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However, critics say Indian sensibilities are made of sterner stuff, and warn against the country becoming a nanny state .
Dasmunsi must be told he can’t go about treating us like impressionable children, the Indian Express editorial said yesterday, referring to the broadcasting minister who banned a channel for airing ‘The World’s Sexiest Advertisements’.
Priyarajan Dasmunsi is scrutinising other channels for adult content , the Times of India reported yesterday, after banning AXN, owned by a unit of Sony, for two months earlier this week.

It is not the first time Indian censors have acted. Last week, Dasmunsi ordered two local news channels to apologise for airing footage of a man dressed as freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi performing a pole dance, saying it was an assault to the dignity of the Father of the Nation.
DasmunsiNEW DELHI: Nudity, cigarettes, Paris Hilton and sexy adverts are just some of things the Indian government has tried to hide from its citizens in the last few months.

Lawmakers say it is simply shielding its people from corrupting influences.
However, critics say Indian sensibilities are made of sterner stuff, and warn against the country becoming a "nanny state".
"Dasmunsi must be told he can’t go about treating us like impressionable children," the Indian Express editorial said yesterday, referring to the broadcasting minister who banned a channel for airing ‘The World’s Sexiest Advertisements’.

Priyarajan Dasmunsi is scrutinising other channels for "adult content", the Times of India reported yesterday, after banning AXN, owned by a unit of Sony, for two months earlier this week.
It is not the first time Indian censors have acted. Last week, Dasmunsi ordered two local news channels to apologise for airing footage of a man dressed as freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi performing a pole dance, saying it was an "assault to the dignity of the Father of the Nation.

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In November, undercover police in Mumbai were assigned to scan the catwalks at fashion shows in an effort to prevent a repeat of last year’s episode in which a model’s top slipped to reveal her breasts.
Censors banned Paris Hilton’s music video ‘Stars Are Blind’ from being shown on television in August, which shows the blond socialite cavorting on a beach in revealing clothes.
The government last year also tried to ban smoking scenes in films, reasoning that cigarette-wielding Bollywood stars were influencing people to take up the habit.

Kunal Dasgupta, CEO of Sony Entertainment India, said he was less upset about censorship than the fact that the censors seemed to used their powers randomly.
"Who’s to say one show is raunchier than the other?" he said.

"Things are kind of arbitrary and we’re still waiting for the limits to be defined.