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Blueline menace, and panic response in Delhi

I have been in New Delhi only for around 8 months. But you don’t need to be a Delhi resident to know about the Blueline menace. Years before I even considered moving to Delhi, I had heard about the Redline buses – accident prone and aggressive, flouting every rule of the road. They were later [...]

Sex education and the Indian media – daal mein kuch kala hain

I have been ambivalent about the role of sex education in schools; and so far I have not seen convincing arguments from either side of the divide. Generally, the Indian English media is biased in favour of sex education in schools, I think. There is really no overt support to it; but just that the [...]

Hillary’s cleavage, Sania’s skirt – and an appropriate response

A lot many people are obsessed about how much leg is seen when Sania Mirza plays. No matter a decade or more back, the famous Debonair magazine used to carry double page spreads of female tennis stars bottoms with their skirts flying high, and challenged India’s readers to identify with posterior to which sexy star.The [...]