Friday, January 19, 2007

Calling Maneka!!Is anyone HOME?


First Nashik then Kashmir, two leopards die, one killed and the other dies on the way to the jungle. Well where are the activists now.
Hello Maneka are you listening.
Often we see the headlines as Leopard intrude into the Human area. Well is this the truth or its the vice versa? Is it that we humans are basically intruding their areas? With the current two incidents of Leopard intruding into the Human habituated areas with a few thousand of people living, is no surprise enough to raise an alarm in the Human mind, about the growing distance between the Human Beings and the Creatures of the wild. The current episode of the Leopard intruding into a town and the end footage of the video being shown as the creature being beaten up and the other video showing the creature been beaten till death is really weird and horrid.
This is though no offend to anyone but then there are hundreds of people including children dying in Kashmir daily , and this leopard eating 3 children is brutally Murdered, why don’t the people come out like this against the other Mass Murderers?
Where are their guts, when they need to come out and fight against the so called anti social element who kill or try to kill a few hundred daily?
This forms definitely another part of the debate, coming back to the leopards; this has been seen intensely in the past few years, and where in the area around the Sanjay Gandhi National park in the out skirts of Mumbai has been a big spectator of the cat attacking the common man. With increased efforts of catching the cat have been a waste, the terror among the citizens i.e. the people staying around always engulfs them.
Though the current attacks may have definitely brought back those haunted memories in the mind of the people living around the park in Mumbai, it should also trigger an alarm among the people of the growing interference of us Human beings into the Habitat of the Cat. Deforestation is definitely a very big factor of the above attacks, and if not taken in seriously those days are not far when you would have more than 1 leopard or other wild animals being killed brutally by the so called stronger weapon class of the Earth the Human Beings !!

Indianism v/s Racism

After a hue and cry and media having something to blur upon in channels and all, Shilpa Shetty a known actress in India, suddenly withdraws her racism charges.(Source Rediff.com ; Channel4 website )

With all the media and everyone even the Finance minister of India (I would not mind calling him the Sir of India's Economy; nothing political closeness to be attributed here) and the UK chancellor condemning the so called Racial Remarks against an Indian, this so called Indian actress who has never won even a single Filmfare (the so called Prestigious Award for the Indian Film Industry) withdrew the racism charges.

Amazing Huh!!!

Ok what was it all about; Big Brother is a common show hosted in England, and Shilpa Shetty is one of the contestants, who are supposed to be paid some Millions of Rupees, by the Host of the shows. This show though has an Indian version and has been quite famous suddenly shot itself into maybe one of the top 50 searches by an Indian Surfer within the past 2 days due to the recent controversy of racism charges against the so famous actress of the Indian Film Industry. Ok before going into this lets define racism, racism, according to me is defining someone or a better word would be discriminating some one on the basis of cast, color and obviously region.

Coming to this, what was said in the show that it sparked such protests and everything; before this i read in the introduction of Shilpa Shetty in the so called Channel 4 web page about what she has to say and this is what she has to say "She says...?

"I have zero expectations. The only thing I really hope to keep is my self-respect and my dignity.""

Ok now what happened in the show; as this show is not aired in India; this is what was said (source bbc)

Here 'they' refer to contestant/contestants

"""

They referred to her as "the Indian", made fun of her accent and accused her of wanting to be more light-skinned.

One inhabitant of the Big Brother house said that Indians were so thin because they ate undercooked food, which made them ill.

"""

Well obviously i understand that making fun of accent is or maybe a racial remark, but then is it really a racial remark , even though Indians have become a major part of the complete Globalization happening around the world we all know that every part of India has a different accent of speaking English , and you can easily make out from the so called accent , as to which part of the country are you from ? Coming to the other part, Undercooked food well even burgers have cabbage leaves which is uncooked, maybe the contestants were not knowledgeable about the undercooked food concept.Ok lets come to the other part of it, now this is what I called Racism!!

She ,being called a dog. Yes this is racial remarks, and the other part being touching the food by hands, but then again it depends till what extent you take this to.

Why do I call this racial remarks, we all know there was a so called sign during the British time which was really racial and this happened in the show, where in She was called a Dog. Well this is the part of it where it should be a real reason for the controversy, but now with the actress withdrawing all the charges where do we stand?

Well this statement was obviously though a disgraceful classification, but then where do we all stand in as a country which was united for a single cause of being racially abused and then suddenly the Indian withdraws the charges. Well that’s India isn’t it. Anyways no Hard feelings, with the Chancellor of UK visit to India this was condemned and was also condemned by the Prime Minister Of UK about racism being not tolerated, and the comments though were considered as being really pin pointed towards the country, has been suddenly denied by the person who was being racially abused.

With this controversy becoming the centre of attraction of the latest trip by Gordon Brown, and Shilpa Shetty just asking about the apology and further saying that she is ready to apologize for the same, and to further act to the same withdrawing all the charges of Racism , this thing just seems to be all blown up , blown up by every part of the society ; a remark which though should have not only given a thought to this actress from withdrawing from the show but also asking a full apology for the same. However one thing is sure; this controversy has made us realize that India will not stand any racial abuse and is ready to fight for it!!

This should be the right time for Indians all over the world to stand and fight against the so called Racism and their exploitations if any....