Hindi Blogosphere’s Reactions to the Pink Chaddi Campaign Show the Divide Between Bharat and India

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As I wrote my analysis of the Valentine’s Day Pink Chaddi Campaign, I realized that it only appealed to the small minority of well-to-do, urban, English-speaking men and women in India who are amused by the irony of a woman being called ‘Pubgoing, Loose, and Forward’ in the same sentence. It also self-consciously distanced itself from the Indian mainstream which still wants its Bollywood heroines to be virginal and associates ‘Pubgoing, Loose, and Forward Women’ with the Bollywood vamps of yesteryears. The choice of sending pink panties to Shri Ram Sena further reinforced this self-consciously us versus them positioning.

I had earlier done a roundup of the discussions on the Pink Chaddi Campaign in the English language news media and the English blogosphere in India. To prove my hypothesis, I decided to test the limits of my Hindi and do a roundup of the discussions on the Pink Chaddi Campaign in the Hindi language news media and the Hindi blogosphere in India. I haven’t been able to search for Hindi news stories on the campaign, but the discussion on Hindi blogs did support my hypothesis.

In the English blogosphere in India, the discussion was dominated by supporters of the campaign who went on the offensive, while the detractors were mostly reacting to them. The discussion here was dominated by outrage against the Shri Ram Sena and appreciation of the campaign’s creativity.

In the Hindi blogosphere, the roles were reversed. Detractors of the Pink Chaddi Campaign were on the offensive here, forcing the supporters of the campaign on the defensive. The discussion here was dominated by the irrelevance and indignity of the campaign and the shamelessness of the women supporting it.

Suresh Chiplunkar and Sarthi set the tone for the discussion with strong posts against the campaign.

Sarthi emerged as one of the strongest critics of the Pink Chaddi campaign and wrote a series of posts to support his perspective –

कुछ लोगों ने अभियान चला दिया है कि तीव्रवादियों को गुलाबी चड्डियां भेजी जायें, वह भी चड्डी का मर्दाना नहीं नारियाना वेराईटी. सवाल यह है कि जिस देश में चोलीजांघिये का सरे आम प्रदर्शन करना भद्र लोगों के लिये अच्छा नहीं समझा जाता वहां ये लोग नवजवानों को क्या सिखा रहे हैं.

गुलाबी (या किसी और रंग की) चड्डियां भेजने से समाज का कोई फायदा नहीं होगा, न ही स्त्रियों को सामूहिक तौर पर को शराब पीने की आजादी मिल जायेगी, लेकिन मूर्खों द्वारा इस अभियान के लिये लाखों नारियाना अधोवस्त्र खरीदे जाने से चड्डी के निर्माता जरूर तर जायेंगे. क्या मालूम कहीं यह चड्डी-आंदोलन उन में से ही किसी की करतूत तो नहीं है? (link)

Some people have started a campaign to send pink underwear to the radicals, and that too of the female, not the male, variety. The question is: in a country where public display of undergarments is not considered right for decent people, what are these people trying to teach the youngsters?

Sending pink panties won’t help the society, nor will women get the freedom to drink alcohol, but the foolish people who will buy women’s undergarments for this campaign will certainly help the manufacturers of panties. Is it possible that they are responsible for the panty campaign? (link)

मामले को समझने के लिये सबसे पहले तो आलोच्य चिट्ठे के नाम और उस के भावार्थ को जरा देख लें. वे खुद साफ साफ बता रही हैं कि यह चिट्ठा “शराबखानों को आबाद करने वाली, नैतिकता को तिलांजली देने वाली चालू (या छिछोरी)” स्त्रियों का चिट्ठा है एवं इसे अपने इस जीवनशैली को एक प्रगतिशील कदम मानते हैं.

जो जनानियां अपने चिट्ठे पर अपने आप को चालू या छिछोरी बता रही हैं और जो जनानियां लोगों से पराये पुरुषों को अपने जांघिये भिजवा रही हैं, संस्कृति का संरक्षण तो उनके हाथ कतई भी नहीं छोडा जा सकता है क्योंकि इन लोगों का मिशन सिर्फ तब पूरा होगा जब जब हिन्दुस्तान की हर स्त्री इनके समान ही “प्रगतिवादी” और छिछोरी चिंतन की न हो जायें.

