Hindu culture. Who are we to treat the symptoms of the problem, heh!
These moral police belong to an outfit named Sir Rama Sena (literally mean Lord Sri Rama's brigade). Tell me where in Hindu culture would you see Lord Rama or his disciplines physically attacking or assaulting women? It's such a shameful act by Sri Rama Sena activists what they've done at the Amnesia Lounge Pub and Bar. And, Sri Rama Sena's national president, Pramod Mutalik owned the responsibilty. However, what made me ponder is that Mutalik justifying and substantiating the act further. He remarked, "we are ones who will not allow attack on Hindu culture. He further said "we've got information that they are all drug addicts....." He seem to be justifying that the Sri Rama Sene men did right by beating and driving the women out of the pub and takes pride that they did not molest them.
This Sri Rama Sena is a pro-Hindu organization which has its base in Hubli and it is Pramod Mutalik who floated this after bidding adieu to BJP and Bajrang Dal. I am all glad that the organization celebrates Hindu festivals in grandeur, being a Hindu myself. But this kind of moral policing will bring disgrace to the organization as well as tarnish the image of Hinduism per se which follows the path of tolerance. No where in the Hindu puranas or itihasas do we see women ill treated this way. And certainly will this be the so called Ramrajya?
What this Pramod Mutalik said shocked me. Manhandling a woman is an offence and media has footage of what happened? If the government has any guts arrest those dastardly cowards first.
If not snatching away one's freedom what is this called? And where are we going? The Taliban way, as the Women and Child Development Minister Mrs. Renuka Choudhary puts it? To drink and/or to dance in a pub by a girl/women is entirely her personal choice. Similarly how to dress is her personal choice.
What do you call interfering in one's freedom in the name of culture policing? I think this virus is seriously spreading from Maharasthra to Karnataka and a peaceful city like Mangalore is on world map for all wrong reasons today. CM? Wake up from your slumber! High time you step in and take stern action against the hooligans lest we will see Karnataka/India becoming another Taliban rajya and no Hindu woman will appreciate this, not even the women at home of Sri Rama Sena moral cops.
With due respects to Mutalik Saab!
Does it mean beating women in public protecting Indian culture and women? Give treatment to the roots that are collapsing the Hindu culture. Who are we to treat the symptoms of the problem, heh!
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