If there’s a Bharatiya Janata Party government in power anywhere in India, you can be sure that the race to protect Indian Culture will follow. Indian Culture at conservative estimates several thousands of years old and by Murli Manohar Joshi’s reckoning some 700,000 years old is extremely vulnerable to attack and can crumble at any second.

As the Shiv Sena demonstrated in Mumbai and Maharashtra and then through like-minded friends across the nation some years ago, Valentine’s Day was a massive threat to Indian culture. It cowered and shivered when confronted with hideous plastic heart-shaped balloons and stuffed teddy bears. I sympathise.