POP & ROCK

This just in from New Delhi: An Indian news agency is reporting that a prominent professor in the South Asian nation is claiming that Western rock music produces drug-like effects on listeners, encourages suicidal tendencies and should be banned from India. The United News of India quoted philosophy professor Martin Kobialka as telling a drug seminar in the northern city of Pune that banning rock music in India would help halt the spread of drugs. “When you have such good Indian music, why do you need rock music from the West? Better ban it, if possible,” the agency quoted Kobialka as saying.