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Valentine's day celebrated
Mahesh Vijapurkar

CULTURAL FASCISM? A young lover being punished by Shiv Sena activists on Valentine's Day in Lucknow on Thursday. The Sena which has assumed the role of the ``thought police'' is vehemently opposed to the celebration of the event which it says, is against Indian culture and tradition. _ PTI

MUMBAI, FEB. 14. The Shiv Sena Supremo, Bal Thackaray's fiat notwithstanding, an overwhelming number of young boys and girls today observed the Valentine's Day today across Maharashtra, except that in most places shops selling greeting cards carrying tender messages or hope remained closed.

Small knots of Shiv Sena cadre were around, making sure in places like Nashik that shops which retailed the Valentine's Day paraphernalia closed down; some tried to do business but had to comply.

More than 50 couples, who completed 50 years of married life, celebrating `Valentine's Day' at Hussain Sagar in Hyderabad on Friday. - PTI

Even smaller towns like Ratnagiri on the Konkan coast, more or less a stronghold of the Sena, unabashedly celebrated the day.

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