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Mumbai Mirror's well-known sexpert who shared his witty and educational sexual advice, Dr. Mahinder Watsa passed away at the age of 96. Netizens share heartfelt condolences.
The famous sexpert from Mumbai Mirror's column 'Ask the Sexpert', Dr. Mahinder Watsa passed away on Monday at the age of 96. In times when sex education wasn't available and any discussion about sex was considered to be an even bigger taboo, Dr. Watsa tried his best to educate people about sexual health with his witty and informative replies.
Dr. Watsa left his practice to devote his time to counselling and education in the early 1980s. He began his career as a columnist in the 1960s, dispensing medical advice in a women's magazine. The organisation Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) in 1974 started India's first sex education, counselling, and therapy centre after Dr. Watsa proposed that a sexual counselling and education program should be introduced in the country. His demise led to people sharing their gratitude for his lifelong work and for helping so many young and old people with important and necessary guidance about sexual health.
Here's how people reacted to the sad demise of Dr. Mahinder Watsa:
How unfortunate is the news of Dr Mahinder Watsa of #AskTheSexpert passing away just a few days after the end of the legendary @MumbaiMirror newspaper! #MondayThoughts; although it's become a weekly now it just won't feel right without the doctor's column in it.
— Asad Khan (@asad96khan) December 28, 2020
Just learnt that Dr.Mahinder Watsa is no more. What a legend! Will miss his humour, philosophy & contribution to a field that is considered taboo in the Indian context. Truly a legend! #RIPDrMahinderWatsa @MumbaiMirror
— namit das (@dasnamit) December 28, 2020
Our guide to puberty Dr. Mahinder Watsa passed away.
— Dr. Bhaumik Kamdar (@kamdar_j) December 28, 2020
No kid in Mumbai must've grown up without reading his column.
In middle-class families, both the parents & the child used to read that column without letting each other know about it.
Sincere Condolences 🙏
The #Sexpert has gone. Mumbai institution Dr Mahinder Watsa is dead. He wrote for @MumbaiMirror from the day it started in 2005 until the last edition nine days ago without a single day’s break. Here’s a piece I wrote on him in 2015 https://t.co/iSm1phvLem
— Surbhi Singh (@surbhi_singh__) December 28, 2020
For a country that does not teach its young people to freely talk about their bodies and their sexual needs, Dr Mahinder Watsa was a beacon of light and hope. May he rest in peace.
— Rituparna Chatterjee (@MasalaBai) December 28, 2020
Dr Mahinder Watsa was a credit to the medical profession. He was a legend in his lifetime. Thinking of all those parents who’d tear his page out so their kids couldn’t read it.
— Nayanika (@nayanikaaa) December 28, 2020
Dr. Mahinder Watsa is dead.
— 🐼 (@chulbolpandey) December 28, 2020
Lost a progressive legend aaj who was the sole reason my parents used to give me dead eye looks when I used to read Mumbai Mirror.
it's ironic that with the end of Mirror, Dr Watsa also dies. #RIP to the legend who normalised sex for the illiterate desi.
— Jayadev (@jayadevcalamur) December 28, 2020
Thank you and RIP, Sir.