In an email from my Dad yesterday, he mentioned that they weren’t venturing to the markets that day, because of the Gujjar protest in the NCR. His remarks were wry, in that he said that people are protesting to be declared backward ! Indeed the reservation policy has taken on a twist with these protests […]
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MTV Roadies 5.0 : Prabhjot’s return
Or as it could be called “The descent and rise of Prabhjot” . In Vote-Out #5 , she went out. And in the most recent episode she came back in, after challenging and winning over Anmol – good for her ! In the episode where she got voted out, amazingly all of the remaining roadies […]
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There have been 4 vote-outs so far, with 5 people being voted out (2 in the first vote-out) : Simran & Varun, Vikrant, Snehashish and Ankita. So the intial 13 roadies (Ankita, Simran, Sonel, Shambhavi, Anmol, Prabhjot, Snehashish, Ashutosh, Varun, Vibhor, Vikrant, Ayaz, Nihal) have been reduced to 8 : Ayaz, Prabhjot, Sonel, Ashutosh, Vibhor, […]
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A totally nutcase-y email landed in my Inbox the other day. This is what it said : This is an awareness drive to awake people to boycott movie ‘Jodhaa Akbar’.The movie Jodhaa Akbar is a vile, vicious, and covert attempt by a mischievous producer/director from Bollywood (Mumbai) to make quick bucks by denigrating and vilifying […]
Read the rest of this entry »MTV Roadies 5.0 : Let’s vote out the bad girls !
MTv Roadies 5.0 has 5 girls left : Shambavi, Anmol, Ankita, Sonel and Prabhjot. Ankita (Simran) has been voted. However, before she got voted out, in one of the earlier episodes, there was a scene where Shambavi, Simran and Anmol are plotting to vote out Sonam, because as Shambavi puts it, she’s too fat – […]
Read the rest of this entry »Where are you from, really ?
The current controversy – that of the Maharashtrian, brings to mind the question of belonging. I have no “accent” so to speak, no Haryanvi influence, no UP-ite drawl, no Punjabi ruggedness, no American accent. I am often asked where I am from , now in the US, and many, many times in India. I often […]
Read the rest of this entry »MTV Roadies – The Show
I don’t watch many reality shows. However one that really has me hooked is “MTV Roadies”. I’ve heard that it was originally inspired from a US show of similar genre, but definitely adapts (and makes excellent TV viewing) to the desi climate. It’s in it’s fifth season, and comprises of 13 youngsters (18-22 from the […]
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Hot off yesterday’s presses (the television channels had a field day speculating) news of Sania Mirza’s decision to not play in the Bangalore Open. Sania, who’s only 21, has had a lot of “flak” from everyone who has a mouth, camera and media access, apparently. Her clothes are indecent, not covering her sufficiently, say fundie […]
Read the rest of this entry »Subtle images of disempowerment
NDTV has been advertising the advent of it’s new channel NDTV Imagine, which starts Jan 21st. One of the advertisements is for the soap “Radha ki betyaan kuch kar dikhayengi”. From the web “Radha Ki Betiyaan is the story of a proud mother who instils the right values in her daughters and believes in their […]
Read the rest of this entry »How to offend Indian sensibilities (reprise)
Have you heard ? Muslim fundies have been offended yet again ! From Mid-day : “The All India Ulema Council (AIUC), an umbrella organisation of Muslims, is ‘shocked’ that the Godrejs gave a warm welcome to Salman Rushdie in Mumbai last week.” . . . . “The AIUC has demanded an apology from Godrej chairman […]
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