Innovation and Civil Resistance Campaign - A Case study

It indeed was very humorous and probably a fitting reply to the outrageous incident of Mangalore induced by 'Shri Ram sene'.

Civil social resistance is slowly taking on new hue and colour. A lot of it inspired by some bollywood flicks like 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai' etc. Civil resistance to what happened in the pub in Mangalore and what followed later in various parts of country, had different scales and methods. But what got to the imagination of people, media glare was the 'Pink Chaddi' program.

At one level it did have the 'vent' for anger which all of us felt, at the complete intolerance on the behalf of the self styled outfits like Shri-Ram Sena.

In one of the key observations i read where the author rightly pointed out 'It would be wrong to name these outfits 'moral police', because it gives them a self-legitimacy.

Moral-policing does happen across the cross section of our social system, from our families to the community scale, but most of it is subconscious on part of both the party's, the 'perpetrator' and the 'perpetrated'. The Moral-policing in India is rampant, and it has gotten under our skin to such a extent that even while we are practicing it right-left and center, we are completely unaware that we are actually doing it.

Pink Chaddi campaign is not a very ideal start for an innovative social resistance campaign against self-styled outfits like Shri-Ram Sena, or for that matter all too conservative 'Muslim Law board'.

Innovation in the methods, processes and programs that will stand against all that is 'Unjust', Unfair and exploitative-in-nature is the need of the day. I will not consider Pink-Chaddi campaign as an 'Innovation', but a 'reaction' to the outrage felt, but it can certainly prove to be a precursor to the innovations in the civil resistance programs that would and should take place in the urban segments, lead appropriately by the young brigade.