When one of mid-day’s editors messaged me seeking my humble opinion about Allahbadia, I had no clue who he was. Before replying to her, I hurriedly checked out Google and YouTube, and heard the scandalous thing he had said. It took some searching, I admit, because the media that covered Ranveer Allahbadia’s subsequent grilling for hours by the Crime Branch, including Joint Commissioner Ankur Jain, did not dare repeat the offensive words. I finally heard them on Arnab Goswami’s show—where else?—in which he had that clip playing in a juicy loop. You could be offended over and over and over again till you maxed out.
I found Allahbadia’s sentence—it was only a sentence—rather puerile and scatterbrained. “Would you rather spend your life watching your parents have sex or join in and end it forever?” 

Here’s what went through my head: Nearly half the population of this country lives in dwellings where privacy is a luxury. For children in shanties and slums, the sounds of parental sex are not a mystery. Nothing is secret, including squabbles, violence, alcoholism, abuse and yes, sex.