Richard Gere's Kiss: Protestors Outraged and Burning Effigies

[DaveC426913]

The one I saw on TV wasn't like what you described.
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Anyway, there's a bigger issue I'm trying to highlight in this thread...

Yes, well let's first make sure the issues are based on the facts.

 

[siddharth]

Yes, well let's first make sure the issues are based on the facts.

Just to clarify, I did see the whole incident on TV, and the incident didn't seem to occur as you described it. So, I think there's some miscommunication here

 

[lunarmansion]

By the way, did you know that kissing occurs first in the Punjab around the time Alexander came to India? Ironic how the Hindus among whom kissing occurs for the first time in known literature have made public displays of it an obscenity- the result, in my opinion, of the hundred years of conservative Islamic rule and then the British( who were prudish back then if not now) which altered the sensibilities of the Hindus in this respect which is quite unfortunate. For their original culture was never prudish like that of Jews or Muslims in terms of covering women etc., etc- one just has to read their literature and history to see this.
But then again modern India is a result of the mixtures of various peoples and invasions from the Huns, Scythians, the Greeks, the Mongols, the British etc., etc., and although there is some continuity of culture, modern day India different from the "wonder that was ancient India" to quote a famous book on Indian civilization by an Englishman, just as modern Greece is quite different from the wonder that was ancient Greece...One cannot compare the two..http://www.tamu.edu/tamunews/News/stories/DailyReports/021306news-8.html

 

[siddharth]

Arrest warrant against Richard Gere; Shilpa summoned

Jaipur, April. 26 (PTI): Observing that their public kiss was "highly sexually erotic", a city court today issued an arrest warrant against Hollywood actor Richard Gere and summoned actress Shilpa Shetty for appearance on May 5.

Dinesh Gupta, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jaipur city, issued the order on a PIL filed by Poonam Chand Bhandari, an advocate-resident here, who complained that their public kiss during an anti-AIDS awareness programme in Delhi was an "indecent representation" of sexual activities in a public place.

..."Therefore, she is an accused under Section 294 of the Indian Penal Code," it observed. It directed the SP (Headquarters), Jaipur, that since Gere was a foreigner and could leave India he should be arrested at the earliest and a warrant served on him.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200704261758.htm

How <insert adjective here> is that? Getting jailed for an exaggerated kiss on the cheek?

If the incident was a part of a movie, it would have probably got a PG-13 rating, at worst.

 

[neutrino]

Highly sexually erotic?

 

[siddharth]

Highly sexually erotic?

The Chief Judicial Magistrate should probably arrest himself for having the audacity to think of "vulgar and corrupting" thoughts. How dare he think like that? Doesn't he know he's corrupting Indian culture with his thoughts ?

 

[Thrice]

They might as well have had sex on the stage.

You're implying there's something wrong with having sex on the stage?

 

[lunarmansion]

Apparently the sad plight of six million women who are forced to earn a living through prostitution in India and who contract AIDS( was it not for AIDS awareness that the actors were there in the first place?) and the human trafficking that occurs there does not seem to
offend the magistrate!

 

[Gokul43201]

In a country where the national pastime is watching soft-porn (Bollywood) and where half of all children have been sexually abused, this is nothing but another display of the favorite national reaction - hypocrisy.