If young couples watch the reality shows, soap operas and assorted mindless programming on telly till well past midnight, Mr Azad believes they will drop off to sleep instead of indulging in sexual hank-panky.
If that happens, voila, the minister argues, India's birth rate would come down dramatically.
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