The Young India

Siddharth Kurian

Of recent, when famed woman’s lib author/thinker Germaine Greer was asked to comment on the issue of children being sexualized, she began by panning the Barbie doll saying that the doll itself is a fetish and that it is a descendant of a sex toy. And in the same breath implied that fathers too belonged to the same coterie of wanton sexualizers and did so by helping their daughters learn how to "flirt" just by asking them to "kiss daddy goodnight".

I find …

Kartikey Sehgal

[Modern Society.]

Outside the bathroom, Mother 1 knocks

Mother: Son, I want you to come out, now!

Son 1: Yes mom, just after I take this bath.

Mother 1: Good.

In the Living Room

Son 1: Here Mom, I have come out. What is it.

Mother 1: No son. I want you to come out.

Son 1: I am out now mom.

Mother 1 : No son. Come out. Come out. To come out… tell me that …

Kartikey Sehgal

Women’s interest in cricket is a sudden development, propelled mostly by the advertisements projecting cricketers as demigods. In the year 2003, model and actress Mandira Bedi became popular for hosting a cricket-discussion program during the World Cup cricket matches.

Her immense popularity had little to do with her knowledge about cricket and more with the plunging necklines of her saris and the unavoidable amount of cleavage on exhibit.

Kartikey Sehgal


[Fiction]

“Oh, you know him not!”

I said to my friend while walking along a peaceful country road. He is a patient of chronic back-ache and today was especially a troublesome day for him.

“Why is he blue? Because he is conscious of having brown skin like Indian men.”

My friend was aghast. He said that the colour blue was only symbolic and that nobody would bother if you drew him brown or black. He also urged me to come back to my senses.

Kartikey Sehgal
The Pope has stated that he wants to save humanity from ‘gay threat’. According to him, humankind deserves the same attention as the dying tropical rain forests.

It is common knowledge that the biggest threat to rain forests is ‘mankind’ or humans. And the church has maintained that one of the biggest threats to mankind is the homosexual. Thereby, the church has always kept homosexuality out of the realm of normal sexual behavior. Never mind that it has always existed and that the church is among its secretive followers.

Kartikey Sehgal
Shows like Dadagiri make me wonder why nudity is banned in Indian cinema halls.

The image of a naked woman clasping a naked man under a satin sheet of a colour opposite to that of the bodies is less likely to make you violent than the image of a television crew member asking a contestant to get his sister so that he can rape her.

The host of this show is a skimpily clad girl with a whip in her hand who fights with one of the contestants and they talk in obscenities. The girl slaps the contestant and he slaps her back. This irks ‘the man’, the archetype of the modern muscular youth, whose latent sexuality is awakened by the slaps and who decides to express his self in generous physical and verbal abuses.