Section 294

Watching Opernation Majnu on NDTV aroused indignation of similar kind which I presumed must have been so with any other liberal modern citizen of shining India.The Argumentative Indian here might have differences over what might or could have been ''modern shining India'but that would have to be dealt some other day.

For now, my issue is with the responses that i have been receiving from many of my colleagues and my close friends.The violence witnessed (slap slap slap slap,kick kick slap pull-hair slap slap!!) was condemned (thankfully)and concluded with a high-brow view that moral-depravity has been on the increase of late.The police have taken cover behind Section 294 [Whoever, to the annoyance of other, does any obscene act in any public place ... shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both]for this absurd Taliban-like behaviour.The police living upto their cliched stance of being ignorant,corrupt and ruthless has not suprised me,however what does my head in ,is the stance of the public in acknowledging a a mean need to train/teach/educate/ youngsters on culture n tradition.

WHO DECIDES WHAT IS OBSCENE?>society??who decides these are the dust laden principles that one has to abide to earn the right to live in such societies?