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This is hilarious. Because one doesn't get to hear of this things too often. A group of Bajrang Dal activists, protesting against 'show of indecency' at a Navratri garba festival in Bhopal on October 3 night, were bashed up by the organisers of the programme. The Times of India reported on the incident: [Link] The Bajrang Dal has now threatened that it would not allow the nine-day dance festivities to continue at this garba venue. The violent incident happened at 10.30pm on Friday, when the group of Bajrang Dal activists, armed with sticks, went to protest outside the...

You can't beat this — the Andhra Pradesh government has banned dancing in clubs, bars and pubs to prevent law and order problems. Orchestra and singing accompanied by eating and drinking, however, has been permitted at these places if the managements obtained amusement licences. How amusing. We have been told as much by none other than the home minister of the state, K Jana Reddy. No, he did not convey this to us personally. He chose to announce this in the state Assembly during question hour on Friday. [Link] Reddy said the government had banned dancing though only obscenity...

Now you can be arrested for the way you dance. That's what happened to 41 youngsters, including 11 girls, at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra recently. They were arrested for dancing together in an "obscene" manner. If this thought itself was not obscene, the Press Trust of India (PTI) creed virtually agreed with the contention. Read it in full: [Link] About 41 people including 11 young girls, who were dancing together in an obscene manner at Kala Kendra have been arrested, police said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the Antakshari Kala Kendra on Sholapur Road near Rui...

The controversy over the Madhya Pradesh minister's patronisation of a bunch of dancers from a state's tribal area is still raging on. The Congress is calling the dance vulgar, while BJP leaders are describing the folk dance as a symbol of the Bundelkhand culture. While the dance generally performed by women of the Bedia community on festive occasions includes suggestive moves, it has always been taken as part of the local culture. But as the Indian Express reported: [Link] Finally, someone remembered that back in the early 1990s, the state government had started a campaign...

A minister in Madhya Pradesh is in trouble over some dirty dancing. No, it was not he who did all this dancing. It was some "erotic" dance at a government-sponsored mass wedding of 101 poor girls in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, that has people gunning for him. The man behind this function was state minister for cooperatives, Gopal Bhargava. He had on April 20 invited thousands of people to the gathering, with promises of great celebrations. Here's in brief from what the Times of India reported: [Link] The entertainment turned into a nightmare when brawls erupted no sooner the...