I start this
post in a strange way, with a wiki reference.
Kiss of Love protest is a non-violent protest against moral policing started in Kerala and later spread to other parts of India. The movement began when a Facebook page called 'Kiss of love' asked the youth across Kerala to participate in a protest against moral policing on November 2 at Marine Drive, Cochin
In the
famous Hindi song, picturized on India’s poor farmer, the fellow asks the girl
for a kiss, singing “Jumma Chumma de de” as
she refuses his demands. Now things have a changed. It’s
more like “Chumma le le”. How Mr.
Bach would’ve wished he was born in today’s world where kissing in movies is
the norm and doing the same in public becomes a full blown campaign.
But my job
is not to give my two pence worth on why its right or wrong or perform any moral
policing upon the youths. I’ll just be penning, sorry writing… sorry
typing out my thoughts on how stupid it is; both, to start such a motion and to
have police and religious bigots trying to stop it. India is a country where
nothing lasts for long, especially campaigns and movements targeting the
(however non-existent it might be) LAW.
An article
that I stumbled across online, caught my eye as it was totally against this
campaign, demeaning it uncultured and un-hindutva or whatever else. The following
questions are similar to those posed in the article but I promise, the answers
not. Rather they are intended to cause total damage to everybody’s religious
sentiments and downgrade the culture of my country to new and abject lows.
Q.1) Kissing is all about love, why are you against it? Anything to do
with Indian culture or religion(s)?
A) What the hell? Who said we’re against love? We are liberal people and a secular country. Yes we will keep saying that we wrote the Kama sutra and that we don’t oppose sex and PDA but we’ll continue to do the same. Because, Hypocrisy.
A) What the hell? Who said we’re against love? We are liberal people and a secular country. Yes we will keep saying that we wrote the Kama sutra and that we don’t oppose sex and PDA but we’ll continue to do the same. Because, Hypocrisy.
Q.2) But why the blatant hypocrisy?
A) We saw 12 year old girls get pregnant in the west and thought, “Well we have 12 year old girls getting married and thus pregnant, so it’s fine as they’re married.” It’s the unmarried lot that we’re concerned about, however mature or sensible (or not) they might be.
A) We saw 12 year old girls get pregnant in the west and thought, “Well we have 12 year old girls getting married and thus pregnant, so it’s fine as they’re married.” It’s the unmarried lot that we’re concerned about, however mature or sensible (or not) they might be.
Q.3) Pissing is allowed in India and kissing is not? Your take?
A) Bhai pissing is a natural occurrence. It helps to fertilize the soil and thus makes the trees grow faster. So we let that happen (no not as a law but ae vai). Also, we do what the West has stopped doing and vice versa. The West has almost stopped kissing on streets, so we started it. Ask them to start pissing please.
Plus, we can’t let our kids see this happening live. They have movies and sitcoms for ‘those scenes’.
A) Bhai pissing is a natural occurrence. It helps to fertilize the soil and thus makes the trees grow faster. So we let that happen (no not as a law but ae vai). Also, we do what the West has stopped doing and vice versa. The West has almost stopped kissing on streets, so we started it. Ask them to start pissing please.
Plus, we can’t let our kids see this happening live. They have movies and sitcoms for ‘those scenes’.
Q.4) But I heard it’s still common in the West to kiss in public, so why
not follow suit?
A) Arre baba (getting irritated) I said na, they have almost stopped there. We do what they don’t. Let me explain. They have fantastic infrastructure, great planning and the ability to put in the hard yards. Do we have that? We can kiss, piss and get hard (Kamasutra founders you see).
And if two adults get too cozy in public in the developed countries they’re asked to get a room. ROOM?!?!? Kitna mehenga hai pata hai kya? Bandstand jaisa room nahi hai koi! Ekdum khullam khulla!
A) Arre baba (getting irritated) I said na, they have almost stopped there. We do what they don’t. Let me explain. They have fantastic infrastructure, great planning and the ability to put in the hard yards. Do we have that? We can kiss, piss and get hard (Kamasutra founders you see).
And if two adults get too cozy in public in the developed countries they’re asked to get a room. ROOM?!?!? Kitna mehenga hai pata hai kya? Bandstand jaisa room nahi hai koi! Ekdum khullam khulla!
Q.5) But why pick on these adolescent nobody’s?
A) Yes, I was coming to that. We have to protect our ancient culture and heritage. Dowry, casteism, domestic violence, acid attacks, rapes, eve teasing… all these petty issues can be handled by our extremely capable cops. Also, weren’t the first three examples a part of our culture? So we cannot possibly oppose them. To hell with the women (and men) who suffer due to these glaring issues. I hope I’ve answered your questions. Now if you may let me go I have to catch some youths kissing on the road and slap them with charges of promoting homosexuality as well.
A) Yes, I was coming to that. We have to protect our ancient culture and heritage. Dowry, casteism, domestic violence, acid attacks, rapes, eve teasing… all these petty issues can be handled by our extremely capable cops. Also, weren’t the first three examples a part of our culture? So we cannot possibly oppose them. To hell with the women (and men) who suffer due to these glaring issues. I hope I’ve answered your questions. Now if you may let me go I have to catch some youths kissing on the road and slap them with charges of promoting homosexuality as well.
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