Talk about extremism. There’s a group in India called the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) which has demanded that the Canadian actress of Indian descent Sunny Leone should be deported from India (and it is not the only one making that demand, some Indian women too are harping the same tune). The group has even lodged an FIR against her. The reason that the HJS has given for it is that the actress is spreading ‘vulgarity’ on her website, insulting ‘the dignity of women’. Not just that, the HJS is perturbed about the fact that Sunny L’s popularity on the Internet eclipses their Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s, and by quite a big margin.

So, if Modi gets his nose ahead in the popularity race, the group will have no issues with the actress? And women’s dignity will be restored? Come on, grow up people.

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, May 24th, 2015

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