A nation of misplaced priorities...

A honourable (?) minister gave a call to all women to fill the pubs on valentines day, to show their opposition to ram sena. 'Pub baro' campaign it was called. But is this the real freedom of women? Am echoing a friend of mine, when I say "Do they consider themselves liberated, sitting on a couch and drinking the night away?". Well, in India priorities are always misplaced.

1. We have a band of hooligans, Ram sena, Hanuman sena, Vanar sena, and likewise, who hate westernization and the resulting deterioration in Indian culture, when they could have displayed the same vigour against corruption, bribery.
2. Our health minister targets the smokers of the nation, goes all out to fight them, when the more pressing need of the hour is Primary health care.
3. Glitzy IT firms and real estate companies, having the muscle bargain for sops and get them, when the leser known cousins like textiles dont. (Someone even asked for a bailout for Satyam)
4. Few of us support terrorist organozations (In Tamil nadu, atleast), take up their cause passionately, fight for them, create unnecessary ruckus (Am happy they were treated the way they were treated police), but comfortably ignore farm suicides.
5. The chief minister of Rajasthan is more concerned about young guys and girls, walking hand in hand than the numerous developmental issues in his state.

What else do we expect from a patisan media, with each of the channels and news papers being the mouthpiece of a political party? We certainly are a nation of misplaced priorities...

Munnabhai Part 3?

Daily I think, I should be more regular with my posts, and of course as you'd have guessed by now from the timing between my posts, that I miss it by quite a mile.

Off late there has been this stir caused by some rogue group called Ram sene, who take some pride in beating helpless women. I don't want to give them too much space here. But there is another movement that has taken roots against the sene, and interestingly its called The Pink Chaddi campaign. Its meant to revolt in a peaceful way by sending tons of love and of course pink chaddis to the sene on valentines' day. It remains to be seen though, how far they succeed. And, I thought gandhigiri was dead... (Do I smell a Munnabhai part III here?) Certainly, my best wishes with them. And though unable to make a contribution this time, hopefully next time I can play my part.