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The youth of Mangalore are all set to paint the city pink this week undeterred by diktats of fundamental right-wing groups against celebrating Valentine’s Day.

It’s been four years since Sri Rama Sene unleashed violence on youngsters at a pub ahead of Valentine’s Day in 2009, launching moral vigilantism. Following this, a group of young women launched the ‘pink chaddi’ campaign against the right wing activists.

In the subsequent years, Valentine’s Day celebrations in the city were mostly muted with youngsters feeling unsafe to even go out together. But everything is all set to change this year, with many youngsters determined to celebrate Valentine’s Day, come what may.

Raj and Rashmi, students of a medical college, said, “We and a few friends from different medical and engineering colleges plan to go around the city on motorcycles on Friday morning, then hit the local pub in the afternoon and go to the beach carrying the heart shaped balloons in the evening.”

Things have certainly changed in the city, say Soni Narang and Lalith, students of hotel management school. “We find the situation much improved this year as the right wing activists have assure us that they will not indulge in violence,” they said.

Asked to comment on the celebrations, Ramesh Nayak of the Hindu Janajagruti Samithi said, “Even the Roman Catholic church has removed the Valentine’s Day from its religious calendar as the Church had found no valid proof for a person called Valentine.”
 

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