Valentine's Day is a day of love, peace and friendship. I celebrated today with my husband by eating at a Japanese restaurant and a having a lovely chocolate mousse dessert.
I asked Nirmal - "honey, how did we celebrate Valentine's Day when we were in college?"
Nirmal replied that "We never did because of Shiv Sena.We never went out because the Shiv Sena goons would beat couples in Varanasi."
Being so far away from these things, I realized that once i was also a victim of Shiv Sena and that they were successful in stopping millions of youg boys and girls from meeting each other on this wonderful day. And their tyranny has been growing.
It's a shameful for our nation that even after 63 years of independence, dating is frowned upon & girls-boys are not allowed to meet in public unless they are brothers-sisters. Isn't it a very natural thing to do when you are 16?
When other half of the world is on the verge of legalizing same sex marriage, I would like my country to embrace boy-girl relationship (outside of a wedlock) as a natural and healthy phenomenon.
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ReplyDeleteIndia is a complicated country Neha...we are growing and yet we are trying to hold onto the thin tradtions ...we want freedom but we still want to hold onto some anchorage...we are changing and these points are faced by every country which undergoes these changes....changes are correct only if they are are contextual - that ways they get imbibed very easily...if they are radical, they will create lot of iconoclasts and hence disrupt the nation called India
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