हमारी मां, बेटी, बहुओं को इस “प्रगतिवाद” की जरूरत नहीं है!! उनके अधोवस्त्र जहां रहने चाहिये वहीं रहेंगे. सभ्य परिवारों में ये नुमाइश की चीजें नहीं हैं — अत: न तो उनकी नुमाइश होगी, न ही पराये पुरुषों को भेजे जायेंगे. (link)

To understand this issue you should first look at the name of the blog in question and its meaning. They are saying themselves that the blog is for women who frequent pubs and have let go of their characters. And, yet, they consider their lifestyle a progressive step.

Those women who are calling themselves loose and characterless on their blog and asking women to send their panties to unknown men will consider themselves successful only when every woman in India becomes “progressive” and characterless like them. We can’t leave our culture in their hands.

Our mothers, daughters and daughters-in-law don’t need this “progressiveness”! Their undergarments will stay where they ought to stay. They will neither be displayed nor sent to unknown men. (link)

पढेलिखे परिवारों के वे जवान लोग जो नियमित रूप से सिर्फ छिछोरे किस्म के अंग्रेजी पिक्चर देखते हैं या जो सिर्फ छिछोरे किस्म के अंग्रेजी उपन्यास पढते हैं उनके मनों/जीवनों में उभरते नैतिक छिछोरेपन को देख लीजिये, सच्चाई समझ जायेंगे. सवाल स्त्रीविरोध/पुरुषविरोध का नहीं, बल्कि नैतिक छिछोरेपन के विरोध का है. (link)

Young people from educated families who regularly watch only characterless English films or read only characterless English novels, you should see the emerging characterless nature of their minds and lives, and you’ll understand the truth. The question is not of protesting against men or women, but protesting against moral bankruptcy. (link)

Suresh Chiplunkar speculated on the reasons behind the campaign –

यदि इस मुहिम को “तहलका” का समर्थन हासिल है तब तो यह विशुद्ध रूप से एक राजनैतिक अभियान है, क्योंकि तहलका की विश्वसनीयता और उसकी निष्पक्षता पहले से ही सन्देह के घेरे में है। “वेलेन्टाइन डे के दिन पब-बार को भर दो” का आव्हान तो निश्चित रूप से दारू कम्पनियों द्वारा प्रायोजित लगता है (क्योंकि पैसे के लिये इस प्रकार की पत्रकार कुछ भी कर सकते हैं) और यदि यह मुहिम निशाजी ने स्वयंस्फ़ूर्त ढंग से पैदा किया है तब तो इनकी मानसिक कंगाली पर तरस ही किया जा सकता है।

यदि प्रमोद मुतालिक इन सभी चड्डियों के साथ चिठ्ठी लगाकर वापस भेजें कि “…कल शायद पब में आप नशे में अपनी गुलाबी चड्डी वहीं भूल गई थीं और इसे गलती से मेरे पास भेज दिया गया है, कृपया वापस ले लीजिये…” तो क्या इसे अश्लीलता समझा जायेगा?

If this campaign has Tehelka’s support, then this is undoubtedly a political campaign, because Tehelka’s reliability and impartiality are anyways suspicious. The call to fill the pubs on Valentine’s Day is undoubtedly sponsored by liquor companies (because such journalists can do anything for money), and if Nisha has started this campaign on her own, then we can only pity her mental bankruptcy.

If Pramod Mutalik were to return these panties with a note — it seems that you left behind your panties in the pub last night, in your inebriated state, and they have been sent to me by mistake, please take them back — would it be considered indecent?

Sareetha pointed out that the Pink Chaddi Campaign is a symptom of the divide between ‘Bharat’ and India –

एक ज़माना वो भी था जब सरेआम चड्डियां तार पर सुखाने पर भी पाबंदी थी । लेकिन अब दौर आज़ादी का हैं । लोग खाकी चड्डी से गुलाबी चड्डी तक पर विचार – विमर्श करने से नहीं चूक रहे ।

वास्तव में ये भारत बनाम इंडिया का मसला है । वहां चड्डियां छिपाई जाती हैं यहां चड्डियां दिखाई जाती हैं। गनीमत समझो श्रीराम सेना वालों , जो इन आंदोलनकारियों की बुद्धि भगवान ने फ़ेर दी और आप सबकी इज़्ज़त धूल में मिलने से बच गई । हो सकता था ये लोग गुलाबी चड्डियां गिफ़्ट करने की बजाय खुद धारण कर विरोध जुलूस निकालने पर आमादा हो जाती और विभिन्न सेनाओं के बांकुरों के सामने आ धमकतीं। तब क्या होता??????

