Poli'tricks' - Talibanizing India
Two unrelated headlines caught my attention:
Headline 1: Maharashtra to ban CBSE textbooks on sex education
Headline 2: Govt. bans FTV for showing 'indecent' programmes
Let's look at Story 1:
The Maharashtra Government is going to ban in the state textbooks published by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) containing material teaching sex to school students. (Talibanization evidence 1: Teaching sex to school students - interpretation of our fine 'small town' politicians. And it wasn't me who called them small town mentality politicos, it was our very own stiff mumbai mirror lip TOI.)
The Minister of State for School Education, Hasan Mushrif, announced the ban in the Assembly on Friday when the House debated the Opposition Shiv Sena-BJP's calling attention motion on the Government's move to make sex education compulsory from the standard six onwards from the next academic year. (Talibanization evidence 2: Kids of 6th grade onwards do not need sex education? Does our honorable minister prefer them getting it from 'blue films' and Internet chat rooms?)
The opposition members said amidst noisy scenes that the CBSE books contained obscene photographs and could harm the students who are as young as 12 years. (Talibanization evidence 3: Noisy Scenes? Obscene Photographs of reproductive organs which turned on our honorable venerable (or venereal diseased) ministers? Is this the land of the Kama Sutra? Oh wait, that's Hindu'ism territory, cannot mess with that, but yes, sex education, we don't need any. How else would our politicians parents produced 15 seemingly 'literate' kids if they had been exposed to sex education. Aah it's all clear, our fine politicos want to save the county from bad politicking and continue their race continues without the menace of sex education.)
Mr. Mushrif said that the Maharashtra Government had no plan to introduce sex education in the State. (Talibanization evidence 4: Let the kids learn from experience - our minister calls it 'experiential learning'. Ironically, politicians have been involved in many sex scandals from Kashmir to UP in recent times. Who needs sex education - we have Bollywood.)
Replying to a question, he said that the CBSE books would be banned "on the lines of the action taken by the government against the books by controversial American author, James Laine." (Talibanization evidence 5: I happen to like Shivaji and his level-headedness as a leader. How did a fine shivalingam worshipping people like us connect James Laine's controversial Shivaji book with sex education? I have a feeling Shivaji would be losing his appetite in heaven. He would've liked to be known for his valor, not for banning books and crafting statues around our fine state. Ohh, and the airports, train stations, towns that were renamed - maybe the Shiv Sena should thrash our coalition government for associating shoddy infrastructure with our patron saint. Oh wait, the SS did the renaming.)
The State Government had banned James Laine's books, `Shivaji — Hindu King in Islamic India' and `Epic of Shivaji' for carrying objectionable references and hurting people's sentiments. (Talibanization evidence 6: Oh yes, absolutely, this is just cause to ban an OFFICIAL education board's book on sex education in the country with the second largest population in the world, and the second largest AIDS population. India is truly shining!)
No offence meant to anyone, but who elects these jokers? Why isn't Soniaji (of Italian origin and Rahulji of cambridge-oxford mettle) coming into stop her party's people from committing absolute travesty? Can we ever expect good governance?
Story 2: Apparently, the rumor goes, our honorable ministers wives were worried that the ministers were spending too much time watching Midnight Hot on FTv every night. Unable to compete for attention with the fine european lasses in various states of undress, for the sake of national security, and development, the ministers wives blackmailed their husbands into banning FTV for 2 months. Some say, it was a sordid attempt by a rival failing fashion channel to steal audiences. P.S: The rival channel group's other channel still airs a show post midnight - Bikini Destinations.
Who needs sex education? We can learn from bimbos in bikinis across exotic destinations who drink copious amounts of alcohol.
Another proud moment in liberal India's destiny.
P.S: In a late breaking development, our fine goverment will allow adult programming from 11 pm to 5 am. The amendment to the law would be in the broadcasting bill of the winter session of parliament - lean season for our honorable ministers.
So why did we ban a fashion channel again - for a show that aired at midnight - only to cable tv subscribing audiences - not the aam aadmi?
Who needs sex education. Long live taliban for training our politicians sensibilities.
Ironically, it is not mandatory for a politician to be educated to be elected, and such fine folks define what the literate should be educated in. This is a time for our fine folks in the High court to intervene. Luckily, the judiciary has been keeping the political excesses in check.
