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Censorship

Janil Jean April 6, 2005

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#5 Posted by vagabond78 on April 8, 2005 3:09:05 am
Aila! I meant hiring women engineers in the project teams.

Now, there`s this MNC in bangalore which actually promotes office romance. Their HR figured out that married couples working in their co are least likely to leave the co. Wont be surprised if they a brahman/maulvi in their payroll too :)


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#4 Posted by catfischblues on April 8, 2005 2:34:30 am
Well I`m afraid India is not alone i employing women in the HR. Majority of the HR work in Pakistan is dominated by women as well. Im afraid its the only solution :)
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#3 Posted by vagabond78 on April 7, 2005 7:48:31 pm
Sometimes you get the idea that Islamists are in some kind of crusade. Servants or soldiers of Islam!! And guys who take crusade that seriously dont have time for art, dance and such things. You guys need to cool down a bit. Soldiers, of all kinds, are only capable of murder, brutality, rape and plunder. We`ve seen this from Ghazni to AbuGharib- no difference.

Censorship may not be just sexual in nature. In the west, all kinds of Nazi insignia are banned. It merely reflects the public sentiment. And as society reforms itself censhorship wil be relaxed and the such art will enter into mainstream. In every society this happened bottom up and not top down.

#2 by catfischblues

Counterpoint is it`s the woman who keeps men as gentlemen and not the animals that we really are. Classic e.g.: In early years of IT in India, when most employees were single young men, the office lingo was crass so to speak. Guys would hurl abuses audible to the entire floor. ( If a code `bombs` the root cause is usually someone`s mother or sister :) ). The HR solved this by hiring women aboard. Neat solution, nahin?
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#2 Posted by catfischblues on April 7, 2005 6:13:42 am
This country is so petrified of portraying anything that insinuates sexuality. A nude painting a woman dancing etc. may provoke the animal side of a man to leap out. Completely ignoring that despite censorship people are so bloody sexually frustrated and confused that women continue being harassed and raped. Maybe if we become a sexually open society a lot of the sexual frustration that plague our society can be appeased so that the rest of can get on with admiring works of art and stop debating for what is now a common reality for the rest of the world.
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#1 Posted by ballukhan on April 7, 2005 1:21:20 am
``What will be our legacy to our future generation if we regularly censor our artwork? ...``


Nobody worries about the future in a backward looking culture. All these self proclaimed leaders the Pakistani society are only concerned about `preserving` their glorious past ! So are we mistaking the branch for the root??

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