There was a time when it was considered wrong to even put out your panties to dry, after washing them. But now, it’s an era of freedom. People aren’t hesitating from discussing everything from khaki shorts to pink panties.

In reality, it’s a question of ‘Bharat’ versus India. In one, panties are hidden; in another, they are displayed. Shri Ram Sena should be glad that their reputation is saved. What if, instead of gifting pink panties, these women had decided to wear them in protest marches in front of the Shri Ram Sena cadre! What would have happened then?

Anil Pusadkar argued that India has far more important issue to tackle than the game of Pink Chaddis –

उस देश मे जहां, आज भी बेरोज़गारी, भुखमरी, गरीबी, अशिक्षा, जैसी गम्भीर समस्या सुरसा की तरह विकराल रुप मे मौज़ूद है,वहां एक विदेशी त्योहार के नाम पर चडडी पहनाने और उतारने का खेल(इसे खेल नही तो और क्या कहा जा सकता है)खेलने मे सारा देश भीड़ गया है।टीवी देखो तो ऐसा लगता है इससे बड़ी इस देश मे कोई समस्या ही नही है।मै तो बस चडडी बांटने और उतारने मे लगे तमाम डिज़ायनर चड्डीधारियों से ये आग्रह करना चाहूंगा कि वे अपने आस-पास भी नज़र दौड़ाए उन्हे बहुत से लोग फ़टी लंगोटी वाले नज़र आएंगे।चड्डी देना ही है तो उनकी मदद करिए शायद आपका दान सही ज़रुरतमंद के काम आ जाए।

In a country where serious issues like unemployment, starvation, poverty and illiteracy seem insurmountable, the entire country has become engaged in the game (because if its not a game, then what is it) of wearing and removing panties, in the name of a foreign festival. If you watch TV, it seems that there isn’t any bigger problem in the country. I’ll only request the designer underwear wearers engaged in wearing and removing panties to look around them and see the many people who are wearing torn singlets. If you must give away your underwear, you should help them, so that your donation may be of some use to the needy.

Tanmay tried to make sense of the protests but didn’t find it relevant to mainstream India —

क्रिया और प्रतिक्रिया के फलस्वरूप होने वाले विरोध में पहले ये जानना ज्यादा जरूरी हो जाता है कि विरोध किया किस बात का जा रहा था। जो चड्डियाँ भेजी जा रही हैं वो किसके विरोध में भेजी जा रही हैं लड़कियों या महिलाओं पर हाथ उठाया गया, उनके साथ मारपीट की गयी इस बात पर या फिर इस बात पर कि लड़कियों को पब में पीने से रोका गया। इस पुरूषवादी समाज में महिलाओं के साथ इस तरह की मारपीट पहली बार नही हुई है, इससे पहले कई मर्तबा हो चुकी है लेकिन कभी उस जोर शोर से हल्ला नही मचाया गया जैसा इस वक्त। और अगर विरोध इस बात पर है कि महिलाओं को पब में क्यों नही पीने दिया गया? तो… पब में जाने वाले क्या लड़के लड़कियाँ समाज के कितने प्रतिशत लोगों का प्रतिनिध्त्व करते हैं। मुश्किल से शायद १५ प्रतिशत या उससे भी कम।

In the midst of these protests and counter-protests, it’s important to understand what we are protesting against. The panties that are being sent, what are they being sent in protest of: the fact that women were beaten up or the fact that women were stopped from drinking in pubs. In this masculine society, this is not the first time violence against women has happened. It has happened many times before and no one has raised their voices against it like this time. And if the protest is against women not being allowed to drink in pubs, what percentage of the society is represented by the men and women who frequent pubs? Hardly 15% and perhaps even less.

Ashish argued that the Pink Chaddi campaign will benefit Nisha Susan and Pramod Mutalik but not solve any problems –

इस आन्दोलन के समर्थकों को एक बार अवश्य सोचना चाहिए कि इससे मीडिया-मुतालिक-पब और चड्डी क्वीन बनी निशा सूसन को फायदा होने वाला है. आम आदमी को इसका क्या लाभ? मीडिया को टी आर पी मिल रही है. मुतालिक का गली छाप श्री राम सेना आज मीडिया और चड्डी वालियों की कृपा से अंतरराष्ट्रीय ख्याति प्राप्त सेना बन चुकी है. अब इस नाम की बदौलत उनके दूसरे धंधे खूब चमकेंगे और हो सकता है- इस (अ) लोकप्रियता की वजह से कल वह आम सभा चुनाव में चुन भी लिया जाए. चड्डी वालियों को समझना चाहिए की वह नाम कमाने के चक्कर में इस अभियान से मुतालिक का नुक्सान नहीं फायदा कर रहीं हैं.

