1. Kannada Prabha – which alleged that there was a “Live Band” playing in there. That was their Headline!

2. Prajavani – The article that mentioned the incident stated that the restaurant “Fuga” was running a discotheque.

3. Deccan Herald – The article mentioned that allegations were made by the activists that the discotheque that was running was “against Indian Culture”.

4. Indian Express – This article mentioned the variations of the above including the “live band” and the “discotheque” and the “culture” issue.

Most articles mentioned that there was “Ganja” and “Charas” being served at “Fuga” and how the guests at the club were seen coming out of there with their faces covered!

Now, I was inside! and let me state what I saw and what actually happened.

1. There was no “live band”, there was no band! let me repeat that .. there was NO BAND!

2. NO ONE serves “Charas” and “Ganja” in a club!! Get over it! its not that easy to score drugs even if you want to! Its not sold over the counter!

3. What is this “Culture” that we are trying to safeguard? Is dancing to music such a big crime? Is wearing a skirt a crime? Which part of what happens in a regular club is a crime? And I can vouch that there were very regular things happening! Worse things happen on MG Road on the street and that is even public knowledge! I don’t see anyone going and doing anything about it!

If you read some of the reports, then you will read about how the police went in and checked the place and found NO EVIDENCE of any wrong doing! and I can guarantee that because .. I was in there and I saw it! So doesn’t the press now need to try and get the actual story out? Can’t the management of Fuga or someone sue these chaps for such slander?

Now as a result of this, the group “Hoysala Sene” got its 15 minutes of fame and made a splash in the local press. Congrats boys! you have now arrived! But what was actually proven? What was the point of this? I read that someone from the Hoysala Sene has video evidence of the wrong doing in the club, why not publish that?

I am not a party animal and this was my first time at Fuga and it is a nice place and I really liked the way they handled the whole crisis. But what I don’t get is, first, there are these million rules in place that prevent people from even going out. Next, it is clear that you can just randomly accuse anyone and get away with it! What is happening to my city?

We sat around for a bit with the music shut and then resumed a little later but the dance floor was closed and the volumes suggested the place was more a lounge than a club.

Whatever, so that was all okay with us and we were heading out anyway to her place for the rest of the party when suddenly we were locked in! Supposedly, there was a bunch of people (about 50 of them) with Karnataka flags sitting outside the club on the street and picketing!

This is supposedly a new group that has just started in the city and their name is rumoured to be ‘Hoysala Sene’ (The Hoysala Army). They were there from about 10 PM till midnight and ever increasing in number and were supposedly waiting to ‘oust’ people inside! Some rumours spread to the extent that they wanted to make a point about the dressing sense of the club goers or just trying to be the moral police in this matter.

So for the next 2 hours, we were packed into the club and the doors locked while the picketing gang outside waited for the media to arrive in all its glory! Finally, a little after midnight, members from our extremely responsible media waltzed into the club with their video cameras and their flashlights and for some reason ignored my wide smiling face and went straight for the girls in the club!

It was like they were on some mission to find the girls in the club and put them on their TV News show! And they din’t care about anyone else! This is the best shot of them I could get as I was walking out of the club.

Now what I am asking is, what were the people in the club doing wrong exactly? How is it wrong to go out with friends to a club and dress up while you are at it? Which part of what was happening was illegal? Or was the issue dancing when alcohol was being served? Was that why you were targetting the ladies only? Is this the ‘news’ you want to *CREATE*??

I am waiting to see what tomorrow’s news papers say about this and what the TV channels show this out to be. I was in there and I saw what happened! it was a plain and simple night out in a club which was stopped rather illegally by a picketing gang of people. I want to see the media report this .. and tell me their version!