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Valentine’s Day is a Western holiday and has no place in India. Even in the West it was more so a made up holiday by greeting card companies and businesses. This is just a soft attempt to import jihadism and crusaderism to undermine Hindus. No luck.
Bad examples given. What you are describing is not love but good old fashioned sex.
Certainly romantic love is expressed physically but making out under staircases on on hourly basis is not a good advertisement for what you are trying to sell.
A lot of these couples-booking-hotel-rooms-by-hour are in reality flesh trade practices. Police has no issue with celebrating valentine’s day, it is the illegal trade in the guise of valentine’s day that this is a problem. Also it seems Valentine’s Day is mostly celebrated in India, never have I seen so much hoopla over this day in the US.
I and my wife are in early thirties and we met and fell in love 6 years back, when we were in mid 20s. Even then we didn’t give a hoot to this day. It’s a stupid day, and couples should give each other love and respect in each and every second of their time together. Those who are students should concentrate on making the best out of their education and don’t get distracted by these idiocies.
Celebrate real Indian holidays not made up garbage. Valentines Day in US is the once a year time middle aged couples pretend they are still romantic. It was made up by businesses to sell goods between Spring and Christmas season in US. Even Europeans only started to celebrate Valentine’s Day after America. You young people need education.
Haha..writer wants potray infrastructure and INDIAN middle class mentality. Well fact of matter valentine’s is not half a festival that it is made out in India. Cause you can celebrate and crib only when on parent’s money. So only infrastructure that is missing is that 18 plus till even 28 years do not work full or part time. In west you will be working or won’t have valentine so will have your pad and no need to go to hotel… etc.. If you are in college rarely anyone stays with parents again no need for trees in park or hotel. Yeah hostel rules may be bit more permissive though but will you convince feminists and women rights to keep their part of deal.
It is probably the lack of infrastructure of love which has saved us from the brunt of COVID. Public display of love by mooching and hugging could very well be the reason of massive spread of the pandemic in certain societies.
Neera Mazumdar: The United States has no patriarchy, has better mental health, sex education and laws governing consent. Why does it have one of the higher rates of teenage pregnancies, suicides, mental illnesses and rates on incarceration. I would suggest a primer on neuroscience to understand how Valentine-day leads to rapes, teenage pregnancies, and suicides. For that you have to understand that frontal lobe of brain which is involved in decision-making, reasoning, thinking the outcomes of one’s actions. This is last to mature in an adolescents. What you call love: is actually a chemical reaction in brain. It needs mature frontal part of brain to form relationships and be responsible for one’s actions. You could educate yourself before writing imaginary (not supported by any date) and unscientific articles. Here is a link from Harvard School website: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/
Valentine’s Day is a Western holiday and has no place in India. Even in the West it was more so a made up holiday by greeting card companies and businesses. This is just a soft attempt to import jihadism and crusaderism to undermine Hindus. No luck.
Bad examples given. What you are describing is not love but good old fashioned sex.
Certainly romantic love is expressed physically but making out under staircases on on hourly basis is not a good advertisement for what you are trying to sell.
A lot of these couples-booking-hotel-rooms-by-hour are in reality flesh trade practices. Police has no issue with celebrating valentine’s day, it is the illegal trade in the guise of valentine’s day that this is a problem. Also it seems Valentine’s Day is mostly celebrated in India, never have I seen so much hoopla over this day in the US.
I and my wife are in early thirties and we met and fell in love 6 years back, when we were in mid 20s. Even then we didn’t give a hoot to this day. It’s a stupid day, and couples should give each other love and respect in each and every second of their time together. Those who are students should concentrate on making the best out of their education and don’t get distracted by these idiocies.
Love makes people stupid and crazy. No need for anyone to fall in love. One should have an arranged marriage and be happy for life.
We need young people to make a stand. To organize and show strength against these moral police. I don’t think that young couples are in the minority.
Celebrate real Indian holidays not made up garbage. Valentines Day in US is the once a year time middle aged couples pretend they are still romantic. It was made up by businesses to sell goods between Spring and Christmas season in US. Even Europeans only started to celebrate Valentine’s Day after America. You young people need education.
Haha..writer wants potray infrastructure and INDIAN middle class mentality. Well fact of matter valentine’s is not half a festival that it is made out in India. Cause you can celebrate and crib only when on parent’s money. So only infrastructure that is missing is that 18 plus till even 28 years do not work full or part time. In west you will be working or won’t have valentine so will have your pad and no need to go to hotel… etc.. If you are in college rarely anyone stays with parents again no need for trees in park or hotel. Yeah hostel rules may be bit more permissive though but will you convince feminists and women rights to keep their part of deal.
It is probably the lack of infrastructure of love which has saved us from the brunt of COVID. Public display of love by mooching and hugging could very well be the reason of massive spread of the pandemic in certain societies.
Neera Mazumdar: The United States has no patriarchy, has better mental health, sex education and laws governing consent. Why does it have one of the higher rates of teenage pregnancies, suicides, mental illnesses and rates on incarceration. I would suggest a primer on neuroscience to understand how Valentine-day leads to rapes, teenage pregnancies, and suicides. For that you have to understand that frontal lobe of brain which is involved in decision-making, reasoning, thinking the outcomes of one’s actions. This is last to mature in an adolescents. What you call love: is actually a chemical reaction in brain. It needs mature frontal part of brain to form relationships and be responsible for one’s actions. You could educate yourself before writing imaginary (not supported by any date) and unscientific articles. Here is a link from Harvard School website: http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/