Information & Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi made AXN go off air. Now he seems to be dish out the same treatment to Fashion TV.
For once, the Congressman and his friend in the Bharatiya Janata Party, Sushma Swaraj, seem to be thinking likewise. Great minds think alike. [Link]
“I have got the highest number of complaints from schools, colleges about Fashion TV operations,” said Dasmunsi, the information and broadcasting minister.
“The kind of things they show, even in school-time, examination-time, daytime, I think that’s not fair. I straightly, plainly tell you, it is time for Fashion TV channel to think of whether they should confine their programme beyond 11 (p.m.),” the minister added.
One wonders why schools and colleges are complaining? Are they so incapable of ensuring that their students do their bit of studying?
Indian cultural values are different from those in Europe and the United States, Dasmunsi said, and this should be respected.
“Freedom of culture and expression should always be honoured but freedom to denigrate the culture, freedom to spoil and compromise the culture, should not be encouraged,” he said.
Nobody is "denigrating" Indian culture here.
“I am a student of literature. I am as liberal in matters of culture, art and other things than any one else. I am second to none. But you see, there should be a limit,” Dasmunsi said.
Dasmunsi seems to be the last person to be liberal here. And talking of literature, one wonders what would be his take on Lady Chatterley's Lover.
