"I never realised Electric Winch Factory that it was the first same-sex web series. My favourite part in the series is how I explain homosexuality to pappu in a way that it is easy to understand yet not silly," elaborates Anand. Scriptwriters are known to have spoken about how they’re compelled to portray prominent characters in certain ways to ensure maximum eyeballs during prime time. It is always better that children understand sex and genders through their parents and not through pornography. Sometimes, while trying to talk on these issues, one can go so horribly wrong so we had to be very careful with the script. He begins to understand them as time passes. Despite not having any nudity or obscene language in the series, the CBFC has been obstructing them from airing on television channels, says Amit, hoping to be on television soon. "We wanted to bring out information about sex and gender in a sensible way with a tinge of humour.

  "Today one can go online and find a lot of information and many groups that support them, but back in the ’90s there was nothing," Roopa says, adding that when she first approached the producers for the series, they thought it was a porn series!Another such series is All About Section 377. One of the first series on the web about same-sex stories is The Other Love Story, a story of two Indian women in love.A new wave of web series are addressing the lives of the LGBTQI community in a realistic way sans the caricaturish antics Some of the most popular shows on Indian television take pride in the length of time they’ve been on air — thanks to the soap opera revolution brought in by Ekta Kapoor and her ilk. Coming from the Yash Raj Films’ subsidiary Y-Films is the show Sex Chat with Pappu and Papa, which has been bringing out the closeted topics of sex, homosexuality, and a lot more, through questions from an adorably inquisitive seven-year-old boy Pappu.