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

[Anivar Aravind]

An Interesting  Research by Itty Abraham published on The Fishpond

Sex in the Neo-liberal City: On Savita Bhabhi
http://thefishpond.in/itty/2009/on-savita-bhabhi/
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Or are we closer to Ashok, driven by the pressures of an unrelenting
work schedule, who never gets a chance to enjoy the fruits of the new
urban paradise that his labors have helped create? Doomed to
invisibility if he ever gets off the treadmill, his rewards are a
domestic space surrounded by the material signs of achievement — TVs,
fridges, microwaves, sofas. The lack of time he has to enjoy these
pleasure goods is one pathetic symptom of his condition: an even more
perverse situation is that these objects become voyeuristic witnesses
to the infidelities taking place at home, those sexual transgressions
and pleasures which he cannot be privy to. His is a world of
production without consumption, singularly lacking in pleasure, made
worse by the infidelities of his wife. Ashok is further made an object
of ridicule by Savita’s double entendres and unspoken comments (to
which readers are privy), which make him — pathetic, humiliated,
ignorant, silent, absent — a peculiar, altogether spectral, symbol of
our times. Necessary but not sufficient Ashok is the other side of
this neo-liberal dream space.

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http://thefishpond.in/itty/2009/on-savita-bhabhi/