Sania Mirza
Sania in her provocative clothing.
Posted on 01/19/2006 8:26:43 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge
A new wave of prudishness is washing over India. It's striking the country's prosperous technology capitals and has led to fatwas and campaigns against India's most popular celebrities. And when Playboy hits the newsstands for the first time later this year, its hallmark Bunnies won't be exposing their birthday suits.
The walls of the country's temples are decked with acrobatic friezes of copulating couples. Erotic fables tell of the Hindu God of Love flirting outrageously with naked milkmaids bathing in a river. And next to its philosophical considerations about happiness in marriage, the Kama Sutra also offers useful tips for the entire palette of sexual delight. India's ancient history is studded with unabashed sex.
But what about a female tennis star who wears shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt? Or what happens when an actress so famous her fans dedicate temples to her begins to share her views on condoms and pre-marital sex? Smooching pairs in discotheques? Lovers holding hands on the beach?
By Krishna, no.
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Sania Mirza
Sania in her provocative clothing.
Not muslom, HINDU
India's teenage tennis star, 19-year-old Sania Mirza, likes to pair her skirts with saucy t-shirts with slogans like "I'm cute, no shit," and during the past year, she has risen to become the country's most popular youth icon. As Mirza notched up success after success on international courts -- she went from 987 to 34 in the ATP ratings in just 4 years -- an obscure Islamist group in Mirza's southern hometown of Hyderabad issued a fatwa against her. The Muslim teenager's clothes on court, it claimed, were "un-Islamic" and it ordered her to cover up.
Hindus have fatwas?
The making up technology is doing a great job!
Look at my #3.
A burka-less Muslim-The Mullah's nightmare.
Love means never having to Save your Sari
The article is working overtime to create the impression that this is a Hindu phenomenon. What about the mooselimb factor?
How endearing. Pop needs to turn her across his lap give her some positive reenforcement.
Extremism isn't just a Muslim problem.
-Eric
I'll show her my islamic pillar har har. Yes Im a sex craved infidel!!!!
That is an outrageous statement to compare the RSS to the Taliban. The RSS has never stoned or shot a woman for showing her ankles. This is a totally ignorant statement and obviously made by someone that has never been to india or knows the facts. Sania Mirza is a Muslim woman and the fatwa on her is from Muslim clerics. The RSS is conservative but more in the Jewish trend. To compare them to the terrorist Taliban is outrageous and reeks of ignorance.
I wouldn't mind giving her some of that reinforcement. Bad tennis star, bad tennis star, bad...
(composing myself)
Aishwarya Rai bears a strong resemblance to a 3/4 view of a cartoon nut with three colored balls of descending size in the middle.
She's beautiful, but I wouldn't go that far.
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