The southern tip of the subcontinent seems to be catching up with the moral policing trend in the rest of the country. Thanks to a bunch of morality mongers, who deprived themselves of even the basic necessities like food and sleep and burned the midnight oil to check the morality pilferage in God’s own country, the hundred percent literate state of Kerala woke up this morning reading the bravado of these morality soldiers who displayed commendable chivalry by slapping a female who dared to get out at night with a male friend. Wow … I am proud to be a Mallu! Those lowlifes whose world view is smaller than the size of a peanut; who have sworn their lives to defend these mules that carry the horrendously gargantuan morality baggage of the society would now come up, taking time from their busy schedule of making useless statements and dreaming to make the society more regressive, and make well thought out statements like– 'She deserved it didn’t she? How dare she get on the bike with a male unrelated (read who is not her father, husband or brother) to her? Girls should remain indoors after 8'. Cute... Isn’t it?
Now if you think that the morality bug has gender bias and feeds only on testosterone; perish your thoughts and read along. Apparently a group of women activists identified a mermaid grass sculpture in Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) as a grave threat capable of inflicting serious dent to the moral image of science and tech education. Consequently in November 2010 the general public, staff and students of CUSAT witnessed the breast chopping ceremony performed on the grass mermaid following strictures from this group of estrogen overflowing protectors of womanhood who could not stand the vulgarity in the curves of the grass sculpture. Can you beat that? Since the logic how the lost morality of university education could be restored by the breastlessness of the sculpture eluded me, I reached out to a friend who comforted me by saying that it was an esoteric exercise performed to satiate the moral high priests and that the amoral ones like I and her will need many more births to understand the intricacies of such rituals.
For the love of God these have happened in a state that boasts of HDI comparable to the best in the west, and substantial international exposure to the general public because of outmigration and large diasporas. What is even more alarming is that both these have taken place in Cochin, supposedly hippest of the cities in Kerala. If unchecked the morbid mindset of a few ignoble souls are sure to make Cochin lose out on its race to be the most wanna be IT hub in South India.
To the wholesale and retail morality mongers this is what I have got to say. Go get a life for yourself and stop sniffing around the lower end of the intestinal tract of others to find out what they had had for breakfast.
Now if you think that the morality bug has gender bias and feeds only on testosterone; perish your thoughts and read along. Apparently a group of women activists identified a mermaid grass sculpture in Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) as a grave threat capable of inflicting serious dent to the moral image of science and tech education. Consequently in November 2010 the general public, staff and students of CUSAT witnessed the breast chopping ceremony performed on the grass mermaid following strictures from this group of estrogen overflowing protectors of womanhood who could not stand the vulgarity in the curves of the grass sculpture. Can you beat that? Since the logic how the lost morality of university education could be restored by the breastlessness of the sculpture eluded me, I reached out to a friend who comforted me by saying that it was an esoteric exercise performed to satiate the moral high priests and that the amoral ones like I and her will need many more births to understand the intricacies of such rituals.
For the love of God these have happened in a state that boasts of HDI comparable to the best in the west, and substantial international exposure to the general public because of outmigration and large diasporas. What is even more alarming is that both these have taken place in Cochin, supposedly hippest of the cities in Kerala. If unchecked the morbid mindset of a few ignoble souls are sure to make Cochin lose out on its race to be the most wanna be IT hub in South India.
To the wholesale and retail morality mongers this is what I have got to say. Go get a life for yourself and stop sniffing around the lower end of the intestinal tract of others to find out what they had had for breakfast.
2 comments:
well written binu... and prompt too..
Thank you..
really hoping to see some strong action against these morons
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