Moral Police Run Riot

Two recent incidents have sharply highlighted how the self-styled moral police are holding Bangalore citizens to ransom.

Two recent incidents have sharply highlighted how, aided by a sympathetic BJP government in the state, the self-styled moral police are holding Bangalore citizens to ransom.

The police didn’t bother to verify Bagga’s claim; they just landed up and forced the cancellation of the event. In the letter, Bagga asked activists to gather outside the venue with eggs, tomatoes and black paint to teach ‘anti-Indians and stone-pelters a lesson’. The organisers had invited artists from Kashmir and Delhi, and the event was scheduled to include a reading from The Collaborator, a novel by Mirza Waheed, and the screening of an animated short film by Sajad Mallik.