Thumbs up for pink chaddis
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In less than a week from zero to 19,000 plus. That's how strongly the Pink Chaddi Campaign has grown. Humour has trumped high-handed moral posturing. The protesters are delighted with the success and Mutalik's response to send pink saris in return `with love'. The point that Mutaliks of the world should use "non-violent methods to get his point across," has hit the bull's-eye.
The Bangalore collection centre on Infantry Road was so overwhelmed by the response that it had to shut it down and ask people to send the chaddis directly to Sri Rama Sene's office.
"The response has been overwhelming. At the collection centre, there was a lot of chaos with too many people wanting to drop off the gifts. So, we decided that people can send them on their own," says Nitin M, a communications teacher at a Bangalore college, who is coordinating the campaign here. Their blog says "We greatly appreciate this and hope he (Mutalik) continues to choose similar, non-violent methods to get his point across, just as we have chosen to be non-violent and loving in response to the brutality of the attacks on lovers and women in Mangalore and other parts of Karnataka."
"The response has been overwhelming. At the collection centre, there was a lot of chaos with too many people wanting to drop off the gifts. So, we decided that people can send them on their own," says Nitin M, a communications teacher at a Bangalore college, who is coordinating the campaign here. Their blog says "We greatly appreciate this and hope he (Mutalik) continues to choose similar, non-violent methods to get his point across, just as we have chosen to be non-violent and loving in response to the brutality of the attacks on lovers and women in Mangalore and other parts of Karnataka."
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