Politicizing Culture

The recent incidents of the Mangalore pub and the assaults on the Valentine Day are an alarming signal to the nation.

Youngsters are requiring a means to showcase their love in the open that is not acceptable to some group of people. The tolerance limit for these few people is crossing the limit, such that they enroll in numbers to take action against the lovers. Such acts should definitely be taken under the purview of the law and action should be taken. The Indian Penal Code also has sections which deal with such criminal behavior

How do you define culture: It is the set of values, goals, attitudes, traditions, practices that a group of people share. What we see now that is that it is these set of values that do seem to co-exist in a group belonging to the same community.

In the last month incident at the Mangalore pub, a group of 40 Sri Ram Sena members assaulted the women who had entered the pub in the name of their obscene behavior. The argument they gave was to prevent the Indian women to ‘go astray’. It is surprising that it is happening in the very same country that gave the world Kama Sutra. The question that we face is, is what the Sena did a part of Indian culture. Can someone break the law, assault women publicly in the name of ruining Indian culture and still go handsfree? It is a big irony that the very people are ruining the culture in the name of others.