With how often things seem to turn tense around these events, requiring some kind of permission beforehand doesn't seem like an unreasonable ask for keeping things safe.
With how often things seem to turn tense around these events, requiring some kind of permission beforehand doesn't seem like an unreasonable ask for keeping things safe.
These processions are some of the most meaningful moments of collective faith and joy in our community's entire year, and having to ask permission for something so deeply personal to who we are feels like being treated as a threat instead of a citizen.
Is moral behavior possible without religious belief?
Is caste-based reservation system still necessary in modern India?