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V-Day has become V-Scary Day!

By ⋅ February 14, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Fol­low­ing my post yes­ter­day, there have been more inter­est­ing (and pre­dictable) devel­op­ments in the Indian pub­lic space.

Peo­ple in the city of Jaipur are advised to indulge in pri­vate dis­plays of affec­tion instead (this is very much Indian cul­ture, btw) and make loads of babies. It’s good for the coun­try, peo­ple. Jai Ho!

Actu­ally, this hap­pens every year, but it never ceases to be amus­ing. I really think these folks need some TLC and are seri­ously pissed off because they’re not get­ting any. But till then, they resort to mak­ing unpleas­ant threats and “blacken faces” of those found mak­ing pub­lic dis­plays of affec­tion (mak­ing threats, btw is very much Indian culture!).

So keep your hands to your­self is the bottomline.

Now we all know that this V-day stuff is crass com­mer­cial­iza­tion, rea­son for rose farm­ers to make more money, and for Hall­mark to increase bot­tom­line and blah blah. But for heav­ens sake! Have they heard of non-participatory tac­tics instead? And don’t they have any­thing to do — like find bet­ter ways to run the coun­try? Or loved ones to hang around with? Eh?

Here’s some­thing for V-Day (advis­able to read in pri­vate only)

Discussion

5 Responses to “V-Day has become V-Scary Day!”

  1. “So keep your hands to your­self is the bottomline.”

    heh heh. I thought the play on the word was excellent ;-).

    Posted by Mytri | February 14, 2007, 6:15 pm

  2. I liked the com­ments fol­low­ing the BBC link.
    The first fel­low has obvi­ously been lis­ten­ing to too many Dolly Par­ton records. “Love is like a but­ter­fly??!!” I find it amaz­ing that any­body could quote that with a straight face in an aver­age conversation!

    Posted by R.A. Levin | February 15, 2007, 8:46 am

  3. Good thoughts.….but wats ur take on PDA ? U havent revealed it — leav­ing it to read­ers? To know my take on LOVE drop in to my blog.

    Posted by Vinod | February 15, 2007, 9:20 am

  4. I agree for the most part except the point that the com­mer­cial­i­sa­tion allows rose farm­ers to make money — No, he still gets his aver­age 15ps per rose while at a fancy florist you pay Rs 5 for the same!

    Posted by Usha | February 15, 2007, 11:39 am

  5. Arre yaar, the iso­lated inci­dents are not worth both­er­ing about. The point is — India is under­go­ing a social rev­o­lu­tion — in con­junc­tion with the eco­nomic rev­o­lu­tion since 1990. If one thinks about it, India has dra­mat­i­cally changed since 1990. One can’t even com­pare today’s India with the India of 1990 or before.

    But it is always the case that a sig­nif­i­cant social rev­o­lu­tion meets some resis­tance from author­i­tar­ian people.

    I don;t think these inci­dents will last long. So enjoy maadi.

    Posted by Sunil | April 15, 2007, 7:11 pm

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