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Cyrus Broacha
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 23:59 IST
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As Humanitarian Institutions go, the Shri Ram Sene is ranked just below the LeT in their sterling efforts in beating and molesting young girls and then being promptly garlanded and felicitated for their efforts. These wonderful pursuite young men make India proud and are a wonderful advert to encourage foreign tourists to embrace and visit our culture of abuse, assault and molestation. After all, somebody has to stand up lest these erstwhile qualities be lost to our great culture and society forever.

However let me tell you on good authority, whom I have never met, that entry into the Shri Ram Sene is very difficult. Not just anyone or everyone can get in. Someone like Dr. Amartya Sen for all his fame and renown would be rejected immediately.
There are three components that a new entrant must possess; a) He must be able to hit and hurt things physically weaker than himself likefour-year old children, squirrels, and/or soft toys b) He should be able to remember and recite three word slogans and scream them aloud at short notice. The slogans vary from the scattered 'kill all women' to the more poetic 'smash their heads' to the archaic 'God save the Queen'. By the way the latter is no longer in use post- 1947 in India, though in same-sex right-to-love demonstrations this phrase is being kept alive.

Thirdly a new recruit must possess his own orange sash. The sash must be ready to wash and wear. And no matter what detergent is used the sash's orange colour mustn't run. Recruits must remember that due to the economic recession, orange sashes are hard to come by and so the recruit must get his own orange sash, as none will be provided to him. Finally whilst engaged in battle bashing four-year olds, or punching old women, no matter how grave the danger, the recruit should never let his beloved sash fall to the floor.

More power to Shri Ram Sene , and what a pity the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan awards have already been announced.

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