Make babies, not love

K.S. Sudarshan of the Rashtriya Sanghasevak Sangh hit the headlines today with another outlandish comment: Hindus must procreate at a faster rate to keep up with the Muslim rate of population growth. He says Christians and Muslims are growing at a percentage that has reduced Hindus to a minority in many parts of the country. His fears are based on true census figures.

His solution: A Hindu couple must have at least three children. He would be happy of every couple has over a dozen.

Sudarshan is a bachelor, like other big Sangh leaders. All pracharaks have to practise celibacy as a rule. The exceptions are kept hush-hush.

He and his organisation have always called sex a dirty thing and a corrupting influence of the West. Don't kiss and caress and hold hands. Don't make love, make babies.

They discourage recreation, encourage procreation. His shares his initials with a famous condom, a latex contraption that prevents procreation, boosts recreation. That latex derives its name from a famous treatise by Vatsyayana, a saint who told Indians how to bring recreation into the act then performed only for procreation since creation.