You May Not Kiss The Bride
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Wed Sep 21, 2005 @ 11:17pm |
 Coolness: 149725 | In India, you may NOT kiss the bride
Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:47 AM ET15 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Israeli couple was fined 1,000 rupees after an Indian court found them guilty of obscenity for kissing during their marriage ceremony in a Hindu pilgrim town, newspapers reported Wednesday. The couple had decided to have a traditional Hindu marriage while visiting Pushkar town earlier this month in the temple-studded desert state of Rajasthan, The Times of India reported. But they infuriated the priest as they started to kiss and embrace while he was chanting vedic hymns. The priest, along with other Hindu holy men, complained to police, who filed charges against the couple. The court in Pushkar gave its verdict Tuesday. The Asian Age newspaper said Hindu priests were outraged. "We will not tolerate any cultural pollution of this sort," Ladoo Ram Sharma, president of an organization of Hindu priests in Pushkar, was quoted as saying. Pushkar has a famous temple dedicated to Brahma -- the Hindu god of creation -- and is popular with foreign tourists who come for its desert ambience, camel safaris and annual camel fair. India has tough obscenity laws and kissing in public is frowned upon in the largely conservative country. Last October, local residents in the western state complained to authorities that a group of Israeli women had danced naked near Pushkar. © Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Reuters |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» El_Presidente replied on Thu Sep 22, 2005 @ 1:02pm |
 Coolness: 300235 | nuke em! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mr_Frog replied on Thu Sep 22, 2005 @ 3:31pm |
 Coolness: 98010 | bah, 1000 rupees is like 26$, big deal :P |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Thu Sep 22, 2005 @ 6:11pm |
 Coolness: 202135 | "We will not tolerate any cultural pollution of this sort"
Well we have to put up with "cultural pollution" from indians who come here all the time |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» mdc replied on Thu Sep 22, 2005 @ 8:15pm |
| Coolness: 149725 | no.. thats air pollution!! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Thu Sep 22, 2005 @ 8:21pm |
 Coolness: 686500 | Originally posted by SCOTTYP...
"We will not tolerate any cultural pollution of this sort" Well we have to put up with "cultural pollution" from indians who come here all the time AMEN! I mean.... CTHULU RULES j00 ALL |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka replied on Fri Sep 23, 2005 @ 10:30am |
| Coolness: 53340 | mmm i want samosas |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» soyfunk replied on Fri Sep 23, 2005 @ 10:48am |
 Coolness: 127680 | there isn't any culture to polute in the first place
over here i mean |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey replied on Fri Sep 23, 2005 @ 1:15pm |
 Coolness: 103675 | And we all thought the largest democracy in the world with backward thinking was the United States. Bravo India. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Sun Sep 25, 2005 @ 11:09am |
| Coolness: 179555 | cultural pollution... :( That's sad to hear. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Tue Sep 27, 2005 @ 9:43pm |
 Coolness: 49365 | thats fucking dumb..You cant kiss your wife in india but its acceptable to let leppers and sick people rot in the street...fuck them. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cactain_steef replied on Tue Sep 27, 2005 @ 9:58pm |
 Coolness: 155585 | hey ath-hole! how bout not stereotyping because you heard one story.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Tue Sep 27, 2005 @ 10:43pm |
| Coolness: 202135 | yeah india has a lot of people, customs vary widely |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Tue Sep 27, 2005 @ 11:28pm |
| Coolness: 49365 | have you ever been?? I passed through once and what a fucking place of have and have nots...instead of arresting people for kissing they should feed all of those starving there...Goa rocks...the rest sucks...eat me |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Wed Sep 28, 2005 @ 12:09pm |
 Coolness: 57110 | Originally posted by BEATJUNKIE...
thats fucking dumb..You cant kiss your wife in india but its acceptable to let leppers and sick people rot in the street...fuck them. I like how you brought up the lack of logical consistency in the laws as the problem wether you would use those words or not. It confirms my expectation since there is no universal law that is all acknowledged and well wroked out on the planet earth atleast not by human construction. What I mean to say is one gets the same type of logical inconsistency I would bet all over in law books all over. Why, because our economies, the international community is based on injustice called by another name. But in order to have injustice, one requires logical inconsistancy. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Wed Sep 28, 2005 @ 12:10pm |
| Coolness: 57110 | I hope that people come to not make over generalizations based on a particular event. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» BeAtJuNkIe replied on Wed Sep 28, 2005 @ 5:14pm |
| Coolness: 49365 | Dont get me wrong, I dont hate Indians, but after spending a week there and realizing how backwards everything was it makes you wanna leave and never look back. There are many injustices in our own society, just I have never seen it on such a wide scale.Not even in Mexico. I know the caste system has to do with religious beliefs, but how the fuck can you justify shaming someone just because of their lineage.India has money for a nuclear program, but cant put food in peoples mouths...i mean like wtf?Goa was paridise, but thats only because you didnt see the crap you saw in the major urban centers.That and the drugs and music rocked! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 12:39am |
 Coolness: 93175 | The government doesn't always reflect the views of the people.
from what I hear, it's hard to feed the starving kids cause if you give one a loaf of bread, the rest flock around you like seagulls, and then all of a sudden you find yourself feeling like shit fro not having a hundred loafs of bread. It should be the governments job. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 8:38am |
| Coolness: 57110 | I'm glad that you don't hate indians, you would only be hating a part of yourself. It's extremely trajic that places can be so filled with disturbance and injustice so as to want to run away from it... in my culture, my ego (little me) has been stroked, fed, catered to so much that at times I'd rather just have pleasure... fight or flight just doesn't give me much choice.. I am not lion. I am people hear me roar, hear me run away, hear me communicate and understand..
I have noticed there is systematic injustice everywhere.. it could be true that it is more prevalent in some places. I would be surprised but in a good way sorta.. unequal distribution of inequality sounds accurate. was that confusing?! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 8:41am |
| Coolness: 57110 | to add... it ought to be the government's obligation, duty. It ought to be a human right to be able to have one's basic neccessities met at the very least not to mention their higher order needs.
It ought not to be just a priveldge of a particular country or a few. |
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