Mangalore incident is very shameful. What is even more shameful and worrying is the fact that only a few high end TV channels, are opposing using intricate language which the upper class or the so called educated people who fell visiting Pub is ok wants to listen. Other than this no one worth the name has come out openly against this atrocity.
A few goons enter a place which other wise they are banned from and ill treat, beat up women who in any other place would be more than a match for them and the entire government is pussy footing over this issue. As if on cue, politicians have quickly caught the event and have used it to come on national TV and deliver high moral sound bites, which they themselves do not believe in. All this with a hope that it will bring in the marginal 1 % additional vote which is enough to tilt the scale in their favour.
The entire Mangalore Pub incident was well choreogrpahed and the TV crew was readily available to record the Reality show and beam it on National Channels. What are the names of the people who were beaten up? Which college they belong to or belonged to? What are the current students of that college, their colleagues in the office campuses doing about it?
Are they all so scared that they do not want to come out in the open objecting to it? Or they feel that the treatment met out to their fellow students or colleagues is what they deserved?
Another aspect which is abhorring and I fell absolutely horrendous about, is that this is being done in the name of Hindu Religion. Hinduism gives equal status to women. The scriptures always encourage tolerance and pardons; never brutal public punishment.
Politics and religion are getting dangerously close and upstarts are enacting scripted plays surprising unprepared small segment of persons and getting public mileage to sway public opinion. If we do not get a clear minded leader quick enough, to steer clear of this kind of abysmally low level of politics, we may go the Taliban way soon and our freedom may vanish.
I have stayed and worked in Mangalore and I have always enjoyed the hospitality of Udpi and Mangolereans. I am shocked that such an incident has been perpetrated on them. My sympathies and I prey that one of the localite be it a Hindu or otherwise take this up on himself as a challenge and mobilise public opinion fearlessly to sub due and clearly condemn the so called morale brigades openly so that they don't dare repeat such atrocities in future.
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Right when stating that politics and religion are doing a 'thin red line'. But,going the Taliban way is a bit of an exagerrated projection.
Nonethless, ever since the British set foot on our soil, religion based issues have always been there, and yes they will continue to plague the nation in the future too.
Sometimes its the roadside food, or the colours and traditions which make India, INDIA. Perhaps, such issues will also make India, INDIA.... Negative or Positive???!!!
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