Value of Life? A pub goer in mangalore VS cyclist at bangalore

 I am just watching a debate on ban on the pub on Times Now.  Some states in India have already banned PUB and some other are planning to ban it. Recently activist of Ram Sena are arrested for beating up some girls at Mangalore pub. I strongly condemn the violence. Violence at any form is not acceptable.

   Our media was busy in showing how inhuman we are.  Why should not we ban pub and allow people to go and drink. A woman has equal rights to drink as man. Even the anchor told Rig Veda has 16 verses about sura pana. One of the participants was telling how ban on drinking is equivalent to ban on education. Media must be forward thinking and is concerned about the people who want to drink and dance whole night. Let us look at what their contribution towards our society is.

 Last week a drunken driver killed 4 cyclists while driving his car in Bangalore. He may get 7 years jail for drunken driving.  Last week Bangalore police fined 30000 drivers for drunken driving in the late night and one third of them are women.  And the story goes on.

 In our village, I have seen people who have lost everything they possess to alcohol.  I have seen lots of domestic violence under the influence of alcohol.

What is the solution? Ram Sena way is a big no. We don’t need to think hard. Look at Gandhiji. Do picketing against alcohol in peaceful way. Adult people have the rights to drink and others have the right to do picketing.

    I have a question is the life of the cyclist cost less than abusing the girls? Who cares for the cyclists? What about the life of families where somebody spends money on alcohol without the basic minimum requirement of his family? Probable media thinks so. They have reported about the death of four people in some page which is not searchable and runs fronts pages for days about mangalore pub attack.