Valentine day is more dangerous to our culture than inane birthday cake cutting and revellery on 31 st December .
Our biggest strength is our family system . We give a totally functional marriage in rights and duties of every family member are well defined by traditions . Astrology , an empirical science provides for compatibility . Fidelity provides stability .Women do not try to dominate men but can spin him by so many other feminine privileges they have in sex and love. Love grows with time and woman becomes more secure as she ages .Indian women will lose greatly by spate of failed marriages that accompanies Love Marriages in India .
Valentine day ultimately glorifies pre marital sex and is an anthema to our culture .
Resistance to Valentine Day is growing in West too as can be seen in an article below .
Unlikely allies unite against a holiday
Feb 15th 2014
WHAT do Russia’s Belgorod province and some schools in Florida and Connecticut have in common? They are unlikely recruits to the war on Valentine’s Day. In 2011 the governor of Belgorod banned celebration of the holiday in educational and cultural institutions on the ground that it was inimical to Russian spirituality and morality. Last year two schools in Orange County, Florida, forbade Valentine’s gift-giving, citing such reasons as the need to “maintain instructional focus” and “avoid distraction”. And this year a school in Connecticut wrote to parents to say it would be replacing sweets and parties on February 14th with healthy snacks and academic activities.
This puts them all on the same side as many Muslim countries that have banned the celebration of Valentine’s Day, among them Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan. Saudi Arabia has gone so far as to ban all things red from flowers and gift shops on the day—with little effect other than to create a black market for red roses. Tursunbai Bakir uulu, a member of Kyrgyzstan’s parliament, recently urged his fellow legislators to adopt a ban, too, dubbing Valentine’s Day a “holiday from the devil”.
Originally a Christian feast associated with several martyrs called Valentine, February 14th soon entered folklore as the day when birds chose their mates. In 1400 Charles VI of France picked the date to propose a “High Court of Love”, dedicated to matters of the heart. The passing of love notes became fashionable in England in the 1700s, and in 1797 “The Young Man’s Valentine Writer” was published, formalising a long tradition of telling men how to woo. In 1913 Hallmark produced their first commercial Valentine’s card. In the 1980s the diamond industry followed florists and chocolatiers, who had already marketed Valentine’s Day as a moment to give (or expect) a romantic gift.
What bothers some of Valentine’s Day’s enemies is its Christian, or Western, origins. For others the problem is the incitement to commerciality, lewdness or even unhealthy eating. But their battle is doomed to failure. Valentine’s Day has a conveniently unspecific origin myth. It adds cheer to the post-Christmas slump. It provides an opportunity to give and get, and, for businesses, to profit. Though hardly a platonic holiday, it is the Platonic ideal of one
