Bihar Couple Bike PDA: 'Indecent' Behaviour Or Reckless Driving, What Deserves Outrage?

Bihar couple bike PDA case: A man and a woman in Bihar riding through a village on their motorbike have attracted massive outrage; reason being the unusual way they were seated. The woman, instead of riding pillion, sat in front on her partner's lap, facing him.

If ever there was a sure-shot recipe for disaster on the road, this was it.

But the young couple's antics seemed to have backfired on the moral front too. Accused of 'indecency' and 'inappropriate' public behaviour, they were pulled up by local villagers. Amid all this, a ">video of them riding the motorbike the way they did was captured and circulated on social media, earning much flak to the biker duo.

The undated video of the unidentified couple has evoked an array of reactions from the online citizenry. While some have expressed agreement with the angry locals, others are pointing out the overtones of moral policing apparent in the case.

Bihar Couple Bike PDA Case Should Call Attention To What's Important: Road Safety

Questions are being raised on social media to the tune of why a young couple that was not causing disruption or disturbance to their surroundings must be lambasted so. What constitutes 'indecency' exactly? Whose standards of morality are we abiding by?

The couple sure did expose their irresponsibility, sitting face-to-face. Because they were atop a moving bike on an open road with other vehicles moving past. What should be of significance to us here: that a young couple was getting intimate or that they could have been heading towards an accident that risked not just their own safety but others' too?

How faulty are our priorities if when presented with a choice between critiquing public affection and road hazards, we go for the former? Not the latter that literally draws a thin line between life and death?

Views expressed are the author's own.