The Indian media, who have years before they can claim some semblance of restraint and objectivity, just love to sensationalize ‘news’ and pass it off as facts. They don't believe in Innocence Until Proven Guilty. Its always the other way around.
Truth, afterall, would make very boring copy.
Actor Shiney Ahuja was accused of rape yesterday by his maid and remanded to judicial custody. The media then made a circus of this and reported a number of ‘breaking news’ all of which have since been proved to be wrong.
a) He did not break down and confess.
b) He wasn’t given fresh juice and questioned in a AC room. (Even if he was what the hell’s the problem) (India TV)
c) He did NOT scream in anguish “My wife does not love me anymore that’s why…” to the police. (Zee News) and…
d) The song “Ya Ali” was not playing in his room while he raped the maid. (a breathless reporter on Zee News again)
He may possible have done it but that’s for the court to decide, not the media and certainly not with innuendo and lies.
“Rape is a deplorable act and must be condemned. I condemn it strongly”, said the quote-hanger Mahesh Bhatt as always , ever-ready to spout his opinion on every possible topic.
Thank God he chose to be a director not a Judge.
With regards to the Aussie Racism case the English media is slowly beginning to see reason.I have attached 2 articles below, 1 from Hindustan Times and 1 from CNN-IBN.
Very interesting and they reflect pretty much of what I had mentioned in my previous blog.
“When you say you’re from Shillong,” she said, “the response is usually: Yeh kahaan hai? (Where’s that?) Sri Lanka?”
The attacks are a terrible occurrence, she said. “But Indian students work and travel at odd hours… youngsters and drug addicts indulge in these derogatory activities…and, sadly, Australia as a country is blamed.”
That fleeting interaction reminded me of a similar experience I had had with an African-American man in a New York subway station some years ago. I'd helped him out with some directions, and he lingered to chat.
The chromatic caricature of Indians as a dark-skinned people occurs fairly commonly around the world, although it's seldom explicitly mentioned in civil circles. (In any case, us Indians go to greater lengths than most others in our reverence of gori-ness!)
AN AD FOR A PERFUME BY BURGER KING (Seriously!)
Seriously would you buy this? Would you like to smell like a burger?
Very interesting and they reflect pretty much of what I had mentioned in my previous blog.
And after that you can check out the craziness that can now be sold across the world.
A new perfume and you will not believe which company is launching it (a hint: its not LÓreal) what the ‘flavour’ is (hint: not jasmine or rose).
Seriously!
Seriously!
'Oz more welcoming than Delhi'
Anamika Dutt and Madhulika Sonkar,
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times
New Delhi, June 16, 2009
As you read this, a 39-year-old Manipuri from Meghalaya will be preparing to marry an Austr-alian and move to that country.The reports of 20 Indian students being attacked in that country in the last month do not bother Indira Singh.Her sister L Geeta (47) married an Australian and immigrated two years ago, and she’s never been happier.“I went from being a ‘Chinky’ in Delhi to being a first-class citizen of the world,” said Geeta, who is in town for her sister’s wedding on Tuesday. “Australia is being accused of racism in the Indian media, but I was never harassed in Australia like I was tormented here.”In Delhi, Geeta said, people would shout things at her as she walked down the street. No one would rent the sisters a flat.
“Landlords would tell us ‘We don’t allow tenants to have boys running around’. We’d swallow our pride and say that was not an issue,” Indira smiled. “We wouldn’t get the flat anyway.”
And then, of course, there was the incessant eve-teasing, groping and harassment.
And then, of course, there was the incessant eve-teasing, groping and harassment.
“Just because we don’t look like other Indians, people in Delhi treat us as if we’re here just for ‘fun’, as if we don’t have families,” said Geeta, who was a teacher in New Delhi.
“We call ourselves a secular country, but this has not broadened our perspective,” she added.
