Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

Broad-minded Bengaluru

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Bengaluru has no problem with religion and sex toys. But it doesn’t want men in kitchens. In India’s IT capital, 40.8% youth want sex toys to be easily available in markets. Just 26.3% from Mumbai agree to this and the rest, with just 1.7% from Bhubaneswa­r, think sex aids have no place in people’s homes.

On a positive note, 92.2% from the Karnataka capital say they have good friends cutting across religious lines as against the all-India figure of 52%. About 81.5% in Ahmedabad, however, say they don’t have such friends.

And while 63.1% Indians say they won’t go in for inter-caste marriage, youngsters from Chandigarh (56.7%), Hyderabad (50%) and Bengaluru (47.2%) have no such issues.

About 50.5% people from the Karnatoo taka capital also say they won’t mind being in a live-in relationsh­ip. Bhubaneswa­r (95%) and Indore (94.2%) give the idea a thumbs down.

Despite having reservatio­ns over live-in relationsh­ips, 45% people in Kochi say there is nothing wrong in premarital sex if both the partners are in love. Youngsters from Lucknow (41.7%) are okay with premarital sex but 95% respondent­s from Jaipur are against it.

Delhiites at 96.7% are strongly against the drinking age being the same as voting age. About 43.3% from Kochi, 31.7% from Lucknow and 31.6% from Kolkata are for it.

Gender bias is strongly prevalent in Pune, Ranchi and Patna, where 83.7%, 81.7% and 80%, respective­ly, don’t like the idea of husbands helping working wives in the kitchen. In Bengaluru, 68% youth vote against it but others in Bhubaneswa­r (61.7%) rule in favour of wives.

Bengaluru again reflects a bias when 59.2% youth say they want at least a boy child. In Indore too 43.3% people are in favour of the male child. About 88.2% Mumbaikars have no problems with it.

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