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is there a limit to moral policing ?.
In Chennai, for the past three days, in the deccan chronicle, we have been reading that all night parties that are being conducted in the farm houses around the east coast road, have been subject to raids from the police.
These parties are being conducted with prior permission from the police department and are mostly attended by the techies who work in the various information technology companies.
These are attended by both men and women and are becoming an easy target for the police to make money. These police guys, conduct raids, confiscate foreign liquor, and photograph the people using the cameras on their mobile phones. Some pictures given to local news papers, with news that women have been found drunk in less clothes lolling around the swimming pool and so on.
All this in the name of upholding / protecting the tamil culture.
I was surprised to read this.
The may be times when there are some dirty ugly parties too , but I guess only adults who are old enough to make their own choices attend these parties. I don’t want to dwell on the issues of moral right and wrong.
Why should the police consider themselves protectors of the culture?
Their department is corrupted to the core. May be the one among the most corrupted in the world. Every one takes bribes… from the lowest ranking official to the highest. Personally I have seen a traffic policeman take a bribe from a speeding motorist. power corrupts and absolute powers corrupts absolutely.
Any woman in her right sense would never walk in to the police station to complain about anything. that’s the level of trust we have in the police. Yesterday too in the paper, there was an article where a girl who was taken into custody, was assaulted by the police inspector in charge.
So much for the moral policing ! ! !
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That is so sad to hear that you can't trust your police, but it was interesting to hear that your divorce rate is low. Are there many Christians near you or are the majority Hindu?
hii jewels
india has a majority of hindus. the place where i stay, chennai, has a lot of hindus too. the majority population of my country is hindu.
here too there are a lot of denominations of christians.
u must have heard or read that the caste system was very strong in ancient india, and even today, to some extend it prevails. in the villages it is still strong. even those who converted to christanity follow the caste system, and so the denominations . each caste that converted, followed a denomination. Only at the Pentecostal churches, there are new converts and lesser denominations. There the divide is only the rich and poor.
Our churches don’t have new converts, its those old families that have been Christians for over a number of generations. The new hindu converts are usually pentecosts. And of course some people do convert – mostly the very poor hindus- for the sake of education of their children, where various organizations like compassion.org / compassion India.. give free education to children upto age 18, if they convert and so on. Well that’s all very commercial, in the name of god.
You must be wondering where our/my Christian bit comes in.. well from church we have mission fields in the outskirts and far off villages, run shools for the mentally challenged, old age homes, orphanages and so on.
the state kerala, to which i belong, has the largest christian population in comparison to the other states of india. we guys are called syrian christians . and I am a protestant. We belong to a denomination called mar thoma. we are to have converted to christanity, when st. thomas, the apostle of christ came to india.
do read this...our history
http://nasrani.net/2007/02/13/defining-a-kerala-syrian-christian/
Anooja- I read a lot of that site and also on Wikipedia - it was a real eye opener for me. I never realized there were so many denominations of Christians in India and that they were converted through Thomas the Apostle. Very interesting.
What is your church like on Sunday? Do you have a kind of Orthodox worship?
Happy New Year, Anooja. And you are the second Mar Thoma Christian I know now :) the other one is my colleague at work.
jewels
yes we have an orthodox form of worship
till 100 yrs back, it was in syriac
now its in malayalam or english
there r still a few words used in the worship
we go for the malayalam mass
we have an order of worship.. a book that has the order of worship and so on
orthodox like
we say the nicen creed, reaffirm our faith, the intecessory prayers, the communion, the blessing for the communion and so on
with the sermon, our worship takes about 2 hours
which church do u go to
pearlie
thank u
Hi Anooja-
We belong to the Christian Reformed Church which is also protestant and now are part of a church plant (new church) downtown where we see people of various backgrounds every week. I went to a Greek Orthodox church with my daughter last year and thought it was very interesting.
Lovely post and interesting comments! I got to know a lot of information :-)
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