http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23286/pink-chaddi-campaign http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23286/pink-chaddi-campaign#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:36:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23286 Fed up with moral policing by radical Hindu groups who had attacked women in pubs and targeted unmarried couples celebrating Valentine's Day, a group of women decided to fight back – with pink knickers.

The result was a remarkably successful dirty dissent. Not only did 40,000 items of rose-tinted underwear, much of it apparently unwashed, end up flooding the offices of the Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army), the non-violent act defused much of the tension surrounding the acts of vigilantism by self-appointed guardians of "Indian culture". [video]]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23286/pink-chaddi-campaign/feed 0