Date: January 24, 2009
Place: Amnesia - The Lounge, Mangalore
Incident: Around 40 people - self-proclaimed moral-police - barge into the pub and beat up young women.
So, the so-called moral-police have resurfaced to mock at the freedom that this nation is entitled to. These people later went on to support their act saying it was done 'in the interests of the society'. I think these hooligans must have got the Indian citizenship only recently because I being an Indian cannot connect with their idea of 'society's interests'. Just imagine you go out with your friends for a few hours of fun and a bunch of ignorants (yes..they simply know nothing about our culture or past) appear from nowhere, to dictate that what you are doing is against the Indian culture. As if beating up girls is a part of our culture or it is 'in the interest of our society'.
I think these people are driven by the problem of 'limited knowledge'. They are not aware of our rights, our culture or our past. They are perfect examples of ignorant fanatics.
Now, with Valentines' Day round the corner, the (im)moral-police will probably strike again, with their Talibanised ideology, in some part of the country or another. We all need to stand up against such forms of 'internal terrorism' because we surely wouldn't want to get used to it.
A few states are even planning to ban the pubs..blaming it all on the pub culture..how is this fair??? The least we would expect is that the victims get justice..i being a girl strongly feel the government should not shy away from their primary duty. Justice and freedom are our rights.
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