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The comments made by me are purely of individual nature & if found similar to someone else's comments is purely coincidental.

I am sure that St.Valentine would have loved to apply for Indian citizenship because this is the country where he is given the most visibility & fame on the 14th of February every year.The day is celebrated across the world where people spend the day with their loved ones exchanging not ony gifts like roses & chocolates but also promises & precious moments.The person living in any other part of the globe would react by saying"big deal....we all know this"but i would like to request that person to spend 14th Feb next year in India where one can see political parties & some NGO's giving gyan to the media as to how this 'one day' is killing the Indian culture & as to how the youth of this country is taking unfair advantage of this day by encouraging physical intimacy in the name of love.

I would like to identify two characters who are contributing to this melodrama where a simple day is being transformed into a national emergency.The most notorious character is the political parties who use the petty party activists ( who have no other better work anyways) to ransack shops selling Valentine's Day gifts/greeting cards & the other character is the media ( especially TV) who actually invites political activists & NGO activists to get their comments as to why are they against the celebrations of Valentine's Day.

I happened to watch one of those talk shows on a newly launched TV channel ( read TRP hungry) on the eve of Valentine's Day where one political activist & one NGO activist had their own perspectives but both concluded with the same view " Ban Valentine's Day in India & Save the Indian youth & its culture". The reason cited by the political activist was that the only objective of the youth to celebrate this day was to enjoy sex, as if, after 14th Feb the entire youth of the country goes into hibernation from its sexual activities.

As a youth of the country , i would request the political class & the social activists to spend their time,energies & vocal chords to fight issues like poverty,malnutrition of children,unemployment of the deserving youth,safety of women (which is worse in metros...leave alone smaller cities & towns) & millions of such serious issues which are becoming huge obstacles from India emerging as a truly developed nation,both economically & socially.Also the media should definitely sell news for their TRP & profits but what worries me is the amount of time the media spends in selling news that is not helping our country to be a better place to live & work.

As an Indian youth, i would like to see the political fraternity of this country working towards the development of the country with honest intentions & i am sure that this will automatically win the minds & hearts of the youth & gain respect for our politicians. As far as Valentine's Day is concerned, the youth will continue to buy & gift roses & chocolates because we as a youth do not think that displaying love & affection to your loved ones will anyhow hurt the Indian culture because we too carry the responsibility of the strong Indian tradition that is running in our blood, we think that some people should realise it....now !!!