At The Edge

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Last night a cousin went browsing through my trash collection of old magazines. He paused at this particular ad and told me about Radha Seth. He recalled Siddharth Basu's Quiz Time that had  Radha Seth as co-host. And he recalled a particular episode of Mr. Yogi. The Episode: video link

The book has an introduction by poet-writer Dom Moraes. He drops lines about India's rich erotic past - the poems, the paintings, the books, the sculptures et cetera. It reads almost like a plea that goes - a book like this should not be seen as an anomaly. In year 1996, a book of nudes featuring Indian women could have been nothing but an anomaly.

Andy Green , the first person to break the sound barrier on land and the current holder of the World Land speed record reached a speed of 763.035 mph (1227.99 km/h) on October 15 , 1997 , exactly 50 years and 1 day after the sound barrier was broken in aerial flight by Chuck Yeager . Andy is now working to break the 1,000 mph mark in a car called Bloodhound SSC . It should be complete by the end of this year and the first attempt may come in 2011. Image (left): Castrol celebrating the feat and its contribution to the machine in an ad published that week of year 1997 in Hindustan Times.

Search 'Censorship in India' and there is absolutely no chance that you won't find 'Madhu Sapre-Milind Soman year 1995 Tuff Ad ' mentioned in articles of any merit. Without doubt '90s would have been duller without Madhu Sapre. Madhu Sapre is now married to an Italian man who is into ice-cream business. I think 'Tuff' case is still in court. Found the image in A&M Magazine (March 1999)

2nd September, 2009 Rewind: The video of Alisha Chinoy song 'De,de,de,de dil de de Mujhko', a single from her 1994 album 'Bombay Girl', was deemed too improper, almost indecent, outright Adult for the vetted audience of the national broadcaster - Doordarshan.  The hot video directed by Ken Ghosh came out in 1996 quick on the heels of success of their previous collaboration for video of 'Made in India' - a phenomena that led to the boom of 'Indi-Pop' which continued for about half a decade till the fizz slowly died down. 'Indecent Exposure' by Alisha Chinoy didn't keep Doordarshan.from showing the video in one of their 'Indi-Pop' countdown shows running on DD Metro. They did show it, complete, no cuts, it wasn't banned outright, but they did pixelate the offending parts. So the audience, perplexed, got to see heavily pixelated cleavage of Alisha Chinoy. Let's just say, as you can see from the sample image, it didn't h...