Time & Social Trend

our promiscuous and liberal social trend among young people apparently need social acceptance to prevent obscene display of emotion in public. Recently, in a city cyber café one college going boy and girl were surfing the net; the owner suddenly discovered that student couple have closed the door of small room while trawling the net and instructed them to keep open the door as per their norm; they complied drawing a big face. Other people smirked at the couple for their audacity to seek privacy in a public place. That apart, again, if you visit Ekamra Kanan in the morning or in the evening you would find couple in different degree of intimacy which some times become very embarrassing for a visitor with family and small kids who frequently ask inconvenient question about acrobatics shown by young couples that is difficult to justify in a public place. After all, Bhubaneswar is not as boxed in as Mumbai or other metros. Two decades earlier you won’t have noticed such a spectacle in the city. I would not venture into a value judgment but would like to hold a mirror before the changes happening on our social trend. What has made people in the city so progressive? Is it because of the demonstration effect of contents carried on string of cable channel or advent of mushrooming of co-ed technical institutes or else, people are really missing privacy in their homes?