[icernet] Offensive images, offensive realities

[Arul Selvan]

  A fresh controversy has broken out over satellite TV channels carrying 
offensive advertisements. The information and broadcasting ministry has 
threatened once more to use its power to compel cable-operators to drop 
certain channels if they fail to live up to certain standards. It goes 
without saying that ‘offensive’, in this context, almost invariably 
refers to advertisements, mostly for underwear, particularly those which 
show women in suggestive postures. The official view, it is clear, is 
that such images undermine the sanctity of womanhood and excite sexual 
feelings among young people. There is, no doubt, some truth in this; but 
there is also an even greater measure of hypocrisy and denial.

Source:
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=12000