While some may call this indecent, i prefer to call this Gandhigiri at its best! With its Facebook online avatar (the consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women) and its blogspot cousin: http://thepinkchaddicampaign.blogspot.com/ and onground pink chaddi collection centres, the Pink Chaddi campign is the latest and best in new found Gandhigiri! This also forms a perfect script for "Munnabhai and Pink Chaddi", if Rajkunar Hirani is planning a third edition of his Munnabhai blockbusters. Imagine Mallika Sherawat in the movie sending one of hers to Pramod Muthalik!
Citizen activism is up and catching up real fast. For all those years, where the common educated person was at the recieving end of Politics, this is the first time, outfits like Sri Ram Sene and bullies like Pramod Muthalik are facing the music of an angry population!
What happened in Mangalore was shameful and these self proclaimed bully armies need to be given the bittergourd treatement! In another interesting newsbit, the Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, has urged the prime minister to "rein" in the Union Women and Child Development minister Renuka Chaudhury for her caustic remarks about his government's inabilities to ensure law and order in his state (ref the Mangalore Pub incident). http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20090209/1173057.html
Gimmick or no gimmick, citizen activism is doing what the political brass and the Babudom have not been able to do so far. They are showing the end of tolerance of the Indians towards such irresponsible acts and behaviour. So then, Muthalik has wilted under the pressure of a citizen movement coupled with media hounding and has apologised
So for, the citizen activism part: Jay Ho... Jay Ho!
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