Wanna Express Love But How???
Valentine’s Day is on Head and like all other couples I too want to spend some time with my Significant other. May be it’s a western culture but what I believe is there’s no harm in being a little bold and expressing my love for someone. Anything that gives you happiness and do not harm anyone else is nothing, but good. After all we are taught to love, aren’t we?
This Valentine I want to go out and celebrate, but seeing some previous cases, I am afraid.
- They Might Forcefully Get Me Married
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This year, extremist Hindu outfits have promised a “prompt Arya Samaj” marriage for those found celebrating the “foreign festival”. Meanwhile, interfaith partners will have to endure a “shuddhikaran” (purification) ritual. Those found hugging shall be prime targets!
- They Might Throw Eggs And Rotten Tomatoes On Me and My Partner
Last year, VHP and Bajrang Dal activists decided to pelt rotten tomatoes at couples sitting along the Sabarmati River on V-day in Ahmedabad. We guess they would have had to buy a lot of rotten tomatoes…
- They will burn my Gifts And Card
This happens every year, without fail. It’s a yearly ritual. One wonders if these protectors of society’s morality buy the cards first.
- They will Beat/Thrash Us
A couple of years ago, in Muzaffarnagar, couples who were out celebrating their love at a restaurant were pulled out and thrashed by the Shiv Sena. Funnily, enough the Sena had also issued a circular (!) urging people not to celebrate V-Day.
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- I am even Scared To Go Out With My Sibling
Yes, it’s bizarre. But then no one has ever accused the moral police of being too smart. On Valentine’s Day in 2013, Bajrang Dal activists forcibly married off siblings, as they mistook them for a “couple” in Hyderabad.
- Humiliate Me, Film Me And Then Threaten Me
A couple in Bhuvaneshwar were made to do sit-ups and were filmed after found holding hands in a park in 2013 by the Bajrang Dal. This one’s almost well-meaning, if you forget about the threats that followed.
- I Will Have To Lie At Home
As my parents are not going to allow me to step out of the doors due “their” constant threats against this “foreign-festival”
- Because We Have Value And Culture
You would have heard this, a number of times. Perhaps the only thing that conservative purveyors of morality – both Hindu and Muslim – agree on is that Valentine’s Day is a Western conspiracy to tarnish Indian values and culture. As far as conspiracy theories go, this is probably the dumbest.
- Police Is also Not Going To Help Me
This monstrosity happened in 2010 when cops imposed Section 144 – reserved usually for riots and large protests – to prevent V-Day celebrations in Pune. Section 144 prohibits the assembly of five or more persons or holding of public meetings. When will the Indian police stop acting on behalf of idiotic politicians and irrational loons, we wonder?
Now I am Confused. Should I go or not…?
