<p>On Thursday night (18 November), police from Thonglor Police Station raided a live painting event organized by the Cross-cultural Foundation (CrCF) at WTF Gallery &amp; Cafe and ordered them to erase the painting claiming that it is &ldquo;insulting.&rdquo;</p>

<p>Bangkok in 2014 must be one of the most infertile laboratories for communication.</p> <p>Any attempt of communication between the polarized sides in a society, for nearly a decade already, has broken down, and seemingly the first and only successful attempt of the two sides to sit down together turned out to be a trick to arrest everybody at the table and put the army in control. Facebook has been the battleground of the two sides and soon became a place where citizens monitored fellow citizens to inform on any suspicious comments/activities.</p>