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Title: Transgender Talk Show Host Tackles Taboos in India
Post by: Shana A on April 03, 2008, 01:09:43 PM
Transgender Talk Show Host Tackles Taboos in India

by Scott Carney NPR

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

Day to Day, April 3, 2008 ยท 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.