{"id":108350,"date":"2017-10-07T13:53:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T08:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108350"},"modified":"2017-10-07T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T08:23:11","slug":"shoba-says-god-ex-are-tricky-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/shoba-says-god-ex-are-tricky-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoba says God &#038; -ex-are tricky words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moderated by art curator Alka Pande, the discussion focused on Kamasutra, Indian erotica and the modern Indian view of sex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shoba De took an unabashed approach and was ready with her words. She said, \u201cThe Kama is a beautiful word, but Kamasutra is the biggest con ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108351 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/de_147074313516_647x404_080916051612.jpg\" alt=\"Shoba says God &amp; -ex-are tricky words \" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, I love the idea that it\u2019s full of trickery and continues to inspire people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adding how the rest of the world was fooled about how Indians enjoy sex, she said, \u201cSex is a threatening and terrifying three-letter word as is the three-letter word, God. Both used for achieving violent goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She hit hard when she spoke about how sex was driven by patriarchy, hiding behind the glorification of rape culture and violation of the bodies of women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderated by art curator Alka Pande, the discussion focused on Kamasutra, Indian erotica and the modern Indian view of sex. Shoba De took an unabashed approach and was ready with her words. She said, \u201cThe Kama is a beautiful word, but Kamasutra is the biggest con ever. However, I love the idea that it\u2019s full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[55188,55189,55194,55190,55192,55193,55195,55187,55191],"class_list":["post-108350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-alka-pande","tag-bodies-of-women-and-children","tag-indian-erotica","tag-indians-enjoy-sex","tag-kama-is-a-beautiful-word","tag-kamasutra","tag-modern-indian-view-of-sex","tag-shoba-de","tag-violent-goals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shobha-de.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}