Moral policing 

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] image source: http://feministsindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/moral-policing-in-kerala-400x225.jpg[/caption] India is infamous for its moral policing. In the name of preserving Indian culture, we are subject to several instances of moral policing. The most common instance is the Valentine's day celebration. Even if two people are meeting to discuss something important on February 14, they will be viewed as a threat to Indian culture (yes, that culture that taught the world the concept of Kamasutra).  And, they are thrown in jail or beaten up. That is not just limited to Valentine's day. We come across so many instances where couples are beaten up or publicly ridiculed simply for holding hands or kissing in public. Wikipedia has stated many examples and the latest ones are: 1.  "A restaurant was attacked in Kozhikode city on 23 October, 2014 because they permitted college students to come in pairs and to have coffee. The attack followed a news bulletin of a Malayalam news channel that raised an allegation that couples were given a lot of privacy in the parking lot of the restaurant. They suspected that people came to the restaurant for holding hands or for kissing." 2. "In July, 2015, a married couple were brutality attacked by a group of moral police (local Communist Party leaders) claiming they were unmarried in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.<http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/cpim-local-leader-arrested-moral-police-attack-journalist-and-husband-32216> Luckily police could arrive in time and the couple were saved from a murderous assault." The government would never ban this, since it cannot function without the leader of moral policing, RSS.