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India’s Morality Police Get Into Action Again

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Jun 24, 2014
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In Mumbai, shapely women dance away to blaring Bollywood numbers under colorful lights in a hazy air-conditioned atmosphere as clients, mainly youth, wealthy businessmen or tourists, shower them with currency notes.

Or at least they did.

The interactive sessions with the dancers came to a sudden stop last week throughout the southern state of Maharashtra,…

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