Its Turd again!!!

This blog seemed to have turned into ‘meet botox turd’ site!!. I really don’t mind. The reason why Botox Turd is hauled up again is that I caught some snatches in BBC where she was interviewed, this Sunday past 10pm. I saw it for 2 or 3 minutes in gaps for sometime, since I was catching up on Kannadi- a Malayalam program, I try watching this on Sundays (although I mostly miss it since Sundays are quite busy for me and get very sleepy past nine. Kannadi is a no nonsense program and Gopakumar is one of the best in this field. This is a program that is a more refined and matured version of ‘world this week’ that used to come long long back. Prannoy -‘hamare jijaji’ for some, did a decent job there).

Turd says that she is not a practicing muslim but a cultural muslim!!. Meaning I will give credence to degrading practices (like the greatness of veil) and score brownie points but will have nothing to do with it (part of as they ‘personal choice’). This clinging on helps her and thus be a self appointed spokesperson of Muslims (attempted, atleast in mainstream media) without having anything to do with common muslims. There is lot of licking space here for Turds of the world to survive for few more decades!!. And western media are looking for some symbols (caricature would be better) to understand this country, basically it’s about huge market. Turd sure is having some freak out time post 9/11. A statement here and a line there is what she need to do. Even evangelist Friedman (of ‘World is Flat’ fame) quotes her. Things have become effortless for her. She also tells the dude from BBC that Mumbai needs slum for us to know them (meaning poor people), it makes us sensitive, is her conclusion. That’s typical turdspeak, she just has to speak and it is taken as truth for Indians!!!. We also need zoo so that we know about animals is another view. It’s all the same. So slum dwellers exist for conscience sake of people like turd, and she is here to save them. She also verdicts that delhi doesn’t have slums!! I guess the slum dwellers should now line up and make attempt on rectifying conscience of elite, the onus is on them otherwise their existence is meaningless….gandhian??! (himath deko iski). Speaking with passion is what Abdullah boy told as bed time story….what matters is speaking in front of TV and making some connections. Presto!!. Not to forget she was the second wife of the joker…oops!! That’s emancipation for you.

Tailpiece: few weeks back there was this incidence in Baroda about a monkey being arrested by police. The monkey it seems was symbolizing freedom for us!!(more on that sometime later…but yes dudes know how to get fame, media how to sensationalize and fringe element as well as city based ‘secularism’ brigade how to capitalize on non issue-they crying wolf at the drop of hat, will certainly create one….also we don’t need lessons about secularism from saffron brigade or city based secularism pretenders-mostly market initiated. With market around, painters needn’t be seen as representing ideal, good joke that one). But the interesting thing was this woman Anjolie Ela Menon who was hopping from one studio to another (this time I will save the world), she was spewing as if world is coming to an end!!. This blogger has no like or dislike for her painting, it’s rather pretentious the multicolor faces she paints. Being not as famous as she would want to be, this was her chance. Nothing wrong you just have to move the arse from one studio to another in friendly neighbourhood, the world does get saved!!.
There are millions of homeless in this country and in cities like Delhi millions sleep on streets and footpath. Even this blogger had to struggle to get a foothold during the initial period of stay. So what do you say about people who keep flats (rooms) empty and locked right in the middle of the teeming city….i would say it is vulgar if not criminal. That is Anjolie woman for you she has kept her flat locked for years now, wherein people eke out living in very limited space, sometimes whole joint family living in a room like in places like Regairpura (to take example from Delhi). I really am astounded sometimes by the behavior of rich people in this country. Forget crying for secularism woman like her should be whacked…..they don’t get the point otherwise, complacency has eaten into them. They don’t understand what it means to have a decent place to stay, to have place to sleep and privacy. What they know is how to save the world, particularly by teaching us secularism and big talk. Maybe like Botox Turd she could act in some dukhi atma movie (well it is not difficult to catch award wining directors…with her background. They come to collect awards in delhi, we trap them there…it’s so easy) and save us from the bad world!!. Sab ke sab saale janwar. Secularism sikhane chale. It unbelievable that people could degrade to this extent, I guess she is just trying to score points in the pecking order of art market…controversy makes business sense.

Let’s get the record right: Indian society at the common people level is most secular and democratic in its outlook and expression (even at subconcious level we believe other religion Gods as our own) despite its poverty and history of oppression, invasions and patriarchy. It’s an amazing aspect of this society, the faith in democracy. In west it was modernity fuelled by technology that brought ideas of secularism, even then till recently they were racist. Secularism in India is mainly because of Hindus, there should not be any doubt on that one. It’s an inbuilt idea. Yes there are problems there are pockets of intolerant people but India can never be a theocratic state or talibanised, it’s against the nature of Hindu society. It is friction with organized religions (and market) in context to political positioning is where the disaster is, the ideas of fundamentalism initiates here. Another is dismissive nature of elite and their west bound outlook. There seems to be a tendency in elite circle to ridicule Hindus, like for instance Hindu rate of growth (in economics) or calling India as ‘unlikely democracy’ (meaning what these people know about democracy), nothing but arrogance and lack of rootedness, or the sardarji who praised emergency (and got Padma award!!) recites gayathri mantram for his bowel movement (to take a recent example from Net. I am told his irreverence makes him endearing, also collection of demented bad jokes. Even President took time to drop in!! )…well Hindus don’t mind taking these, how about saying something on Koran on these lines. I guess he will loose his secular tag. These are very few examples, ridiculing hindus is how elite has been defining itself since colonial period, with market needs in recent times things have become only worse. It is not an exaggeration but the contribution of this section feeding fringe groups and thus defining themselves (with media help) and on polarisation in society is not insignificant. In the end these theatrics, playing to audience on both sides only makes matter worse for us common people in the streets, we are the one who suffer the most (and yes Turd is a Gandhian!!).World has changed rapidly in last decade or so, its futile to push Hindus only, veil issue, Danish cartoons have shown the hypocrisy of Indians who masquerade as ‘secular’ …..more on this sometime later!!