Government Slogans I like - "Pub Bharo"

Recently, young women in Mangalore and decent people everywhere were aghast at an incident of moral policing, Taliban style, in Mangalore, Karnataka. Young women enjoying an afternoon with friends were roughed up and assaulted by self-appointed goons claiming to protect public morality. The response has been uneven on the part of the state government, but I like the call to action launched by the Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Renuka Chowdhury. This is in no way a call for a slide into mass alcoholism, rather an assertion that everyone - man and woman - has a right to socialize fearlessly. And this free socializing of men and women is really what angers the goons of the Sri Ram Sena, not the alcohol. Down with the moral police!