Indian protest group defends Valentine's Day

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Updated February 13, 2009 21:38:19

In India, a conservative Hindu group is planning to demonstrate against Valentine's Day in India's IT capital, Bangalore. But it's meeting resistance from a group calling itself The Pink Panties, which is organising an unusual counter-protest in defence of the day which many in the West have dedicated to romance.

Presenter: Alana Rosenbaum
Speaker: Shankar Bidari, Commissioner of Police, Karnataka; Pramod Muthalik, founder, Sri Ram Sene; Karishma Upadhyay, spokesperson, Pink Panties; K.R. Sreenivas, Editor, Bangalore Mirror

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