The Edge Of Reason

The recent incidents of the attacks on Chandra Mohan, a final year Master of Visual Arts student at The Maharaja Sayajirao University who was arrested by Sayajiganj police from the university campus on Wednesday,has stirred fresh controversy of "Moral Policing'.

I feel 'moral policing' is an euphemism and a more polite way of imposing the conservative and narrow ideas to impede the regular flow of fresh ideas and what they call aping the west and following their 'culture insensitive' ideas.

Chandra Mohan,who is originally from Andhra Pradesh, has been accused of hurting the religious sentiments of Christians and Hindus in the district and has been booked under Section 153 (A) for promoting religious enmity and hurting religious sentiments with nefarious intentions like creating riots.

There are a few things that I feel I might never understand..
What exactly is this Moral Policing all about?
Do we need Moral Policing?
Is there any way we can justify the fuss that VHP/ShivSena...
activities?

The younger generation is mature enough to know and understand the difference between what is right and what is not.Mimicking the west is a totally different concept.I really do not understand if a couple chooses to go around in park,is it such a big crime that they get beaten up for that,what gives the police this right and what gives these activists the right to beat up anyone.

Issue is not just about celebrating Valentines Day/or any other day neither is it about sitti8ng in the park with your friend.It is about imposing your ideas and ideologies over others.

How an individual chooses to live is purely his/her wish.Policing for all the right reasons has never been criticised ,consider the incident of the recent raid on the Pune rave party.

The past incidents of the moral policing by these activists include,
Damaging public property on Valentines Day,what harm did the shopkeepers do,they were just doing their business and destroying their property is illiegal,Police chooses not to book cases against these people of the fear that,they might be the next target physically,politically etc.

Attacking Private Parties...

any the list goes on...

Again coming to the Chandra Mohan issue...

What I could not understand is the difference between real /genuine ART and gimmickery

I was just watching a news item on NDTV which said (as all of us all will agree) that we can never justify the actions against Chandra Mohan by a group of VHP activists led by Niraj Jain...
but if we talk about the works...
many famous artists said that many works were mediocre and aimed at drawing negative publicity and most of the concepts were not new...
the college authorities say it was just a part of the internal examination but the people who visited this include many Art collectors and exhibitors etc. in thick number....

Well...this is just another dimension to this controversy...

Are the art pieces that rake such controversies are really ''Good" works of art or as the news item put it just a few Mediocre repeats aiming at those 15 sec limelight!Well...this argument might never end!