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Mon 02 Feb 2009Hindu extremists not in love with Valentine's Day vent their ire on courting couples
VALENTINE’S DAY across India was marked by unrest unleashed by Hindu extremists who attacked young couples and humiliated them publicly as they deemed the festival western and decadent.
A brother and sister mistaken for a dating couple were beaten up by a mob in central Madhya Pradesh state. And six people were arrested in the northern city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal – the monument to love built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan in memory of his beloved wife – for shaving the heads of overtly romantic youngsters in a nearby park.
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