A Maharashtrain shows da GUTS!!!

This incident took place in PUNE... the place where all So called Educated People LIVE!!! Dats our SOCIETY. A group of around 25 Shiv Sena activists from Parvati area attacked couples at Peshwe Park for celebrating Valentine’s Day on Saturday afternoon. The Sena members thrashed a boy who questioned them. One of the Shiv Sainiks also tried to assault a girl for raising an argument and protesting their hooliganism in the park.

“I am also a Maharashtrian like you... then why are you troubling me,” the girl asked the Sena members. Hurling abuses on the girl, a Sainik tried to hit her with a stick. “Tu mulgi ahes mhanun tula sodat ahey... (I am leaving you just because you are a girl),” the Shiv Sainik told the girl. Soon several other couples fled the park out of fear of getting beaten up by the charging Sena members.

The incident took place around 2.30 pm and its live coverage was also shown on some of the news channels. Sena members Bala Bhamre of Parvati area, who led the attack at Peshwe Park said, “Our party is against the Valentine’s Day celebrations, which is spoiling our culture. We had first requested the couples to stop celebrating the day and leave the park. But a boy started arguing with us. So we taught him a lesson in our style.”

He said, “The girl had thrown our saffron flag on the ground which angered our members...because she was a girl, we let her free without causing any hurt.”

Who are They?

Who are they, where they go, what they wear, how they sit, stand, talk, walk in our very own cities. When they demand the need to make our cities non threatening , I don’t expect anyone to think of them as their sister or mother, but to really look at women as citizens who have every right to be out on the streets, without any explanation. Sometimes we just love to walk, stand around, hang around, without looking ‘avaliable.’Then why cant they??????

Do Women in Our Country Still Need Protection?

"You’ll only have one glass one wine won’t you?” is the question that my mum usually asks before I leave for a night out. I’ve grown up with the idea that women shouldn’t drink, and if they do then one glass is more than enough. Many of my Indian friends drink and party till the early hours but most of their parents are not always aware of what they are up to.

So when I learnt about recent events in South India, where a right wing group of activists beat up a group of young girls drinking in pub I was shocked, but not surprised. It got me thinking about attitudes towards women in my culture, and why it is that despite being born and bred in Europe, many of my Indian friends still find it hard to be entirely open with their family. Despite the fact that more and more women are going out to work and becoming financially independent, it is still difficult to stray away from the “norm”. Elders of the family say they are just looking out for us, and I often find myself annoyed at the fact that my partner is not overprotective. It’s been the norm for me throughout my childhood, but do I and other women really need protecting?

The men who attacked the young women in the pub were angered by the fact that they were drinking alcohol, mingling with men and wearing clothes that they called “indecent”. The leader of the party, Pramod Muthalik said that his party were the “custodians of Indian culture” aimed at stopping women from “going astrayThe fast growing Facebook group, The Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women, is encouraging women to “walk to the nearest pub and buy a drink” on Valentine’s Day tomorrow. The group has nearly 30,000 members. Is this about protecting women’s rights or protecting women from negative influences of society?

Da Incredible INDIA

In a tragic fallout of moral policing in the city, a teenaged girl allegedly committed suicide after suspected Sangh Parivar activists publicly humiliated the girl for being friendly with a Muslim boy and handed both of them to police.

Sixteen year old Raveena(name changed), a student of class ninth at the Aikala High School in Kinnigoli, along with her friend Sridevi(name changed) had gone to Maroor near Moodabidri in a bus to meet Saleem, a conductor-cum owner of the bus on Tuesday afternoon.

A group of suspected Sangh Parivar activists stopped the bus and took the three to Maroor police station. Police then called Raveena(name changed)'s parents and handed her over to them.

Unable to bear the humiliation, the girl committed suicide by hanging herself at her house on Wednesday night, police said.

However, on the complaint of the girl's father, a case has been registered against Saleem under Section 376 and 305 of the IPC for luring and raping the girl, police said.