Thank you all the readers for your comments and your views on this post.
Though this post was the result of keeying in thoughts in hurry without consolidation and compliling and hence could not convey the message well. Though few readers have been able to read in the same light that I wrote in.
Still, I have compiled the same thoughts and put it up again as I myself was not satisfied with the results.
The same article can be read, under the heading “Hypocrisy ….HIding behind the culture.”
I value the comment of each reader, and hence their views are intact on this post.
nice blog…..
I am personally not against the pub culture, We have visited some decent family pubs in Mumbai when we were in India.
No one can just be stuck with Mythology my dear, What has happened in the past the same is happening now too, Indra and Rama both had their powers but both used it differently. Here too every politician, Media, Individuals have their own powers it depends how do they use it. These pubs were not build in one night. Where were these people at that time. What culture has to be nurtured in India is not just the topic of those bunch of people who have been into this hideous act at Mangalore and definitely not the manner inwhich it was been brought up.
swati ji….very nice…aap ne bahut burning topic uthaya hai jo aaj hamare desh aur hamre skaj ke jism me ek nasoor ki tarha pal raha hai…magar sawal yeh hai ke dosh kise den….gunahgar kaun?…politics me jo log jate hain woh hamare beech se hi jate hain…qanoon jo banate hain woh hamre leader hi banate hain lekin kya hum khud us qanoon par amal karte hain?jab tak har shakhs aapni zimmedari ko nahi samjhe ga koi bhi law koi bhi qanoon bekar hai…..jab tak hamari soch nahi badlegi tab tak kisi achche aur adarsh samaj ki kalpna…matra kalpna hi ho sakti hai….all the best
Drunken husbands are a curse for poor families and women rights groups were the first ones who wanted liquor to be banned. A rich person can get wine even after a ban, so will many others, but still there is a greater good in the ban. And I don”t know why Khajuraho came in here. Culture depends on time. If they can”t tell the stories in the past to ban some things, then you can also not tell some things from the past to promote some nude dancings in 2009
And you picked up Ahilya uddhar again in the wrong sense. It was uddhar because Ram made her get out of being a stone: this was a liberation. Of course Lord Ram knew that she was not wrong - and this is why he liberated her. Wish you nice time… (Rahul)
No, they won”t get merely a temporary screen space because people like you still get enraged at them
There are lots of kinds of organisations in a free country; and any extreme action by them should be taken care as a law and order case. If we think too much about their illogical logics, we fell prey to their designs. Media has shifted the whole attention - instead of pressurising govt to act against this organisation, it has shifted attention if pubs are fine or not. So communists in WB have expressed that they want all pubs in Kolkata to shut down - reason being the same - that it is not part of our culture. You are right about bans being uneffective many a time. But still, they play a role. There are certain things that need to be banned. If you know the ground realities about liquor being banned in certain places, you won”t have said this here. Or may be you became too angry and forgot.
very true posting dear