Painting the town Pink

Updated On: 12 February, 2009 08:16 AM IST | | Midday Readers

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

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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