The SMS

Today while I was sitting in my room a new sms disturbed my concentration.. it was a sms from a friend in college which read as under:

"7th feb: rose day
8th feb: propose day
9th feb: chocolate day
10th feb: teddy bear day
11th feb: promise day
12th feb: kiss day
13th feb: hug day
14th feb: valentine day


wishing you a romantic week:) "


This message later made me think of a post..!!

The ongoing 'save our culture' drama being held in south India , which is now a regular feature in north India.
This time it all started with attacks on pub going girls in Mangalore and Sri Ram Sene chief ,Pramod Muthalik, putting it on record that he was against girls going to pubs.. in an apparent political move BJP distanced itself from this incident and Karnataka CM and few other senior centre leaders(read congress) came in open criticizing the pub culture.

Then came another shocker : A school-going daughter of a Kerala MLA and her male co-passenger(who incidentally happened to be a Muslim) were thrown out of the bus , their crime:talking to each other..

Pramod Muthalik tried to come off clean from all this saying that they weren't involved in all this..!!

Is this what we call culture?? : beating up girls, threating boys with dire consequences and creating a rift between people from different backgrounds..
Why does all this pop-up again and again like a bad virus.. each time on each and every valentine day??
Sometimes in Maharashtra right now in Kerela and Karnataka ..what next Delhi (wait it has already happened here..has it ??)!!

Which culture are they talking about exactly..i guess these people have never really studied their history properly ..!! we are a land which is synonymous with the letter K(no i am not talking about movies from karan johar or serials from ekta kapoor) but i am referring to the temples in khujraho and the famous piece of literature "K*******A". India has always been a rich heritage , a country of diverse backgrounds , a tolerant nation where each and every culture has been preserved in cotton wool:even if it difficult we have always stood by it and smiled.

What has suddenly gone wrong: i have a few plausible answers
1) New way of marketing themselves as political parties(these are those parties who are new and don't have any agenda:MNS and now this SRS)::::::AKA VOTE BANK POLITICS
2) Maybe the 'western way' of celebrating, what india has already been doing for centuries.
3)It is actually wrong..!!
4)The essence of the occasion has been lost and made into a marketing week by leading stores.. which hasn't gone down well with other people..!!

In the end i just have a few questions for you....
Who decides who are the gaurdians of our culture?
What is THE limit ??
When does the government step - in ??
Who will guard the guards??


LET THE TRUTH PREVAIL AND LET THERE BE LIGHT TO HELP ENLIGHTEN THOSE WHO REFUSE TO BE ENLIGHTENED..!!