The supporters of this campaign must realize that it will only benefit media-Mutalik-pub and panty queen Nisha Susan. What is the benefit to the common man? Media is getting higher TRPs. Mutalik’s roadside Shri Ram Sena, thanks to media and the panty women, is now known internationally. They’ll use this notoriety to their benefit and, who know, might even win an election as a result of it. The panty women need to understand that, in their pursuit of fame, they are helping, not harming, Mutalik.

Shankar Phulara wrote a sarcastic poem on why the campaign is misguided and pointed out that the Shri Ram Sena cadre are still walking with their heads held high, instead of lowering them in shame.

Even though many Hindi bloggers supported the Pink Chaddi Campaign, they did it half-heartedly, in reaction to the accusations from Sarthi and Suresh.

Atul Chaurasia, who is Nisha Susan’s colleague at Tehelka, supported the Pink Chaddi campaign (also see) –

शायद निशा के अभियान को आप ठीक से समझ नहीं सके हैं. उसने पहले ही साफ कर दिया था कि वैलेंटाइन डे से उसका कोई लेना-देना नहीं है, न ही वो उसकी समर्थक या बैरी है. उसका विरोध सिर्फ श्रीराम सेना के तरीके, उनकी स्वयंभू ठेकेदारी, दूसरों की व्यक्तिगत आजादी का फैसला कोई तीसरा करे जैसे कुछ बेहद मूल मसलों से है.

एक बेहद मौजू सवाल है कभी शांति से दो मिनट मिले तो विचार कीजिएगा. यदि अपकी पुत्री, पत्नी या बहन भरे बाजार इन मतिहीनों का शिकार हो जाने के बाद भी आपकी प्रतिक्रिया क्या यही रहेगी? किसी को भी किसी महिला से ज्यादती करने का अधिकार सिर्फ संस्कृति रक्षा के आडंबर तले दिया जा सकता है क्या? उत्तर शायद नकारात्मक आए.

It seems that you don’t understand Nisha’s campaign. she has already said that it’s not about Valentine’s Day, and she neither supports nor opposes it. Her protest is about basic issues like Shri Ram Sena self-appointing themselves as the custodians of Indian culture and encroaching into our personal freedoms.

Here’s another question you should think about when you have two minutes. If your own daughter, wife or sister were victims of these misguided miscreants, would you have reacted in the same way? Should anyone be allowed to take liberties with any women under the guise of protecting our culture? Maybe, you’ll answer in the negative.

Other bloggers also countered the points raised by the campaign’s detractors using similar arguments.

जो समाज जितना बन्द होगा और जिस समाज मे जितनी ज़्यादा विसंगतियाँ पाई जाएंगी वहाँ विरोध के तरीके और रूप भी उतने ही अतिवादी रूप मे सामने आएंगे।सूसन के यहाँ अश्लील कुछ नही, लेकिन टिप्पणियों मे जो भद्र जन सूसन पर व्यक्तिगत आक्षेप कर रहे हैं वे निश्चित ही अश्लील हैं। (Sujata)

The more closed and warped a society is the more extreme the protests will be. Susan isn’t doing anything indecent, but the men who are throwing personal allegations at Susan are indeed indecent. (Sujata)

जिस समाज में पुरुषत्व बहुत् गहराई तक रचा बसा हुआ हो उस समाज को झंकझोरने के लिए अपनाए जाने तरीके सतही हों तो काम नहीं चलेगा ! जिस समाज में स्त्री -पुरुष की अवस्थिति बाइनरी ऑपोज़िट्स की तरह हो उस समाज में स्त्री और पुरुष द्वारा अपनाए गए विरोध के तरीके समान हों यह कैसे हो सकता है ! (
Neelima)

A society that is seeped in masculinity can only be shaken by unconventional forms of protests. A society in which the situation of men and women is binary opposites, men and women cannot use the same forms of protests. (Neelima)

