Increased Amount of Adult Content in Indian Media
By: Aisha Yaqub Recently the Indian Government – specifically the Information and Broadcast Ministry – has banned two hugely popular Indian Reality television shows from prime time broadcasting on channels, due to the fact that there was an increasingly amount of adult content on these shows. The shows are ‘Bigg Boss’, India’s version of UK’s hugely popular reality television show called Big Brother and Rakhi ka Insaf (Rakhi’s Justice). There was a public outcry over the fact that these shows had become too “raunchy” to be broadcasted at prime time. Even though the Ministry has banned the channel broadcasters from broadcasting it before 11 PM, the Government and the affected channels have not yet confirmed about this new ruling. Why did these shows get banned? The fourth series of Bigg Boss, the reality television show attracted headlines all over Indian newspapers and raised a lot of eyebrows, with the arrival of scantily clad Hollywood celebrity Pamela Anderson in the Bigg Boss h