Painting the town Pink

Nisha Susan's Pink Chaddi Campaign may have got a tremendous response, but will have no effect on the Ram Sene, feel readers

You needn't be vulgar to register your protest. These opening lines from the Latin American novelist Julio Cortazar's novel The Ashtray articulate Nisha Susan's not- so-tasteful way of protesting against the vandalism at the Mangalore pub recently .
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Nisha is collecting pink panties from all over India and sending them to the Ram Sene office on February 13, a day before Valentine's Day. What'll she achieve by this novel (and noble for some) tactic? Is this an act of Gandhigiri?

The young girl doesn't understand that this literally amounts to showing a red rag to the rampageous bull. "Woman is the most irrational creature.

She can go to the outermost rim of the world to jump into the unfathomable cosmos, just to show that she's unhappy about something," wrote Nietzsche in My Father's Concubine.

Nisha's act is in the same nature. Instead of stooping down to collecting and sending panties, women rather thrash the vandals.u00a0 Why insult the womanhood and degrade oneself? This act won't
make any difference to the

Ram Sene activists.

Identity crisis

Every young girl, I know is kicked about the Pink Chaddi Campaign. The Facebook group A Consortium of Pub-Going, Loose and Forward Women has received a tumultuous response from women across the country. This initiative is different and it's definitely revolutionary in nature. But it lacks dignity.
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There's no doubt that Sri Ram Sene's act was loathsome and the party should be banned. But sending cheap panties to a bunch of perverts is not going to help.

I am not against going to pubs or women drinking. But, the GenY may be going overboard in aping the West.
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If India's younger generation wants to usher in a change, starting movements like the Pink Chaddi Campaign in fit of rage will not really help.

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I was as tickled as the next person on reading about the pink chaddi initiative. However, I was dismayed that newspapers had mentioned the name of Nisha Susan, so prominently.

In these days of heightened danger, the story should have been handled with more restraint for her safety.
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There will be manyu00a0 people who will now see her as the face of a "dangerous" movement. It's one thing to declare that one is not afraid, but the ground reality could be different. The media has been irresponsible.