उस स्थिति मे विरोध का जो भी तरीका हो वों चुप रहने से बेहतर है। और विरोध के तरीके भी कोई सन्दर्भ रहित नही होते। एक अति दूसरी अति को जन्म देगी ये निश्चित है। पर विरोध के तरीके को ग़लत बताने वाले अपने घरो मे दुबक कर क्यो बैठ जाते है, जब राम सेना के विरोध की बारी आती है? क्यों नही इससे ज़्यादा रचनात्मक तरीका ढूंढते है, अपने लोकतंत्र को बचाने का ?
(Swapnadarshi)

In this context, any form of protest is better than keeping quiet. No protest is devoid of context. One excess gives birth to another excess. Why do those who oppose this form of protest stay in their houses when it comes to opposing Shri Ram Sena? Why don’t they think of more creative ways to save our democracy? (Swapnadarshi)

नारी के अंग वस्त्र का प्रदर्शन , यानी भारतीये संस्कृति ख़तम । यानी भारतीये संस्कृति टिकी हैं नारी के अन्ग्वास्त्रो के सहारे ।
(Rachna)

If a woman’s undergarments are revealed, it’s the end of Indian civilization! It means that Indian civilization is held up by women’s undergarments!
(Rachna)

चलिए हम पिंक चड्ढी वालों के विरोध के तरीके का विरोध करें। क्योंकि उनका तरीका संस्कृति के रक्षकों से अधिक खतरनाक है। हम यह ना देखें कि वे अपने वस्त्र उतारकर देने को नहीं कह रहीं, बाजार से नई या फिर अपनी अलमारी से पुरानी भेजने को कह रही हैं। वे इसे क्यों कर रही हैं यह समझने में सोचना पड़ता है, उन्हें समझना पड़ता है, उनके स्थान पर स्वयं को रखकर देखना पड़ता है। यह सोचना पड़ता है कि यदि मैं युवा होती, स्त्री होती तो ये सब परिस्थितियाँ मुझे कैसी लगतीं। वे केवल और केवल एक काम कर रही हैं, इस हास्यास्पद तरीके से कट्टरपंथियों को हास्यास्पद बना रही हैं। हाँ, शायद उन्होंने जानबूझकर इसे ऐसा बनाया ताकि लोगों का ध्यान आकर्शित कर सकें। परन्तु नहीं, वे अधिक खतरनाक हैं। (Ghughuti Basuti)

Let’s protest against the means of protest of the Pink Chaddi Campaign. Because their means are more dangerous than the self-apponited custodians of our culture. To understand why they are doing it, we need to think, we need to understand them, we need to put ourselves in their place. We need to think how I would have felt about the situation if I was young, if I was a woman. They are doing one and only one thing. By using these laughable means they are making the conservatives laughable. Yes, maybe, they deliberately made it so, to attract attention from people. But, no, they are more dangerous. (Ghughuti Basuti)

मुतालिक और इस किस्‍म की तमाम सेनाएं देश के अस्तित्‍व मात्र के लिए भयानक खतरा हैं जिनका हर कदम पर दमभर विरोध होना चाहिए। जिन्‍हें एक तरीके का विरोध पसंद नहीं वे दूसरे तरीके से कर लें लेकिन अपनी ऊर्जा विरोध का विरोध करने की बजाए इन मुतालिकों के विरोध में लगाएं, तथा वे जो खुद इसी सेनाई मानसिकता से हैं वे भी सामने आकर अपनी बात रखें इस उस चड्डी के बहाने छिपकर वार न करें। (
Masijeevi
)

Mutalik and other forces like him are serious threats to the country and need to be ferociously challenged. Those who do not like one form of protest may protest in another way, but they shouldn’t waste their energy protesting the protest, instead of protesting against the Mutaliks. Those who agree with these forces should come out and put forth their arguments and not wage a war on the pretext of criticizing the Chaddi campaign. (
Masijeevi
)

Here are a few other posts on the Pink Chaddi Campaign in other Indian regional languages: Mathavaraj, Neelanjala, ePathram, and Govikannan. I’ll be grateful if the writers, or someone who knows the language, will leave a comment to share the gist of the posts.

Cross-posted at MSFS 556: Social Media in Business, Development and Government and International Values and Communications Technologies.

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  • very nice to know that people are reading Hindi blogs and discussing them in this manner .
    thanks 4 exact translation as above.


    i think that such issues or campaign have ever wanted 2 attracted the mass only!!



