Pramod Muthalik of Sri Ram Sena has undoubtedly become an instant hero in the country. All that he did to receive about 30000 pieces of brand new pink lady-underwears was to call a press conference and announce that St. Valentine was India’s biggest cultural enemy & that women can’t go to pubs in Hindu India. Many businessmen are marveling at this simple technique to raise seed capital from the market – you can’t scoff at 30000 underwears worth about Rs 20 lacs. A delegation of All India Pink Underwear Manufacturers Association has reportedly requested Muthalik to continue his campaign well after Feb 14th – they all believe this is working out much better than any financial package announced by the government to tackle recession. Sensing a great business opportunity, manufacturers of lipsticks, noodle strap blouses, bikinis & other “corrupting” feminine cosmetics (all of which are symbols of depravity that threaten the भारतीय नारी ) have requested the protesting women’s groups to change the underwear agenda and appeal to their members to hereafter send some of these other offending articles to Mr. Muthalik. The Ram Sena in the meantime, has declared that they will be donating all underwears to inmates of poor people homes – I wonder how those women will recognize which piece belongs to whom from a large number of similar looking pink underwears hanging on the clothesline.
Recognizing the enormous potential of this idea that does not use any government resources to stimulate the economy, the Indian Manufacturers Association recently held an all-India quiz to generate innovative ideas to provide Mr. Muthalik more issues to continue a relentless campaign against all enemies of Indian culture. I am reproducing herewith the five prize winning entries.
[1] Blowing off candles on birthdays will be banned because extinguishing a burning lamp [जलती हुई ज्योत] of any kind is inauspicious. (All manufacturers of electric bulbs are rubbing their hands in glee as switching off a bulb is culturally acceptable).
[2] The pornographic carvings at Khajuraho can be viewed only by couples who show an authenticated copy of their marriage registration certificate. Those who cannot produce this will be instantly married off, there itself.
[3] Saying “good morning” or “good evening” etc will be considered culturally incorrect. Suitable local alternatives will have to be used with immediate effect.
[4] All married Hindu women must wear a RED kumkum & a mangalsutra with the requisite number of black beads. Husbands of those women who do not do this will be beaten up to instantly prove the bad effects of not wearing these.
[5] Consumption of Coke & Pepsi will be banned. “Cowpee” the new health drink, introduced by RSS and made from cow – urine will be the only cold drink available throughout the country.
Mr. Muthalik is reported to have appealed to all Indian parents to allow at least one male child from the family to join the Ram Sena. He further said that he required many hands to help him implement this important national agenda of preventing our great Indian culture from getting corrupted.
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Though this issue has become a laughing matter, I feel that it is a very serious one.
More than half of this country is young and would therefore like to mock at Ram Sebe and Muthalik. Young women feel that they know what they should do or not do and dont need to be told.Young men feel that personal freedom is most important. Like minded liberal oldies think that freedom of expression leads to creativity and would enhance the growth and development of the country. Everybody says that hitting a women in public is simply not done.
I see this issue as a battle between the India of the small towns and the India of the metropolis. India Culture has changed once again.
1. Valantines day has entranched into Indian culture a decade back and now it is too late to even discuss the pros and cons of sending love notes, hugging and kissing in private or public. Young India in the cities have accepted it and are practicing it for many years now and will not give it up. Youngsters in smaller towns are waking up to this because of the controvery created by Siva Sena, MNS, Ram Sena and they would definitely would like to taste the forbidden fruit. Therefore this whole ruckus that is being raised by Muthalik is counter productive. The current times and age do not favour him.
2. At the same time, he has a point in all his mumbo - jumbo. Freedom is very good as long as people are within limits. The moment a youngster (girl or boy) crosses the limit of self preservation and invites stares and fantasy in the eyes of viewing public, the devil in the human spirit rises its head. Most people have a devil inside their minds which just needs an careless open door or even an unintended invitation to do that which normally is not done or is prohibited. Therefore similar to the acts of the good samatitan who wants to oppose Muthalik's maddness, there are the acts of the not so good samaritans who would like to take advantage of the youngster (girl or boy) who loves so much freedom that he or she cannot take care of themselves.
3. Does it mean that girls cannot drink in the pubs or hotels? No!
Does it mean that boys and girls should not kiss in public? No!
All it means is that yongsters should be sensitive to the environment, sensitive to what they themselves would approve their children to do. Otherwise we will soon have parents at the age of 10-12 (Alfei and Chantelle -Britain) and two more young boys who claim that they are also the father of young Maisei. Imagine, none of these younsters know the hardship involved in working to earn. Does this make young Chantelle a unintended prostitute? Does it make her parents unintended pimps? Believe me, too much freedom is not good.
Good piece. Keep it up!
Dear Prakash
It is a pity that we have such fanatics in our system
Pavan Malik
I wonder why the Ram Sena chose not to follow these girls home to make sure nobody harms them, and let their parents know what was happening. That would have guarded our culture, informed the authorities and yet kept personal freedom intact.
The sad part is that each and every organization that swears by the aim of cleansing or maintaining our culture do so from a completely political ambition. Guiding our culture is not enough; women must be beaten. Saying Valentine's day is unacceptable is not enough; couples must be bullied into getting married, preventing people from drinking alcohol and doing drugs is not enough; they must be beaten in public in full eye of the media to prove their point. Is there a single organization that works below the radar of the media?
The human reaction to these events is painfully obvious: rebellion. If someone browbeats you into not doing something, you deliberately do it just in defiance, even if you do agree on principle. How has that safeguarded our culture and values?
hehe good one.....
#suman bose
see, what bothers me is not wether someone needs to police some so called social ills.... what i ask is, how come only women should be debarred from drinking in pubs or the like? thats not fair howeverwhichway you look at it...
Sir , the Blog about Pramod Muthalik was quite good. keep going Sir.
Dear Shesh Sir,
I read your opn. about Mr. Muthalik.I think the way he is protesting against pub culture,v-day celbns etc. is wrong but the concern which he is showing must be shown by all parents in India.Because of this type of culture in the society (the benifit of which is going to MNCs,pub owners etc.) teengars are being attracted towards materialistic pleasures like sex etc. untimely and at raw stage of their life without understanding what they are doing.So,stopping them from doing so by some democratic way is the need of the hour.
Recently i read about one 13 year old boy becoming father in England.Just imagine this happening in India!It may happen in India very soon because in the name of liberty what we are doing is nothing but conspicuous consumption of things that we don't need,not suitable for us,not for us-Indians finally!
Mr. Muthalik may be wrong in the style of what he is doing but in intentions(if not the political milage)he MAY be right if he intends so!
In india we are still slaves of our own traditions the result of this moral policing by some faction of society.
The government should pass a law to prohibit such activities.
In name of growth we are going back only.
Freedom of Speech and democracy is good only in books.
Independence for Britishers is achieved but real independence is yet to be achieved
Vishal Arivalagan
It is good that you have succeded in making humour out of a very serious issues...
But the issue still remains a major one as it a seed sown to raise a new taliban tree in India.
shame on you Ram sena... atleast dont spoil the name of the Great Shri Ram.
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