Why Bollywood Needs A Mandate For Intimacy Coordinators: Aastha Khanna, India’s First Intimacy Coordinator Unplugged

Meet India’s first intimacy coordinator, Aastha Khanna, who is sensitizing the Hindi film industry about what constitutes as ethics and safety in intimacy

In the third episode of this series, Khanna talks about why Bollywood needs stricter rules and guidelines for the use of an intimacy coordinator. Watch this space for more.

(Interviewed and produced by Manasi Phadnis; Edited by Dhruv Sharma)

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