V-day letter!

You might want to read this first so that the following is a bit more clear.

Dear Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal,

I truly appreciate your efforts. V-day should be officially banned worldwide. Not only is it the biggest rip-off but also the anti-thesis of Indian culture and values, a blatant disrespect for everything that was instilled in us since childhood.

When the young population of the country decides to express their feelings and affection on this day it is indeed the duty of the moral police of the country who have our best at heart to interfere and stop us from committing this blasphemy. Afterall if our parents are ok with it, it is the duty of “morally conscious” people like the Shiv Sena to create havoc and show us just how immoral it is to give cards and spend a romantic evening together. Ofcourse if you can’t convince people to boycott the day you have to burn down card shops and arrest people to prove the point. If I decide to spend the day with someone, stroll in the park, hold hands and tell him what he means to me (ofcourse there are dozens of other things you can do) then the random-guy-I-don’t-give-a-crap-about-and-who-doesn’t-know-me has every right to force me to be with this someone for-better-for-worse-for-richer-for-poorer-in-sickness-and-in-health-till-death-do-us-part!!!!! Or indeed I could tie a rakhi to this someone who was my Valentine I was till a few minutes back and who could have been my husband by now if I was caught in some other random city by some other random stranger who has my best intentions at heart strangely!!!!!

Just what kind of a secular free society are we living in??? I hate it when I have to say this but Indians embarrass me sometimes. Yes, but more than anything else it’s the Hindu fanatics who embarrass me the most. We like to blame it all on the Muslims so often that we choose to ignore the saffron coats who are also responsible for the divide in our society more than anyone else. Is the spirit of Hinduism destroyed by a mere V-day?? Is that how far our “sanskriti” has been instilled in us? If yes then maybe we should stop trying to preserve it for it was never there in the first place. Or maybe we should trust our values and culture to last more than that and stop interfering in the lives of people.

Maybe your lives would be more worthwhile than that of the cows shitting on the roads everywhere and blocking the traffic (in a few Indian cities) if you just decided to mind your own business and help the country a little bit. Atleast we wouldn’t be forced to clean up after you!! (It’s just not this V-day but you have given me many reasons over the years to be pissed. And this is for all those occasions also. )

Yes, so please try and behave yourselves in the future or we would be forced to banish you all to Neptune to save the planet from your menace.

Yours, truly
An Indian.

PS: I was in Singapore on the said day and did none of the dozens of things.