I Am Mumbai Curious (Saffron, White and Green)
... In this highly conservative society, sex is enjoyed - witness the 1.2 billion population - but any discussion of it is regarded as obscene.
... Today India has numerous sex experts but Watsa was in the vanguard, talking openly about the subject in magazines and newspapers at a time when Bollywood films used to cut away from a couple about to kiss and show shots of bees and flowers instead, so prudish were attitudes towards public displays of intimacy.
... On television recently, censors bleeped out the word "period", even though it was being used by a schoolgirl talking about a class, or lesson.
... Watsa has had tomatoes thrown at him and he has been accused of being a pornographer.
... In terms of his writing style, Watsa could teach many journalists a thing or two about economy of expression, as the following examples demonstrate:
Let's talk about sex
For decades, octogenarian Dr Mahinder Watsa has been ruffling the feathers - and bed sheets - of Mumbai with his open and candid approach to copulation, writes Amrit Dhillon
... In this highly conservative society, sex is enjoyed - witness the 1.2 billion population - but any discussion of it is regarded as obscene.
... Today India has numerous sex experts but Watsa was in the vanguard, talking openly about the subject in magazines and newspapers at a time when Bollywood films used to cut away from a couple about to kiss and show shots of bees and flowers instead, so prudish were attitudes towards public displays of intimacy.
... On television recently, censors bleeped out the word "period", even though it was being used by a schoolgirl talking about a class, or lesson.
... According to [a popular] myth, each time semen is "wasted", the body and mind are made weaker, and the former is deprived of a "life force"; whereas well-preserved semen produces male children ... Any number of Hindu websites contains articles that state it takes 80 drops of blood to produce a single drop of semen.
The even stranger side to this irrational obsession is that when it comes to other bodily fluids, Hindus are obsessed with ejecting them from their bodies, which explains the noisy hawking, spitting and preoccupation with metronome-like bowel movements much in evidence across India.... Watsa has had tomatoes thrown at him and he has been accused of being a pornographer.
... In terms of his writing style, Watsa could teach many journalists a thing or two about economy of expression, as the following examples demonstrate:
... Q: To stop my girlfriend getting pregnant, I drop some lemon juice and salt onto her vagina after intercourse. Can you tell me if this works?
A: Are you a bhel-puri [a roadside snack] vendor? Where did you get this idea from? Use a condom instead of a condiment.
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