Indian Samurai इंडियन सामुराई

The other day I was walking down the street, all light – and I was that I must have lost some weight which I remember because it does not happen so often!!

A guy stops me. Bollywood style: tight jeans, muscles, sunglasses, ears pierced. I’m listening to my music full volume so I could pretend I haven’t heard him but I decide to have some fun and see what he wants.

He gives me his card. He is a power yoga teacher at a gym club nearby, the club of the stars. And his cards indicates that he is a celebrity trainer. He asks me if I go to parties, if I “show my face”?? Ah no. He tells me that power yoga is good, if I want to learn I can just call him and get a few lessons free. And he adds “it is good to lose weight”. Wait, wait, wait, do you mean I need to lose weight? “Ah yeah of course”.

Ah yeah of course. You take your card back my friend, I insist. And you leave me alone.

Thank you.

It is no better than a customer two days back who comes in the meeting room. Hello. How are you? You have put on weight no?

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The photo on FHM India website on December 15th (apparently changed on 7th).

The initial picture on FHM India website early December (and on the paper print).

I have to say, nothing will stop them...          
How to make a fuss about a magazine (FHM India in this case)?        
You take a Pakistani actress and you put her half-naked on the cover!               
Pakistan (and especially his father who has disowned her till further notice) cries wolf because of her nudity (a crime for Muslims), but no one reacts to the fact that she is dressed as a warrior, with a grenade in her mouth! "The Pakistani Veenam Malik shows you how to throw a grenade!"         
When you know the tensions between Pakistan and India ... 

To understand, it would be like publishing a cover, in a French magazine, in 1950, with a German supermodel wearing a gas mask and quoting: "The German Bertha teaches you how to use gas. "
Good taste no?

For those interested, she attacked the magazine, saying she had not posed nude and it was photoshoped; Mmmhhh ... And then a few days later she accepted an "item role" in a Bollywood film. Yet Dad has disowned her until the photoshop special effect is proved and she swears never to set foot in India again.
So if the Pakistanis see India as the land of debauchery, I dare not even imagine what they think the United States!

Not later than last week, I shocked my Indian boyfriend (not a Muslim) by crossing the hall of a 5-star beach resort wearing a bikini as I was wet and going to fetch my clothes. He could not understand why I would not cover myself. Because it is Goa, a 5-star, I am just passing by and I don’t want to wet my tee-shirt. And I am not the kind who likes to show off in a bikini.     

Anyway FHM India and Veena Malik managed a good publicity stunt!

I went to see a movie, The Dirty Picture. It tells the story of Silk Smitha, a South Indian actress who became famous for her “sexy” roles. She was vividly pictured in this movie, with a few suggestive scenes and A LOT of boobs (clivage) showing!!

Two things caught my attention from the audience.

The first one was an exclamation (of sheer surprise) from a middle-aged woman when the naked back of the actress came up on the screen (we later realised that she was sitting on a guy).

The second one was a middle-aged couple behind me; the man (like fat, bold, glasses, moustache) was fondling his woman’s boobs (the hand well inside the shirt) for more than an hour – she seemed to like it. In a houseful theatre, including children!!

Then it got me thinking…

Let us start with “public display of affection” (holding hands, kissing etc.). How many times

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