Stone cold elderly eyes watching their prey with hawk like precision, watching for them to falter- a phenomenon once termed as “supervised visits” or “chaperoned meetings”, defunct, lost in an extinct world of etiquette, reservation and mores of conduct.
PDA has traversed a long way, evolved from the sly meeting of eyes of a couple, to the very physical display of affection be it smooching or caressing in public.
The youth brigade seems to be the instigator, the fire starter this revolution of public display of affection, relentlessly seeking out new nooks and crannies to “express themselves”[at times even braving the police batons when society frowns upon them].
PDA has transcended from an activity only young blossoming love-struck couples engage in, its found its place even amongst the married. Today many a couple don’t hesitate to display their affection in front of their in-laws or parents and neither do the older generation feel squeamish or insulted at such displays as they probably would have felt a decade ago.
Maybe PDA in the movies, music videos, ads or hoardings we watch have had a hand in the increasing acceptance toward PDA.
Some might view this changing trend in expression as the western influence, the corroding of the Indian value system, to me the spotting of city walks, promenades, cinema halls, trains or buses with budding love-struck couples isn’t such a bad thing after all. Its better out in the open than having to slink around on the sly …
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