Category Archives: Sexuality

Flash News: ‘No-panty’ Yana shows India is booming

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

Venkatesan Vembu In the Vanities No one wears panities —- Ogden Nash, Theatrical Reflection In the early 1990s, when the Indian economy was opening up to the world, foreign consumer brands, in the first flush of excitement, came tripping over … Continue reading →

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Writing about sex…

Posted on October 18, 2010 by

Venkatesan Vembu …is, well, like “dancing about architecture” (to borrow a phrase from the superb scriptwriter of the romatic comedy Playing By Heart: you can watch the opening sequence from the film, where a bewitchingly beautiful Angelina Jolie, tossing her … Continue reading →

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Politics of ‘going solo’

Posted on October 16, 2010 by

(This column was published in DNA edition dated October 16, 2010.) Venkatesan Vembu A US comedian once famously jested that American presidents do to the country what they ought to be doing to their wives. In recent times, however, a … Continue reading →

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The sexual revolution in small-town India

Posted on March 3, 2010 by

(This column was published in DNA edition dated March 3, 2010.) Venkatesan Vembu I don’t normally consider letters I receive in response to my fortnightly editorial exertions here as a barometer of anything other than the momentary agitated state of … Continue reading →

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The Diva of Twitter

Posted on July 31, 2009 by

(This column was published in DNA edition dated July 31, 2009.) Venkatesan Vembu Some years ago, during a particularly slow-paced ‘silly season’ newsday, the editorial board meeting of a publication that I shall not name was seized of a momentous … Continue reading →

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SOS: Save Our Savita (Bhabhi)

Posted on July 3, 2009 by

(This column, about an Indian cartoon-porn site that was blocked by the Indian government, was published in DNA edition dated July 3, 2009.) Venkatesan Vembu In a recent episode from the enormously popular Savita Bhabhi cartoon porn series, the services … Continue reading →

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