There is so much love in the air...(final chapter)

I am neither against love or lovers nor I am a fanatic fuelled by the rhetoric of so called "moral police". I just want to know that why do we need to give a cheap tag to an emotion like love and give people an opportunity to raise their eyebrows. India holds such a rich tradition of love, that it has almost become a synonym to the "Mecca of love". Can we forget the legends like Laila-Majnu, Heer-Ranjha, Sohni-Mahiwal and so on, who trace their origin in Indian sub continent? As far as I recollect, their history never tells us that their love displayed any sort of indecency. In the same country, the situation is, "there is so much love in the air that one feels suffocated". We are bent upon maligning the name of love by our stupid acts. I feel that in recent times, love is losing its significance, innocence, nobility and purity. We are responsible for this decay.If we say that couples indulged in romance have no place to gather and go on with their fulfillment of old promises and make new ones, then we are wrong. Restaurants, fast-food joints and cinema halls in the city offer opportunity to these couples to come and enjoy their rendezvous filled with fun. Moreover college and university campuses, shopping complexes serve the purpose where no one bothers them and nobody is disturbed by their irresponsible behavior. This was just one example. The scene by and large is same in every place in the country. Be it Mumbai or Delhi, Chennai or Kolkatta, Lucknow or Ahemdabad. Can somebody explain to me one single reason, why historical monuments serve as a meeting place for these lovers or how scratching their names on the walls of these monuments help making their love immortal. I sometimes wish the authorities increase the entry fee for the local visitors and impose heavy fines on people found defacing the walls. So those only serious visitors could visit the place. I think we need to learn a thing or two from those foreign tourists, who come every year in a large number to India, about maintaining the decorum of the monumental sites, because they pay greater respect to our historical monument. Anybody is listening.

concluded.