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Are we hypocrites as a nation to call Ranveer Singh out on some perfect-
ly aesthetic nude photos, asks Vickram Sethi
A lady calls the police station and says some of these sections are so vague and so
there’s a nude man in the opposite building vast that any word, gesture or act can insult
and it’s causing her a lot of “mental the modesty of a woman. The law needs to
disturbances”. The police officer comes clearly define what construes the modesty
to her house and she takes him into the or immodesty of a woman.
kitchen and says stand on this stool and I spoke to 10 young girls, the oldest being
now look through the telescope on the 50, who did not find the photographs
third building. Such is the gist of Vedika offensive. The general response was that
Chaubey’s letter to the Chembur police he has a good-looking body and what is
station complaining about the nude wrong if he has posted such pictures. And
photograph of the actor Ranveer Singh. She yet one of the girls added that if men can
also goes on to say that she was amused to enjoy titillation by looking at women’s
see his nude photographs on his personal photographs, why can’t women enjoy male
Instagram and Twitter account. According nudity. What is sauce for the goose is also
to her, this was a method of earning sauce for the gander. The male genitalia
money by damaging the culture and is not among god’s beautiful creations.
traditions of India. Yet another complaint Irrespective of its importance in evolution.
filed by Ashish Rai, an advocate, to the Today, anybody can file a complaint about
Maharashtra State Commission of Women anything. In 1954, the late Akbar Padamsee
states: “Ranveer Singh’s picture offends the was arrested for a nude painting where a
dignity of women and small children.” And man was holding on to a woman’s breast.
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