assumption that you can actually understand it in Hindi) - translates
to FACING THE TRUTH.
Apparently, a lot of people in India are indignated with this show,
especially since it is becoming fiercely popular. What a riot!!
Finally, a show to embarrass us Indians about being Indians! For all
of us who thought we were this culturally rich, morally
unquestionable, spiritually impregnable group around, now we have
something that exposes who we really are - a bunch of lying
hypocrites!
Oh, I loved seeing that respectable middle aged Indian gentleman on TV
today, bemoaning how bad this show was, and how bad its message was.
I wonder how it could have been so bad for him if he had not watched
it fully!
This program is perfect - our illusions about India need to be
eradicated, destroyed at the earliest, so we may, especially the
parenting generation may, get a grip on reality. We are the nation
where women are stripped and molested in public, bribes are paid by
people following the law, and murderers can get away if they know a
politician.
But we're sensitive about a guy voluntarily disclosing things about
his personal life for a moment of fame on TV?! COME ON!!!! We still
have elected representatives who think homosexuality is a crime, and
people who think other people's lives are their business? What is
right about this nation? We still fight over religious matters that
should never be in public domain in a secular modern democracy, we
still have dowry, and bribery and corruption, even in the armed
forces, even while buying equipment that is supposed to guard us from
destruction. We have corrupt medical infrastructure, a public health
care system that is just a bit better than being a sewer, and we're
getting sensitive about a bloody television show? WHO are these
people expressing outrage? What kind of apathy marinated coccoon are
they rolling in?
A lot of Indians suffer from the IUA syndrome. India Under Attack
Syndrome, that is. We constantly imagine we have something precious
called India and that the whole world is out to destroy it, stripping
us of our magnificent culture, denying us our moral high ground, and
cutting short our spiritual evolution. We imagine for no reason at
all that we are somehow great for sitting on our arses after being
born Indian. Even without any evidence to support this imagination,
it is contagious and constantly fuelled by us. Rampant as it may be,
imagination cannot replace factual reality.
That reality would indicate that we have one of the fastest growing
differences between rich and poor, we have one of the fastest
devastating environments, and we are one of the hardest places in the
world to do business in. In other words, there is no bloody reason
for us to reasonably hope for any one of the most important aspects of
a developed country - an equitable distribution of wealth, a
sustainable development model, or an atmosphere for growth of
opportunities. In other words, we have pretty much nothing measurable
that we can be proud of. So, what gives with this TV show? Huh?
The IUAS positive Indians imagine that all our young women are
virgins, our boys are paragons of virtue, our places of worship are
holy, and our religions make us spiritual. They also have all kinds
of reasons for our backwardness except for the one glaring truth - we
are not an uncompromising, truthful, excellence loving people. It is
amazing that we have so much self respect. God, we must set some low
standards!
We do not embrace reality, but constantly spread mere notions as truth
about our country. Where is the bloody evidence? Our great culture
must contribute in some way to miles of railway track becoming trash
dumps, our open rivers spewing poison into the ocean with untreated
sewage, and it must certainly inform our tourists to trash every great
manifestation of nature they visit.
Let's have much more of FACING THE TRUTH please.
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