Raas-lila row: Prashant Bhushan's comments and impiety of the 'pious'

Lawyer Prashant Bhusan had compared UP's anti-Romeo squads with Lord Krishna's Raas-Lila

These days, the stars up in heaven seem determined to make trouble by creating perverse controversies. Otherwise, there is no earthly explanation for the wrath that fell on well-known lawyer and human rights advocate Prashant Bhushan when he commented on the Uttar Pradesh government’s move to form anti-Romeo squads and drew similarities between the Romeos of today and the god Krishna, who, as all know, enjoyed the company of gopikas.

The problem is that while there is a great deal of talk in the political arena about what is and what is not religiously acceptable, the anger on display is