Porn to be alive!

So the porn ban has been partially lifted Heres my threepaiseworth mdash dear government first it was with land reforms and now love making A diktat and then when outrage is expressed a hasty retreat Autocracy morphs into an Alice in Wonderland sea of weak justificationsSo anyway there were three funny jokes flying around social media this week about the aforementioned subject1 After the beef ban they were planning the same for pork but there was a typo in the manifesto2 Acche din is all very wellbut now what happens to acchee raat3 Make in India doesnt allow for shake in IndiaBut there was a fourth joke not intended as a quip The lawyer who filed the ban porn petition claimed allknowingly that Indian women did not watch porn My own early experiences with the Xrated world met with limited successEarly 1980s porn in Bombay was a subterranean business There was no blatant stacking of battery operated gizmos and blue films on the street shops of Flora Fountain If you wanted to see pondi films or gaze at Penthouse it was true cloak and dagger stuffIllustrationUday MohiteVideo store owners had their stock The soft porn Xrated movies occupied the bottom shelf of their libraries covered in brown paper packets But the hard core stuff was hidden in another secret James Bondtype vaultYou entered the store attempting to be nonchalant but failing miserably Do you have uhhellip you asked the counter guy hoping he understood your half completed sentence Haan bolo sir he answered choosing to be ignorantYou couldnt wink So you just smiled sheepishly hoping the guy would get the hint All around you customers were borrowing Star Wars and Bachchan hits After some exaggerated eye rolling and meaningful indications you were led into the James Bond secret roomThe guy reeled off his repertoire Heat Nights Passion2 Heat Nights Passion3 and Heat Nights PassionThe Climax Accha Heat Nights Passion1 nahin hai Bahar gaya Kal aayegaBut your boys night was that night So you borrowed Heat Nights Passion2 It wasnt difficult to figure the plot of thefirst part Of course there were also magazines Like all self respecting hormone raging guys I sneaked an exciting new magazine into my abode called OuiNeedless to say my mother like most mothers of my generation chanced upon the aforementioned adult literature while she was tidying my room How can you be looking at these kind of magazines she exploded Mom I buy these for the music reviews I explained unconvincinglyMy mother went to my father Our son is reading this vile stuff Talk to him tell him this is not okay My father came to my roomYour mother says this not okay he bellowed with a wink Idiot why cant you hide your stack properly he added softly Oui dad I said softlyRahul da Cunha is an adman theatre directorplaywright photographer and traveller Reach him at rahuldacunha62gmailcom