A few months back, a magazine cover which had a woman breastfeeding a child made news. The model was Gilu Joseph who made the bold appearance in the cover. The magazine created a lot of controversy that a case was even filed in the court.

Now the Kerala High Court has made a decision pertaining to this. Yes, the Kerala High Court has given its verdict that the breastfeeding cover picture is ‘not obscene’. “What may be obscene to some, may be artistic to other, one man's vulgarity is another man's lyric,” the court said.

The magazine’s publisher also had earlier stated that the cover was an attempt to remove the social stigma surrounding breastfeeding. The cover caption reads: Mothers tell Kerala, 'please don't stare, we need to breastfeed’.

The court’s judges also brought out the analogy of how Indian culture even saw the sensual in the most sacred sense citing the architecture and sculptures in Ajanta. “We looked at the picture with the same eyes we look at the paintings of Raja Ravi Varma. As beauty lies in the beholder's eye , so does, obscenity perhaps,” the court added.