Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from November, 2020

A Suitable Boy and polarisation under the pretext of protection

So SRK can pee in a church in DDLJ. Nobody gets offended. Minor girl can be raped in a temple . Nobody gets offended. Come to think of it - Hrithik Roshan was romancing near Haji Ali in Fiza, and nobody got offended. But Hindu woman kissing a Muslim boy in a temple on-screen. THAT'S offensive! Never mind the scores of college kids who make out in empty temples anyway. Reality does not matter. If someone says it is offensive on a whim, it is! You see - it is very easy to be outraged in India for all sorts of illogical reasons. You can be outraged over someone eating beef, you can be outraged over someone kissing someone else, you can be outraged over someone writing a book, you can be outraged over a great many things. Unfortunately, when it comes to the real test where you expect outrage, that is where this country remains mute, like when a rape-victim is burnt alive in police custody on her way to testify in court. THAT can be forgotten, in fact, it's hardly noticed, if at a