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Transgender Talk Show Host Tackles Taboos in India

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Transgender Talk Show Host Tackles Taboos in India

by Scott Carney NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89340513

Day to Day, April 3, 2008 · India may be the home of the Kama Sutra, but for years frank talk about sex has been utterly taboo.

Lately, however, a transgender talk show host is changing the boundaries of dialogue. In recent episodes of her show Ippadikku Rose, Rose has tackled workplace harassment, divorce, premarital sex and the benefits of legalizing prostitution.

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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