My response to Sagarika Ghose's "Ishq ishq ishq: Love can build a new social contract"
Find her original article here : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/bloody-mary/ishq-ishq-ishq-love-can-build-a-new-social-contract To find her original tweet, type "The war against #lovejihaad”. Why cultural traditionalists are terrified of love and it’s subversive power to smash religious and caste barriers." to the Twitter search bar and press "search". Before I even begin to criticize what's wrong with the content of her article, I can't help but criticize what's wrong with the content of her related tweet itself. Cultural traditionalists aren't afraid of love. In fact, love has been a tradition of the Indic culture since time immemorial. A woman is loved as a baby, as a daughter, as a sister, and later, as a wife, and further later on, as a mother. In every stage of her life, there are men around her to love her, protect her and take care of her in every stage of her life. It was a society in which a woman could choose what she wante