    प्राइमरी का मास्टर
    फतेहपुर
  • Hi. It's nice to know that people are reading Hindi blogs and discussing them. It's even nicer to know that people are aware that we are writing on issues related to women.Some of us are writing on these issues fairly regularly.
    Hindi readers are not really very different from English readers.India and Bharat divide might be there but its slowly but surely reducing.
    Thanks for mentioning my blog and the blogs of my fellow bloggers. We in the Hindi blog world are as sensitive to issues facing our society as are bloggers in other languages.
    I had written an article on this topic in English too and you can read it on my English blog http://miredmiragemusings.blogspot.com/2009/05/...
    Ghughuti Basuti
  • Mr. Suresh Chiplunkar told, 'If this campaign has Tehelka’s support, then this is undoubtedly a political campaign, because Tehelka’s reliability and impartiality are anyways suspicious'
    But Mr. Chiplunkar is also a political person and strong sporter of Sangh's Ideology. Naturally he has a soft corner with Shri Ramsena. The Pink Chaddi campaign was a reply to the Shri Ramsena and is a correct strategy against these type of agitators.
  • rachna
    gaurav hi
    thanks for the link from http://indianwomanhasarrived.blogspot.com/
    I am the moderator of this blog and i try to bring out the dofference between what people preach and what people do . shastri and suresh were against the public display of undergarments but on their own blogs they displayed the same garments . if they had somesenstivity as they claim for indian values and cultures then should have avoided putting up such pics but they promote what they preach not to do .
    besides that on many hindi blogs they keep writing that the cause of rape is the woman themselfs .
    i am happy to note that u have translated the same here .
  • From a former WSJ reporter, woman and Californian here's my take
    http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/02/19/how-...
    + here's a tool that may be helpful in the reaction to this issue - Herdict
    http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/03/09/now-...
  • NIVEDITA
    The very concept of loose and forward women is very amusing, because doesn't it acknowledge that, hence forth the women are going to be loose and forward? why loose and forward?

    Pub going and free sex was never banned for men in the modern society nor was it banned to women in vedic times. The very idea that men could flaunt their washed panties and women could not, showed how vulnerable we women were in modern India. which was divided between hidden and bold.

    The middle class in India is still hooked on to the non hidden , brush under the carpet ideology and hails sacrifice as the biggest virtue, and at the same time gives the freedom to men, who ogle and rape or molest women, who are "westernized" or wear revealing clothes!.
    The argument here is women should cover themselves to get on to a pedestal in the society.

    Ram Sena now has exploited this vulnerability of the society as a whole , to beat women for going to pubs or being loose.
    First of all we the Bold or Conservative of India should understand that freedom is a personal choice,
    We don't become unholy if women start washing their panties in public, instead it is high time that they did it, so that men will take it in their stride and reciprocate the same by hiding thier's for once!

    Let live and be civilized.
  • Hi Gaurav, thanks for giving my link on your this post to prove your hypothesis related with same issue, just one correction though my name is Tarun not Tanmay. :)

    it was interesting to read your blog posts.
  • why there was so little discussion on the campaign amongst Kannada blogs?

    Hi, Vikas Here. Got in to this site thru Neelanjala blog. You have asked y ther was no much discussion in Kannada blogs about it. The main reason is , neither pub attack nor pink chaddi campaign is of that much importance to the people of karnatka here. Those incidents were mainly highlighted and given publicity in some English medias only. Most of the Kannada bloggers were neutral about pub attack. Only very few bloggers opposed it in their blogs. Even, condemning was only for mishandling women in pub and not for attacking a pub.

    Coming to the Pink chaddi, most of the Kannada bloggers are from decent, cultured family back ground and women, men kannada bloggers who opposed pub attack were also against/neutral about the pink chaddi campaign since it is treated as a very cheap act here. No woman wants to categorize herself as a 'loose women' and people/women mentality is not of such low level here . Here, Definitely it was a difference of 'India and Bhaaratha' (as we say in Kannada).

    More over we believed, these kind of incidents can be best handled by neglecting it! :)
  • I also wrote a piece in Hindi on this debate under the title जाने क्यों, साफ कहते डरते हैं. Since you have put all posts on this topic in Hindi here, I thought I might also inform about it.
  • I also wrote a piece in Hindi on this debate under the title जाने क्यों, साफ कहते डरते हैं. Since you have put all posts on this topic in Hindi here, I thought I might also inform about it.
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