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  • Now the Hindu fanatics are feeling the hate for Valentine's Day.

    First the Saudi fanatics and now the Indian fanatics. Down with fanatics.

    NEW DELHI (Feb. 13) - India's Hindu hard-liners are showing no love for Valentine's Day. A few dozen protesters briefly blocked a road in downtown New Delhi on Wednesday, burning Valentine's Day cards and chanting "Down with Valentine." In the nearby city of Lucknow, extremists threatened to beat up couples found celebrating their love.

    "We are deadly against Valentine's Day," said Sapan Dutta, a regional leader of the hard-line Shiv Sena group. "We are for civilized love and affection."

    The protests by groups like Shiv Sena, who say they are defending traditional Indian values from Western-style promiscuity, have become an annual media event.

    But they appear to be fighting a losing battle, particularly in India's cities, where a booming economy has brought with it all the trappings of Western culture, including McDonald's, MTV and of course, Valentine's Day.

    Shops stock Valentine's cards and chocolates, vendors boost prices of red roses, and restaurants offer romantic specials.

    Many of India's English-language newspapers had front-page Valentine's Day stories ahead of the holiday Thursday.

    The Times of India said security would be stepped up around New Delhi University's rose gardens to prevent young Romeos from plucking flowers, and the Hindustan Times cited doctors advising people not to abuse aphrodisiacs or drugs like Viagra.

    Still, a handful of hard-liners threatened to disrupt celebrations.

    "Our volunteers will check parks, hotels and restaurants and swoop upon young lovers found walking hand-in-hand," said Vijay Tiwari, a Shiv Sena activist in Lucknow.

    In recent years, there have been several cases of couples being attacked while seeking privacy in local parks.

    Police in Lucknow said they would stop any intimidation.

    "We will not allow anyone to take the law into his own hands in the name of cultural policing," said Brij Lal, a senior police officer.

    Those planning celebrations said they would not be put off.

    "What right do these people have to set the do's and don'ts for young lovers on Valentine's Day? We have planned a massive party and will go ahead with it," said Abhinav Sharma, a college student.
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    Stop stealing our commercial holidays
    Lime roots and treachery!
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    • #3
      Hindus against love because it is so... western?
      I thought kamasutra and the likes were precisely hindu culture?!?!
      civilized love and affection
      The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.

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      • #4
        At least Indian Government officials are trying to stop the fanatics where as the Saudi government officials are the fanatics.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Dry
          Hindus against love because it is so... western?
          I thought kamasutra and the likes were precisely hindu culture?!?!
          civilized love and affection
          Is that code for forced marriage, loveless marriage, and caste warfare?
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          • #6
            Not to forget widow burning.

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            • #7
              Or what about burning new brides alive if her parents refuse to pay a big enough bribe... er, "dowery".

              "Traditional" Indian values.

              Valentine's Day.
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              • #8
                I've never been into the Valentine's Day circus. Perhaps because it didn't come here before a few years ago, but not very interested in the thing really. I don't tend to make much fuzz out of my non-interest though.
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                • #9
                  I despair of stupid people.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Dry
                    Hindus against love because it is so... western?
                    I thought kamasutra and the likes were precisely hindu culture?!?!
                    civilized love and affection
                    I think they're mostly against public displays of affection.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by aneeshm
                      I despair of stupid people.
                      Because they don't understand teh history of Hindu civilization, and so can not judge contemporary practices.
                      Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                      The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                      The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Heraclitus

                        Because they don't understand teh history of Hindu civilization, and so can not judge contemporary practices.
                        I don't know what you mean by that, but when I said stupid people, I referred to the people who were doing all the card-burning and rioting and intimidation and stuff.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Lorizael

                          I think they're mostly against public displays of affection.
                          I don't know. They're probably just enraged that they aren't men enough to celebrate this day - no sane girl would look at them.

                          Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by aneeshm


                            I don't know what you mean by that, but when I said stupid people, I referred to the people who were doing all the card-burning and rioting and intimidation and stuff.
                            Ohh, sorry I thought you were going to try to defend this.

                            Stupid people are a blight, the western world has a larger population of those than India.
                            Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
                            The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
                            The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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                            • #15
                              I hate Valentine's Day too. Its sole purpose is to make money for Hallmark, florists, restaurants and jewelers.

                              Thankfully, my wife agrees.

                              -Arrian
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