An Indian Institute of Technology held a fun activity, where boys ran with holding lipsticks in their mouths and their women partners on the other end had to apply that while the lipstick remained in the boy's mouth.
Once again the Indian moral police was alert. The game was termed as a shameless act. It was classified as an obscene behaviour. There were protests and agitations. Eventually, the government was compelled to order an inquiry into the incident. Weird!!! Isn't the government has better things to do???
It was beyond my comprehension as to what made such an innocent act an activity of crime and forced the government to intervene. There are so many other things happening, which, according to me and probably to many others like me, are of grave offence.
There are so many people in India, who, without any qualms open their trousers and stand shamelessly on the side of the roads to pee. Isn't it a crime? Shouldn't these people be punished? There are so many people (mostly from the organisations, which are staging the protests), who start scratching their crotches, when they see a woman passing by. Isn't it gross? Shouldn't these people be shown a civil way to behave?
The question is why is it only the youngsters, who fortunately do not have a polluted mind, become the target of these so called moral police force? Not so long ago some women who were having an evening out at a pub in Bangalore, were beaten badly by volunteers of same organisations, who found it not right if women go to pub for a drink.
My inference is that such organisations and such men are going through utter frustration in their lives. They, at no cost, would tolerate the youngsters living their lives and having fun. The reason is that they have opted for a life, which is camouflaged with pseudo morals and now they feel frustrated when they see a person living his/her life with no labels of ``so called'' morality. Therefore, they simply play the spoilsports.
But, it is high time for evolved Indians to raise their voices against this moral policing. Also, the time has come when we should start confronting the governments as to why they are wasting their time, energy and man force for conducting inquiries on such frivolous things rather persuading the police to identify the real law breakers, arrest the real criminals and bring peace in the society!!!
