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Here’s How To Not Get Pulled Up Like ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ For ‘Denigrating’ Women On Indian TV

by The Daily Eye Team December 7 2015, 3:03 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 42 secs

Sex is to Indian television, what nuclear warheads are to life on earth. And then it so happened that Grey’s Anatomy dared to showcase an episode on Star World in June this year, which involved a sexual act.
“The complaint was filed over a scene in which one of the characters in the series asks her male colleague to teach her how to satisfy her partner sexually by demonstrating it,” a report on DNA states. The particular scene involved a ‘homosexual encounter’. Not just sex, but gay sex at that! Since, such sins won’t be washed away even if you took a dip in gau mutra cradling your television, the Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) decided to reprimand Star World on your behalf.

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Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!

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