I did not expect this to come in rediff. This has come as a joke if you ask me. Some part of it is true and some part is more like given as a joke scene in a movie. But the reality is chennai might be getting better. Rediff should weigh the contents before publishing it IMO.
What kind of stupid article is this? Do you not have anything sensible to print. The topic chosen is written is a very bad taste. Please maintain quality.
This article is very well written. Puts light on the truth of how some people just want to bully the others in the name of our sacred culture. I cease to understand, why some elders and educated people fail to accept the change that is happening in our nation. Isnt it obvious that, more we try to hold things back, more they show up? We have to educate the younger generation and help them differentiate the right from the wrong. Bossing around them, keeping them in the clutch of fear; is surely not a solution.
Hope people do realise this someday and live and let the rest live a happy and peaceful life.
Green Signal from me to Chennai's Big Brother. Yes, the concern towards culture should be highly appreciated. It should be slowly cascaded to call it as "Indian Culture" rather than "Chennai Culture". India is changing. We are getting more westernized which is really intimidating. The concept of "Discotheque", "Dating" is wide spread. Love marraiges are becoming more common than arrange marraiges. We aren't sure where we are marching. Our culture is vanishing slowly. We should set standards and be an example to others. Instead, we've started inheriting habits from the West. I totally concur with Scene2. Where did we learn this from? Be it couples. This totally is not the way to cherish. Movie now-a-days, especially Hindi movies is all crap. The message they give is that pre-marital sex is to be taken easy. Big Brother action against all these is totally acceptable though bit harsh. Someone has got to be vociferous in stopping all this. For those who don't agree, I'm not a grandfather or father who is more than 50+ who is worried about my daughters in getting them married. I'm a youth who is totally worried about our culture. Please save our tradition. Let a new revolution begin.
Chennai is a great city ofcourse and has great culture. Kissing a girl who is not ur wife is an offend in all religions irrespective of the community or country.
We should adhere to certain principles while we live. Swapping husbands is quite common in western culture and these freedom loving people, are ready to share their wives?
This kinds of act leads to HIV and then we will live in fear and uncertainity rather than having some principles in life.
Daily gangrape in Delhi, thousands and thousands of girls into prostitution in mumbai are the quite few examples of our adaption of western culture.
this is fairly a one sided portrayal of the city. the columnist has very cleverly narrated selective parts of the instances to her advantage, adding a figment of her own imagination in the end! i don't know what kind of cultural freedom the columnist has in her mind. but one thing is sure - chennai will do well without any of that. i guess she has come back again with half-cooked facts (probably gathered from reading newspaper headlines only), and with an apparent bias. wondering whether this is even worth a read.
This article is crap and unnecessarily over exaggerated. A few isolated incidents are unnecessarily blown up and every one has easily forgotten the fact that the hotel which was the problem was illegally operating with restricted licenses. BTW I am not from Chennai, and not even from TN and still feel strongly that these kind of crap articles should not be published here..
