[Reader-list] Savita bhabhi: why did Indian govt. ban her?

[anupam chakravartty]

Dear Javed,

I dont understand the fuss about this website created by Puneet Agarwal. The
damn site is still working. Why is he making these claims? some form of
publicity for this site. It is unfortunate that Agarwal decided to take up
the cause of the quintessential sexually emaciated Bhabhi who actually
beaten up every night by her husband. If Mr Agarwal aspires to become Donald
Trump for India, then we have done it long time back with Vatsayan very
objectively and succintly explaining the sex in indian context. However, the
government ban is superficial, that site is still functional and Agarwal is
minting a lot of money by crying out publicly about this ban.

-anupam


On 7/14/09, Javed <javedmasoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Savita Bhabhi cartoon porn website blocked by Indian security law
>
> Rhys Blakely in Mumbai
>
> With her ample bosom, skimpy sari and mischievous grin, Savita Bhabhi,
> India’s first and only online cartoon porn star, might not look like a
> threat to national security. But the country’s Government has made the
> fictional housewife seductress the first target of new laws, passed
> after last year’s terror attacks on Mumbai, that allow the authorities
> to block dangerous websites.
>
> The Savita Bhabhi site, which features a series of daily cartoon
> strips based on the “sexual adventures of a hot Indian bhabhi”
> (sister-in-law), was created by Puneet Agarwal, 38, a British
> entrepreneur of Indian descent. Before being blocked in India it was
> attracting 60 million visitors a month, about 70 per cent of them from
> India.
>
> The decision to block the site has bemused many onlookers. Despite
> featuring the adventures of a “regular Indian woman who just can’t get
> enough sex” and being managed by an outfit that calls itself the
> Indian Porn Empire, the venture appeared to owe as much to Benny Hill
> as to Hustler. One typically titillating storyline involved a
> travelling lingerie salesman ringing Savita’s doorbell and the
> escapades that followed. (“Can you help me please . . . The hook is
> stuck.”) Some pundits argued that Savita’s adventures drew on a rich
> tradition of Indian erotica, from the Kama Sutra, which dates back
> perhaps two millennia, to a long-established tradition in Indian
> popular culture of flirtation between a man and his elder brother’s
> wife. But above all, as Tehelka, a news weekly, observed, the strip
> appeared to “poke fun at the coy Indian attitude towards sexuality”.
>
> For those in the corridors of power, however, Savita’s promiscuity was
> no laughing matter. Last month the Government ordered internet service
> providers to block the site. To do so it evoked section 67 of the
> Information Technology Act. The law allows the Government to ban
> websites that threaten “the sovereignty or integrity of India, defence
> and security of the state” or that endanger “friendly relations with
> foreign states”.
>
> India’s decision to blacklist Savita while continuing to allow
> unfettered access to traditional hardcore pornography sites has drawn
> ridicule from experts in cyberspace law.
>
> Sevanti Ninan, a journalist who runs thehoot.org, a media commentary
> site, said: “Our relationships with foreign states couldn’t be
> friendlier since she went online.”
>
> Campaigners for Savita’s reinstatement hope to use India’s
> freedomof-information laws to uncover who demanded that the site be
> blacklisted.
>
> Others have sought solace in the failure of other countries to police
> the web. The columnist Venkatesan Vembu said: “The government ban is
> about as impotent as Savita Bhabhi’s workaholic, sexually clueless
> husband, and as her growing legion of fans has discovered, there are
> ways of getting around the ban by using proxy, anonymiser websites
> that cover your tracks.”
>
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6683611.ece
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