Wake up!

I was expecting that many articles will swim around with this topic but unfortunately none of my known bloggers addressed this. May be we are waiting for other to come up with it.I know this was not the first time when Valentine was opposed but I thought that after that pub incident we will be getting some strong reactions against Indian talibanis. Wake up! please, for how long will we be seeing all this drama in the name of culture and traditional values? ? It was sad to see that mostly the news coverage on valentine in India was about bajrang dal,shivsena ,ramsena and god knows many other groups threatening people against celebrating valentines. They consider it as western onslaught on Indian culture but what about their own behaviour? Brother sister mistaken as lovers and beaten up, couples tortured and asked embarrassing questions and that too in front of camera. It was more shameful that, in many places this happened in spite of the police protection. Where are we heading?
I have read the encounters of women in some countries mostly in novels ( Diary of the Arab Princess, The Kite Runner, Thousand splendid Sun etc) and all the time I used to thank god that I was born in India which is much more ahead in civilization. While reading those books I had pinched myself too, reading those encounters that these horror shows can not happen in my country. However after the pub incident hearing the encounters of the women in Radio mirchi I cannot say the same. Instead of growing up with the women status, see where we are landing? Believe me, if this is happening in India this is more shameful cos here women have powers but we are not using it. There has been series of embarrassing things in year 2009 that we need to have some solution to. All these news were flashed in TV and flaunted in newspapers over the front page sadly nothing was done against it. No doubt these things will be repeated now onwards for publicity, so be prepared to give up your independence to some handful people anytime. With the starting of the year a leading actor supported by his wife commented about women right about using the family name. I know many of the women were hurt with his statement asking women to use husbands' surname after marriage and wanted them to give up the fathers' surname. Should we? Ask your conscious how you will fell if you will lose your identity after 20-25 years of your life? Are you aware that many of us sign using our surnames so will be changing that too?
Mangalore incident break all the barriers that separated us from the talibanis. Much has been written about it and even some level protests were also done. The question is, were they enough to stop any further such encounters? Does all this pave the way to more such incidents by some fickle minded people who just want to get publicity? Inspired by the popularity of unknown Ramsena many such small groups took valentines as an opportunity. They are so wild that it doesn't matter if it is negative publicity. I remember that the news paper on 15 Feb has beautiful photographs from different parts of the world along with the photos of agitation in India. We all saw the news, we all read the papers , we felt sorry and forgot about it. Are we waiting to happen this to us? Are we waiting for these handful of people to become majority?
I believe that strict measures should be taken against these people before such mushrooming groups become a menace. Immediate ban on these parties is required. Just to discourage these people whichever party announces such things, the registered members should be kept in jail to avoid such shameful confrontations. As far as Sanjay Dutt is considered I hope that he loses the election. We supported him when he was trapped in drugs, we supported him when he was caught in TADA but this is high
time that he should realize that he needs to be more sensible and matured. He can carry on the fight with his sister but should not preach about what women should do.We need to stand before India is transformed into taliban by a handful of people because the majority chooses not to speak.