{"id":2518,"date":"2005-11-14T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=2518"},"modified":"2005-11-14T12:58:42","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T17:58:42","slug":"home_rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/14\/home_rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Home rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Great Bongmeister chronicles the sexual revolution on Indian cable TV with the fondness of a grandfather sharing his stash of classic Playboys:<\/em>\n\n\n\n
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Sushma Swaraj, Minister of Virtue<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n\n

The cable revolution of the early 90s came as a blessing from heaven (or hell) for the raging hormones of my generation who were henceforth liberated from the oppressive censorship of state-owned television… ladies with Sachin Tendulkar shoulders and Ramesh Krishnan waistlines heaved and thrusted away. As a result, Silk Smitha, Nylon Nalini and the other goddesses of the wet sari pantheon became part of our nightly vocabulary… [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Alas, the uprising was choked nightly by a minister inappositely named Swaraj<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

In the north rose a fell presence, an evil Eye that never slept… minister Sushma Swaraj.. launched a war against flesh tones on the airwaves! Soon she was passing one dictat after another–Star Movies censored all their sugar and spice, Sun TV followed suit… [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

One frustrated victim of fowlstrangulum interruptus commented:<\/p>\n\n

Uff, Sushma Swaraj… how we cursed her… [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

But the sexing up of daily media soon made blue channels and pr0n sites irrelevant:<\/p>\n\n

People stopped going to websites for their porn–instead they started making them themselves armed with… camera phones and webcams. School kids in respectable institutions were shooting their own sex videos<\/a> and marketing them through auction sites… Who would go to Desibaba [a porn site] to watch digitally morphed pictures when people like Tanushree Dutta<\/a> were going topless in songs in reality…

Indians were being sexed up too fast and Desibaba was now a relic of a more innocent bygone era… I would like to believe that Desibaba is still alive–spread out over thousands of hard drives where pictures and stories from it have been downloaded over the years… there is a little bit of Desibaba in each of us–in the memories we carry. [Link<\/a>]<\/blockquote>\n\n

Related posts:<\/span> Delhi sex clip portends sexual revolution?<\/span><\/a>, Baazee.com CEO arrested over sex clip<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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