Hyderabad, June 10 -- In Hyderabad, men dancing to marfa and showering money on each other at weddings is a celebrated tradition. Women attending a private qawwali night on May 30, it turns out, is a symbol of moral collapse.

The ladies-only event, not much different from a wedding function or a college event, has become the subject of widespread condemnation on social media, and almost entirely from men. Religion has been invoked to justify the outrage, and once again, it is the woman's job to set an example for good behaviour, while men straying from the path is simply human nature.

What is even more concerning is that the criticism did not stop with moral policing, but allegedly took shape into a campaign to take down a budding event...