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Girls wearing jeans or mini skirts, girls smoking and drinking, Valentine’s day, girls talking to guys have all been of late victims of a growing moral police in India. This self-styled Indian Taliban claim their origins in Hindu culture such as Bajrang Dal and Sri Ram Sena. Their ludicrous motive – to preserve Indian culture!…
OK, I don’t want to die! Suicide, the intentional or voluntary determination to end one’s life, is especially prevalent in India. Southern India is known to have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Thousands of farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have committed suicide recently and the government’s response was extremely lackadaisical….
It is the most popular post on Indiblog, the one on the Gigolos of India. For those yet uninitiated, gigolos are male prostitutes catering to either or both women and men. It has had over 50 comments (even after deleting close to 20) and it keeps getting more. Of course, most of the comments are…
Our Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has had to encourage us Indians to talk about sex, well, safe sex! I wonder if that has happened in any other country, in the West some governments are trying quite hard to wean people away from it! India – the land that gave the world Kamasutra – is now…
I’m sure you must’ve come across all the embarrassing hullabaloo over pre-marital sex, virginity, and six-inch skirts going around in our Press lately. Embarrassing not because of the topic, but the nature of its discussion. It all started when Khushboo said something like there’s nothing wrong in girls having pre-marital sex if it was safe….
Guys – our women have changed! It is a truism that women are always leagues ahead of men in being modern and shedding orthodoxy. This can just be seen from our mother vs. father or grandma vs. grandpa comparisons. But a recent survey in our cities gives results which have even outpaced my predictions! For…
I wrote about the Outlook article on gigolos only two days back, and since then there has been such a steady traffic to Indiblog! People have been searching for “gigolos in India”, “Indian gigolos”, “gigolos Mumbai”, “gigolos in Delhi” and gigolos here and gigolos there… It is quite amusing to see the new-found captivation of…
I have deliberately capitalized Sex and Sexuality to reflect the command the words have not only in Indian society but in the entire world. Homosexuality is illegal in India because of Section 377 asserts: “Whosoever has carnal intercourse voluntarily against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment…
If you read news on the Internet, there is very little chance that you would have missed this article about an Israeli couple being fined for kissing in the middle of their Hindu wedding ceremony. Why, even Christian weddings don’t involve kissing in many countries such as India, Papua New Guinea and many others. It…
I just couldn’t help posting this here. I read it and was so mesmerized by the extremely logical interpretation of the symbolism of the Shiva-Ganesha-Parvati story. You have to read it again and again to understand and admire the beauty of Sanatana Dharma! All praise to our scholarly ancestors who saw so much wisdom in…
Aham: I am – Hinduism
