While bloggers, media, all sane human beings and Renuka Choudhary have been blasting the Sri Rama Sena (translated as “A band of monkeys” with some inputs from history), only Rediff has shown the courage to delve deeper into the issue. What they have come up with is an article called : Did India export The Kiss to the West?
Behaviour analysts are also divided on where the habit originated. Some believe that kissing, in fact, is a Vedic habit. Vaughn Bryant, an anthropologist from Texas quoted in the International Herald Tribune, believes that the first recorded kiss, around 1500 BC, is in scriptures which mention people sniffing with their mouths; later Vedic texts describe lovers “setting mouth to mouth”.
Far from being a European import, he says, kissing went west from India, after Alexander’s conquest of Punjab in 326 BC. If such is the case then the Romans and Latins, whose kisses range from the overtly sexual to the deeply spiritual, are truly the kissing cousins of the Aryans.
So there you go SRS. It is not the West that is corrupting us, it is the other way round. So you need to be moral policing the West !
On a more serious note, a campaign that has been doing the rounds lately : The Pink Chaddi Campaign, a Consortium of Pub Going, Loose and Forward Women. If you have a spare Pink Chaddi to send to the SRS, please also join their Facebook thing. I am eager to join not just to support their cause, but to see if there are any guys who have a Pink Chaddi. Also, from their campaign snap, I think the campaigners might be confusing between the RSS and SRS as they are different. One goes around beating helpless women in pubs, the other is denied entry to pubs owing to their costume.
Link via Salil B.
Do these so called proponents of democracy, free will etc etc have courage for an ideological debate… I mean thats what people in democracy generally do instead of stooping to such a low…
By: Nachiket on February 10, 2009
at 9:54 am
By the way I am referring to pink chaddiwalas…not Sri Ram Sena…
By: Nachiket on February 10, 2009
at 9:55 am
A debate makes sense when there is some common ground. For example, I wouldn’t really care about debating with someone like Zaid Hamid.
Here you are talking about someone who thinks that they have the moral right to decide for others.
This is equivalent to me going out on the streets and beating up overweight people, because obviously being overweight is not good for the country, society, etc. How does that sound ?
By: Deepak Iyer on February 10, 2009
at 11:25 am
… the other is denied entry to pubs because of their costume….”
That cracked me up.
By: Jeba Singh Emmanuel on February 12, 2009
at 4:03 pm