We'd much rather cavort withour types; on our channels. We're swadeshis, you see. We gave the world the kamasutra. So it's we who 'urge' on Vatsyayana and not get colonialists to do thesame. Simple logistics, even if it smacks of hypocrisy.

To matters more banal, the I& B ministry exercised its powers under Section 20 of the Cable TelevisionNetwork Regulation Act, 1995, to ban transmission of FTV.

The two-month ban followsclose on the heels of a temporary ban of AXN. Justifying the move, a ministryofficial said, the government had earlier warned the channel on earlieroccasions for showing raunchy footage but it appears that it did not have muchimpact on the channel. The ministry makes a clean breast of its intentions.

Even as we 'flesh' out thetruth and get under the 'skin' of the ministry and its self-righteous moralpolicing, the man on the street needs no thought control.

The hypocrisy isevident when he says, "While the portrait of a nude is called exploitation andworse blasphemy, the same by a Picasso is art in abstraction."The parting shotcomes from a software professional, Kunal Sharma.

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