Sushma Swaraj disapproves of kisses, up close and personal and public. In her born-again Sushma Scissorhands avatar, the honourable I&B minister has been rather busy snipping all kinds of 'impurities' from the small screen. She yelled cut after she saw John Abraham's lips meet Vidisha Pavate's in a toothpaste ad on TV. What is it about a kiss that has the moral police in India frothing at the mouth? Funnily enough, were the minister to turn her gaze to the big screen, there wouldn't be too much snipping to do by way of kisses: Bollywood is rather squeamish about kissing. Simulated sex, pelvic thrusts and graphic violence, however, are all fine—there's as much as you want.
But no kissing please, we are Indian.