Sandip Roy

It's the "controvery over public art" game show again, this time in Kolkata. Sandip Roy kicks it around for us.

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Earlier this year, artist Shakibul Islam went to the Lepakshi temple in Andhra Pradesh. He was shocked to find that the stone relief figures of the 16th-century temple, both male and female, had their private parts discreetly covered by strips of cloth. What was worse, the modesty strips had been nailed in place. When he asked the security guard how this could be done in a site protected by the Archaeological Survey of India, the guard replied, “Local families come here. They have done this, so there's no bad influence on their children. We cannot do anything.”

Even as corporates and multinationals move away from DEI policies that once made June an explosion of rainbow, LGBT lives are not going back into the closet. Sandip Roy visits and old tattered building in Mumbai to explain.

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A controversy over a 4,500 year old "Dancing Girl" once again raises the question over what constitutes obscenity and vulgarity. Sandip Roy covers his eyes and looks into the situation.

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