kudos to the english and the sponsors who withdrew support. this kind of thing at a larger scale keeps happening in india but the indian media has completely failed & turned a blind eye to highlight those that happens in india. does any corporate in india has such an ideology
RE:Beauty and the Brother
by sandeep on Jan 23, 2007 01:12 PM
To put this in right perspective, do you know of similar cases in India, happening in front of millions of people which has been ignored by Indian media? Or is this just usual cynical rant?
This is the oldest game in world history played amongst all peoples on all continents. Is not caste apartheid the most prevalent game in India today?
I am British %u2013 fortunately or not, born in London - (Irish father & orphan mother) %u2013 & u know the Irish have had a hard time at the hands of the Brits historically. Be that as it may I don%u2019t live in the past. I have now lived in India 15 yrs & am married to an Indian lady & have multi-cultural baby. So much for the personals%u2026 Britain is the most multi-cultural nation on the planet & London the greatest inter racial city that the world knows. Like most of us I have only seen the repetitive TV clips of people arguing %u2013 not the actual accusatory remarks. But Ms Goody does appear to have been highly obnoxious & aggressive %u2013 Shilpa has been cool, being paid or not is beside the point. From what I have seen & heard I wouldn%u2019t call the remarks full of hate and fascism or downright racist %u2013 just plain stupid and ignorant because Goody may be as thick as they come. Similar invective goes on the world over %u2013 in all countries amongst all peoples and YES, India has a myriad of problems in this regard. We could bore one another ad infinitum about prejudices we see up & down India, day in day out. I know it well as I employ some 70 Dalits. Equally I have experienced the F off home stuff from some Indians with malice in their eyes. But these incidents are reasonably rare and overall Indians are highly hospitable, pleasant and philosophical people, more so the illiterate amongst us more fortunately educated. So of course there are folks in England & India and any other country you care to name (just travel around and see) who are xenophobic and anti any sort of outsider %u2013 this is FEAR, nothing more or nothing less.
I forget now but it was probably the great Vivekananda who wrote of loving one%u2019s country. Loving your country and your people is wonderful, because by doing so you have the opportunity to grow to love all people, to love all countries. Therein lies the key to unlock one%u2019s own prejudices. I love India, Indian people, all people all countries %u2013 some may not like me, I can%u2019t help that %u2013 but I must be compassionate and understand why they feel like that.
Fear is the cause of Iraq war, Kashmir and all other problems. It%u2019s not Religion, Racism, Greed, Oil and so on but FEAR %u2013 of %u2018What will happen to me%u2019 %u2018My/our way of life%u2019 %u2018The dark%u2019 %u2018The unknown%u2019 %u2018I feel inferior/I feel superior %u2013 I better not fall%u2019 %u2018I am poor, I must protect my wealth%u2019. All human action & reaction originates in one of only two places: Love or Fear, in Creative or Reactive thoughts (anagram). At its foundation there is no other place from which life may emerge, no other source from which thought, word or action may come from. Of these two, these days, FEAR is the predominant leader which is driving human behaviour. Most of our mental constructions and social conventions are fear based. We have constructed them to protect us from something %u2013 outsiders?? None of these protections work do they? As proof is in the living we are observing. Therefore time and again the same old issue erupts, over here, over there now. It will not stop unless I change, unless u change. More is unsaid than said, more concealed than revealed, more covered than uncovered. We people have created this scenario quite intentionally, fearing that if everybody knew everything about everyone, no one would be able to be, do and have what they want. i.e. not to share. So no blaming me, them, whites, non whites, religion, the dollar, oil, racism, pollution, ism, schism%u2026 overcome fear and rise above prejudice, lead with compassion, rather than be led in fear. All attack is seen by the attacker as a defence e.g. %u201Cwe must defend our American way of life%u201D. See how this Bush%u2019ism is based in fear %u2013 it%u2019s not his fault. He lives in a world which believes in a right or wrong paradigm, this world where there is no such thing as right or wrong - only what works and what doesn%u2019t work. Right or wrong are judgments. We maim and kill with impunity to obtain what we want by saying we had no choice, we have to defend ourselves. The same goes for all situations in anybody%u2019s life, battlefields to bus stops, bedrooms to boardrooms to. Nobody attacks, Everybody defends. We have a crisis & India can go a long way to healing the crisis. She has a history that no other shares, a philosophy that is so timelessly relevant in all ages.
