Disclaimer: Dad, if you are reading this, sorry, but you know I had to write about this, its stupid how these people think. There goes creative thinking down the drain- and hence I never adopted it.
Agreed. We've got a population problem in India. Increased population leads to increased pressure on the economy, on the food chain, such and such. Clearly, you can see I am least bothered about the population problem by itself.
Indian Health Minister, Ghulam Naqbi Azad, in an interview about ways to reduce increase in population has said that heightened viewing of television, especially in rural India, will reduce the production of babies. Firstly, LOL at that. (Daddy, LOL=laugh out loud). I mean really, seriously, really? Where did you come up with that Mr. Azad?
I quote him here- "Television has one great benefit above all... if electricity reaches every village people will watch television late into the night and will have no time to produce babies. I would believe 80% of birth control be taken care of by television." Again, LOL. Imagine the plight of the birth control pill companies, even worse poor I-pill was just launched. How will it survive?
Obvious outrage in me, hence the lack of coherence. Someone asked me, what channels will be shown to these people- I say GOOD QUESTION. Now answer that Mr. Azad. Please do not show them something equivalent to the History Channel, cause then they might as well, spend time having sex, and if there's something on TV that's useful(in every sense of the word), then more incentive for them to check it out (;)). I mean learn stuff from TV if you wish to. TV as birth control, yea right.
So all those villages eagerly waiting for electricity, its coming, cause Mr.Azad thinks it will give you something to do. :D Sure it will...
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Abandon sex the TV way
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Mamta too follows the call...
new addition in budget.. no trains to cross ny villages in night.. bcoz if they do and people wake up then even TV will not help either... :P
but seriously Mr. Minister take some responsibility and refrain from making statements like these and I would like to request the media to also lash out news bits like these instead of making them funny news that will raise the sales
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_electricity-will-solve-india-s-population-problem-azad_1273240
That can partially be true as TV can serve as a good medium.
But the way he has quoted that seems like Sex and TV are mutually exclusive events and will definitely help the cause.
also the amount cable operators charge nowadays is a contradiction to what he says " cheapest form of entertainment"
Looks like this will be the first episode of "Azad India" serial if anything like this is going to happen ;)
its true ... lack of entertainment is one of the factors...
read this :
http://www.womeninfluencingthenation.com/hurricane-ikes-baby-boom-god-brings-good-out-of-all-things.html
Television as contraception? Heh heh heh! Wow, I can already imagine TV companies churning out ads based on this con(tra)cept!
(I loved the parenthesized conversation with Kaku!)
The whole idea that villagers have sex due to the lack of 'entertainment' is so clichéd!! If that were true, then we city people would have never even so much as had a hint of a sex life, due to the excessive availability of entertainment... and yet we manage to get lucky.
Someone please tell the ministers that there are other uses of rubber too... it' not just used for erasing!
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