Is Pub Culture really destroying the fabric of Indian Culture ?

Excuse me, but where does this moral culture really exist, except in
the fantasies of those that the media are hyping up as India's moral
brigade. In the small towns and villages of India ??? Where 10 times
more women are raped and molested, abused, physically assaulted and
mutilated for the mere crime of being a woman or a low caste ! There is
no pub culture there. But there is a huge problem of alcoholism
nevertheless.

Where young men are killed and hanged and young women are killed by
their own families just because they fell in love and wanted to marry
out of their caste. There is no pub culture there.

Alcoholism is a problem. No doubt. But there is more alcohol related
domestic abuse against women in India by their husbands in their own
homes than anywhere else. If any of the supporters of the moral
policing would just care to g to one of the shelters for domestically
abused women, they will know that the real problem with alcohol is not
in the pub culture but at home.

And if India is progressing towards a country where men and women
stand equal in jobs, status and financial independence, where we have
had women as our Prime Ministers, Chief Ministers, and Cabinet
Ministers, then why should men and women be treated as any different ?
If drinking alcohol in a pub is immoral for a woman, they why is it
morally OK for a man ?

I have seen too many families destroyed by alcoholism to be able to
make a stand for excessive drinking. So what should one do ? Ban
alcohol ? Lets get real. the very people who form the moral brigade
will probably not go for that. Corrupt pockets are fed with that. State
coffers rely on taxes on alcohol. And banning alcohol merely drives it
underground, and gives the underworld goons a god sent opportunity to
make money. Tourism collapses.

There must be checks and balances. But the answer is NOT to target
the physically weaker sections of our people. Women. That is not moral
policing. It is sheer cowardice.

And I cannot understand why the Chief Minister of Rajasthan has a
problem with a girl and a boy holding hands ? He does not seem to have
such a problem when the same hand raises itself in violence rather than
affection.

Source: Shekar Kapur Blog