Sunday, April 01, 2007

Yes to Sex Education to primary Kids in India, No to Fashion-TV for adults???

In yet another series of “how consistent we Indians are” in fields other than cricket, I found it really ridiculous when or our IB minister, Mr. Priyaranjan Das Munshi, took the stance very well known in Indian politics, “Save India”. This time from the “onslaught” of Fashion TV on our kids and young. And just a few ago, our government was gung ho about introducing sex education to primary kids in our country. Amazingly, the sex education for the “young” was “indispensable” and the shows for “adult” were “lewd and obscene”.

I am sure if tomorrow there is a international concert on
Kama sutra, I think there would be a bee line of our ministers queuing to get an international appearance and describing India as “the land where Sex is a science” or what ever crap they come up with.
  • If Fashion- TV is nudity why showcase Ajanta- ellora for the Incredible India campaign?
  • If sexuality is something the adults of our country are not ready to digest, then why sex education for kids in India?

If the government is serious about saving the young generation from obscenity,

  • first thing to do would be review your censor directives or directors, since either of them is certainly a failure.
  • Secondly, rather than imparting sex education to children of this nation, teach them how important it is in life to have personal and social integrity intact.

But may be all this is not what our government actually desires to achieve. As double standards galore, I am not surprised now why most of the youth in india considers political state of our country as irreparable and wants to move out to lands where logic and culture can coexist. While i agree that channels like Fashion TV do no good to youth of this country, and there is no real "harm" as such to ban such channels which can corrupt minds and brains of indian youth, the only "logical change" i see in it is to measure everything under the same yard stick. We as a democracy cannot afford moral policing, and should allow a free and fair life style to our citizens, we also would respect if the goverment decides to censor contents of our movies, soaps(serials as we call it) , advertisements, and drop the idea of sex education to primary school kids in india."Free, Fair and certainly Indian" might just be the keywords which might change a lot of things.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

rather than imparting sex education to children of this nation, teach them how important it is in life to have personal and social integrity intact. Well said, Bhupen...Im Agree with you..