The statistics about premarital sex is typical of India. As long as it happens under the carpet and the carpet is nice and clean it is fine.
We blame globalization for most of our ills. It is easy, isn't it ! But we fail to look at our own backyard.
Even so, this is not the first time we are touched by foreign influence. We have been in the past. Our culture adapted to that and has since evolved and it will continue evolving.
Unfortunately the real issue has been swept under the carpet yet again. The issue with AIDS and how to deal with it.
People who are going to do it will do it. The government (and Kushboo in her original interview) is/was just trying to encourage them to do it safely. There is a difference between encouraging out-of-marriage sex and encouraging people who indulge in it to do it safely.
For the record, I am not a fan of out-of-marriage sex and I will not encourage anyone to do it. But if they do it anyway, they should be encouraged to do it safely, so that the rest of the population will not be affected. I can't see anything wrong in that.
Even if it is wrong, there is nothing wrong in me thinking that my view is right and talk/write about it. It would be a shame if the SC bans me from doing so. Thank God for the verdict.
