Recently the government of India came up with a novel solution to prevent bowel corruption. It simply went ahead and banned prawns. Banning is easier than catching misuse and setting up a legal framework. After all the easiest things that a government can do is banning. In fact it was a court order - but since the government earlier attempted similar trick and failed, it can be surmised that it is simply hiding behind the court. But the problem with prawns is that it is liked by everyone - except the followers of Sri Sri Nityananda (the discoverer of E=MC and sum of multiple infinities) who said - "non veg corrupts the brain".
Overconsumption of even good things (like alcohol) can lead to disastrous results. So can prawns, err maybe. The court came up with the order that prawns affects male libido and heinous crimes can be done after its consumption and therefore it should be banned. I am surprised we are still living with broken roads and corruption which was not deemed fit enough to be banned. Coming back to the topic, the other reason given was there were too many child prawns in the prawns that are consumed. Well that is definitely a problem. The best way is to only ban child prawns. Put a filer. Or unleash the Mumbai police that catches poor Bihari street vendors but is a spectator to the hooliganism of Shiv Sena. What 56 inches chest I must say.
The first one to comply with the order were the governments' favourite people - Mr Khambani. Mr. Khambani launched company that would supply 1 KG prawns everyday on its sales network for just 300 Rs a month. In retrospect they were the ones who were responsible for this addiction in the first place. But anyway by banning prawns in their sales network they now freed away lot of space to sell something else. Most of the people now feel cheated. It is like that have a pack of condoms but having sex is illegal. It is of no use at all, except maybe, you'd like to use it as a balloon on your birthday. But then be prepared to explain to the kids who care, the theory behind the protrusion on it.
Once something is liked by most people, they figure out a way to circumvent the process. There were people who had paid the prawn suppliers and cooks in advance using their credit cards online. They lost a good amount of money. The money they could have used to buy something more "satvik" like say cow dung for cooking. Lot of prawn vendors immediately came to the rescue. They simply renamed their prawn shop - like prawns2.shop instead of prawns.shop. Now this is novel and quite innovative.
Our country was earlier known for artistic prawns. In fact there is a very famous cookbook on it called - Prawnsutra. It tells you how to consume prawns in various yogic positions. There are temples dedicated to this in many parts of India. It is a pity that now people will have to consume them hiding inside their homes. You can still send prawn recipes in Whatsapp though. You can use torrents to download recipes too. The government will find it hard to ban each and everything, and will eventually give it up. And for those temples that have prawns engraved on them - I guess they have already ordered saffron curtains to cover them up.