More than hundred kids came together a few days back at a farmhouse near the famous big banyan tree between Bengaluru and Maisuru. They were students and young professionals, many of them foreigners. It was a rave party, I guess. "Rave" here seems to mean something sinister, higly illegal and against everything official parties deem sacred. So the reaction of authorities was equal to the crime. The farm was raided, kids arrested and taken to jail.

It's been on the news for a few days. Alcohol was recovered on location. Alcohol, my god! The youth has really gone to the dark side. No drugs have been found nor nothing that would hint to their existence. Just alcohol. This is a grave sin, made worse by the fact that there was no license to sell the stuff. Knowing the bureaucracy, the highly indecent incident would have been stopped if only they would have applied for the license. Because they would still be lining up at the counters with the paperwork in one hand and bribes in the other.

Now OK, parties get stopped all over the world. However, these kids were thrown into a nice indian jail. Most of them spent several nights in there, some of them are still in. They spent a day without drink and food. There were no toilets, so let's hope they didn't have beer, but something less of a diuretic hard liquor. And anyway there were adjacent cells where they could relieve themselves between metal bars of their own abode.

One girl has an asthma. She was unconscious for most of her experience and was eventually wheeled out to an ambulance.  I guess she made the bail...

The bail, incidentally, was set to 3000 rupees. On top of that there was 2000 rupee legal fee. 5000 rupees is a lot of money for average youth in India. But coughing up the money didn't help very fast, since the next day happened to be a holiday and no officials needed for release were at work.

What a complete muff-up.

But be that as it may, I must ask if the reportedly understaffed authorities are really focusing on the important things in today's India? There are communal clashes, terrorism, corruption, you name it. Instead of aiming their focus on those, they decided to stop hundred kids dancing to a loud music somewhere miles from nearest recidential area. Hmm...

As  for the alcohol, it is not even denied that during the ongoing central government election campaign votes are bought and sold with liquor. But I guess that's OK, since it's part of established democratic process.