Geeta now works with the health department in Melbourne. “In India, there were always question marks over my personal life rather than my professional skills. In Australia, I complained against a colleague over some minor differences and the matter was swiftly taken care of without hesitation.”
Geeta now works with the health department in Melbourne. “In India, there were always question marks over my personal life rather than my professional skills. In Australia, I complained against a colleague over some minor differences and the matter was swiftly taken care of without hesitation.”
Handing out homemade coconut ladoos from a glass jar, Geeta shrugs that Indians don’t really see northeasterners as part of India.
“When you say you’re from Shillong,” she said, “the response is usually: Yeh kahaan hai? (Where’s that?) Sri Lanka?”
The attacks are a terrible occurrence, she said. “But Indian students work and travel at odd hours… youngsters and drug addicts indulge in these derogatory activities…and, sadly, Australia as a country is blamed.”
Oz 'racism' knows a class divide
Venkatesan Vembu
CNN-IBN Online News
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:14 IST
On the train from Melbourne to Sydney, the ticket examiner was in a chatty mood. "Vembu, Vembu," he enunciated, reading my surname from the chart. "So, where would you be from?" I told him I was Indian - and waited for his jaw to drop. It did, right on cue!
"You don't look Indian," he blurted out. And perhaps realising how politically (and chromatically) incorrect that might sound, he laughingly said, "I'm just teasin' you," and moved on.
That fleeting interaction reminded me of a similar experience I had had with an African-American man in a New York subway station some years ago. I'd helped him out with some directions, and he lingered to chat.
When I told him, in response to his query, that I was Indian, his eyes opened wide - and he did something entirely uncharacteristic. He reached out, pinched my ruddy forearm - I'd been out walking in the New York summer sun - and drawled with comical incredulousness, "You Indian? Getouttahere!"
The chromatic caricature of Indians as a dark-skinned people occurs fairly commonly around the world, although it's seldom explicitly mentioned in civil circles. (In any case, us Indians go to greater lengths than most others in our reverence of gori-ness!)
In the genteel and professional circles in which most Indian-Australians move and work, it's fair to say they experience no racism at all. They live in middle-class or upmarket neighbourhoods, speak with an Australian drawl, go drinking with their Aussie 'mates', and drive around in cars (and don't take the public transport); their cultural assimilation with "Australian Values" is complete.
That is why their first response, when the Indian students marched on the streets of Australian cities protesting the "racist" attacks, was to say that these were "opportunistic crimes", not manifestations of "racism".
Yet, the world in which the newly-arrived Indian 'students' (many of whom are, in fact, here not to get an education but to gain permanent residence by hook or by crook) live and work is very different from this.
Many of them come from small-town India, and have an inadequate appreciation of civilities to be observed in public spaces; in Australian cities, they live in low-income suburbia where racial bigotry runs deep; they work late nights to support themselves, and rely on the crime-infested public transport systems to get around. And in this world, they encounter fare more often the 'other half' of civil society - the drunken youth gangs, the drug addicts, the petty thieves who pilfer from the 7/11 stores manned by Indians clerks...
Even "opportunistic" mugging incidents - where Indian students are victims - often ends with a racist allusion to the colour of their skin. Which is why the 'students' feel they are victims of 'racism', whereas even Indian-Australians, who move in more refined circles, speak up in defence of the multicultural Australia they know better.
AN AD FOR A PERFUME BY BURGER KING (Seriously!)
Check out the UK's poster boy for Burger King's new meat-scented cologne, Britain's Got Talent and America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan!
The cologne, named Flame, is a "body spray of seduction, with a hint of flame-broiled meat."
Piers describes the new BK fragrance as having "a very manly smell… Flame has a hint of grilled beef but that has quite masculine connotations. It is almost like a pheromone."
The first question that came to my mind was "Why is Burger King making a fricking Perfume?"
Seriously would you buy this? Would you like to smell like a burger?
And i thought that the chocolate Axe deo was too much....
Little did i know.....
Till next time..
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Vish
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