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Valentine's Day, the Indian way

Special Correspondent

AHMEDABAD: Even though the "moral police" of the Sangh Parivar did not interfere, Valentine's Day was celebrated in different parts of Gujarat on Wednesday differently from the Western way.

Fine arts students of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Vadodara, organised a four-hour programme of Indian love songs and Indian classical dances on the theme "love." Students of the arts faculty of the university visited old-age homes and presented roses and sweets to the aged, who are deprived of love from their children and near and dear ones.

As a mark of protest against celebrating the day in a western way, some students of the Morvi engineering college donated blood to "save the lives of someone's near and dear ones."

This was the "true way to celebrate Valentine's Day rather than presenting a rose to your loved one," a student leader said.

Unlike in the last few years, the Sangh Parivar this year did not make Valentine's Day celebrations an issue for the "moral safeguard" of the youth.

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