When India rediscovers her oneness, the people will marvel at how they ever have imagined themselves to be separate from anyone or anything else. An upheaval in the present beliefs and values is necessary if we are to produce a society who understand that neither race nor gender nor nationality nor religious persuasion nor sexual orientation nor any other aspect of a person%u2019s individuality should disqualify that person from participating fully in the human experience at the highest level and in whatever way they choose, so long as that choice does not impinge upon the rights or safety of others. What is needed is a revolution. Revolution means to revolve, or turn around and such an idea would turn around much of our reality. Who would deny that we, the Earths people need this. Who is willing to fearlessly participate? I suspect the overwhelming majority will be too fearful to stand up and be counted, too willing to hang on to the outdated paradigm, to defend their things and beliefs and in order to do so, attack. So no thing or no one else is to blame, it is how it is because I and you are how we are.
RE:Its all about FEAR
by Indra Sengupta on Jan 23, 2007 11:36 AM
Michael you are riding a cycle of emotions. Not so much to talk about. The entire episode tells how so many things can be produced out of nothing. a) Publicity for Shilpa b) Publicity for Jade b) Publicity for the show A very clever ploy, befooled millions.
I have been a management student and this clearly indicates thats its a publicity stunt aimed to increased the popularity of the show in Asian countries also!! Thats y they invited shilpa..Every channel is hungry about TRP's...
shilpa only goes there to win the prize of some crores..what she wants is money.. but see now the problem about racism became a great issues between the two country..
RE:indians view by Anand kumar V
by vasutam on Jan 23, 2007 03:15 PM
who doesn't want money man? And this issue is not caused by Shilpa, racism is there for decades and now becoz of this incident it has surfaced again in front of people.
RE:RE:indians view by Anand kumar V
by Ishan Mitra on Jan 26, 2007 07:47 AM
Exactly who doesn't want money in today's world...and its the general public who have made this into a huge issue not Shilpa...
mr.. mp singh.. wake up........ please spend time reading something better.. well analysing something better... " Shilpa has been a great role model for India and there is great pride amongst the British Asians in the UK. Decency won"...
did you see her use the 4 letter word so frequently in the show.... and the article says... she did india proud and is a role model..!!!!!!!wow....
This is the best analytically focused and well composed article I have read about the whole episode of racial treatment given to our dear Shilpa in Big Brother's house and subsequent reactions and implications there of. I whole heartedly congratulate Mr. Dalbir Bains .
The entire episode tells how so many things can be produced out of nothing. a) Publicity for Shilpa b) Publicity for Jade b) Publicity for the show A very clever ploy, befooled millions.
Dear friends, Racism is every where in our society whether in UK or India only but its meaning changes from person to person country to country , every one likes to have frds from same race , in india we divide our society on the name castes and religon , every one wants to have there own MP or MLA from there caste they don't like other people this is also a type of racism , we are divided on the basis of region this is also a type of racism , i live in New zealand last two years and i have been to many other countries , off course white people like white people but they are always unbiased and polite, live in peace and change yourself first then think about other , the main thing here is the reaction from british media and companies they are not black but they supported shilpa
I dont understand a site like rediff has run out of stock of sensible things apart from showing abt a female who went there to flaunt her body and was criticised.
she is a confused person- calls herself india's angelina jolie-eh
she says ppl passed racist remark and the next day she withdraws- quite a mad cap
RE:why so much fuss
by Ishan Mitra on Jan 26, 2007 12:33 AM
are you for real? have you actually seen the show? she has dignified herself so well...she never called herself angelina jolie...she has been termed that in one of the reviews for Dus.
