Tellychakkar profiling Parakh Madan – the lead of Star One‘s new show Saathi Re
, “I play a girl next door- simple, calm, mature and docile who belongs to a Gujarati family. She’s an ideal take-home bahu who respects her family. She all about what girls should be like.
Take home as opposed to what – the mind boggles at the thought
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With defenders like this, Islam does not need any enemies!
The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organisation of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a web forum saying the pontiff and the west were “doomed”. The message, the authenticity of which could not be immediately verified, said: “We shall continue our holy war and never stop until God enables us to chop your necks and raise the fluttering banner of monotheism when God’s rule is established governing all people and nations.”
As a polytheist who especially believes in the mother goddess – would i be a target, i wonder?
How about an athiest – would they be included in all this neck chopping.
How about agnostics or animists (and i must admit that there are times that i am one)
I am not really sure that i like the idea of some idiot somewhere threatening to impose his world /religious / theocratic view on me ….
i really would like to see the same level of protest against this statement as there was against Pope Benedict‘s speech. I really respect the way that the Indonesians and the Malaysians have reacted to this entire fracas – I wish that the middle east and indeed India can learn from them. There is a way of protesting with dignity without calling for heads, necks and other body parts – and in that the countries of South East Asia are leading the way. It is sad that the? Muslim leadership in India (if it can be called that) is busy looking at kowtowing to the Arabs in general and the Saudi’s in particular when they should be actually building bridges with Indonesia and Malaysia and form a common front against those who wish to hijack Islam for their own petty gains.
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I have been following Pope Benedict utterances on Islam in various media. His seeming endorsement of the view that Islam spread through the sword, had some of us across the world choking with anger, many of us choking with the sheer embarassment of a Head of State being an utter idiot, and some others of us choking with chortles of guffaws. Mine was actually a combination of all theree.
Anger – because in an already polarised world – a head of state and a head of religion has no business behaving like an absolute idiot. While people are dying of hunger, women getting raped for getting educated, people dying of AIDS while organised religion demands prevention of sex education rather than prevention of AIDS, where women still believe that burning themselevs to death with their husband is required, quoting some bigot from the 14th century to stir the pot of bigotry seems to be a good way to divert attention from the issues. After all, we must accept that all fundamentalists have a common agenda. And this current Pope is probably as fundamentalist as any of them. And I define a fundamentalist view as one that believes his/her way is superior to all others and consequently all other views are inferior to his/her’s.
Embarassment - because this kind of stupidity is horrifyingly embarassing. It is like watching a Ben Stiller film or Kareena Kapoor trying to ape a Helen in Don. A kind of horrified fascination as to how much lower can it sink – and they show you 
. I have been following the Pope‘s condoms cause aids’ logic and his abortionists are sinners thread – but this is by far the most embarassing in its stupidity. It is a bit like quoting the Nazis to describe the allies in the second world war – after all the 14th century was a period of war between the ‘civilizations’.
Amusement because I love it when the pot calls the kettle black. The sheer gall and hypocrisy of his statement made me chuckle. How does the Pope think that Christianity in general, and Catholicism in particular, spread. What did he think that the armies of Spain and Portugal did in South and Central America and in whose name; what did he think that happened in Europe between the time Charlamagne converted and the begninig of the Crusades, what did he think happened in Africa – enslaving a people because they are heathen and then coverting them, and what about the rights of Jews in Christian Europe – even before the 1930′s! And what was his own Church’s position when it came to the Holocaust or even women’s rights, or in the fight against AIDS. Or indeed to knowledge, science and human rights. If left to the Church – Europe would still be in the dark ages, women would still be barefoot, perpetually pregnant and in the kitchen and there would still be the Divine Right of Kings.
If it comes to a choice of organised religions – there is not much to choose from. They all have their moments of glory, compassion, wisdom and caring and long centuries of just the opposite. The Pope’s attempt to score brownie points – in this context – is simply stupid.
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This series is about the disappearance of something – religious faith. Its the story of what is often referred to as athiesm – the history of the growing convinction that God does not exist….
Thus begins the 3 part BBC series – the Brief History of Disbelief. Worth watching.
Its’ primarily the story of disbelief in a western anglo saxon context – and Johathan Miller is a fantastic guide. With his trademark dry wit, intellegence and condensation – hear him dismiss animation and receations as ‘vulgur’ – he leads us through the history of Western Disbelief – from the ancient Greeks to Thomas Paine, from the role of the Church to the role of leading thinkers.
A Brief History of Disbelief – a well crafted series. A much more detailed review after a second viewing.
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SK gifted me a World Space for my last birthday – and it is probably one of the best gifts i have ever received.
Right now, am listening to Radio Gandharva’s – the Hindustani Classical Music Channels’ tribute to a classical Asha Bhonsle. Some superb stuff. Yesterday was an incredible recording from Kumar Gandharva. And a couple of weeks earlier a divine Bhimen Joshi.
Last night was a wonderful long version of Dave Brubeck’s take 5 on RIFF. And sometime last week was Joh Coltrane at his mesmerizing best
And then for fans of old Hindi Songs there is Farishta, there is KL Radio for Tam stuff.
All in all well worth the 1800 bucks per annum subscription – and the joys of not listening to anything that you don’t want to.
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There are few days in Mumbai like this, when the skies are blue and cloudless – and the suns shimmers through (as opposed to blazes down) on us. Today was one such day. Great Day and a great full moon 
And this a cloud free moon rise. 
I photograph a lot while commuting – anything that catches my eye. Here are some from the daily commute
children playing on the street. My car was stuck at the signal and these were like a few feet away. And they seemed to be having a ball.
This was again at the traffic signal – somewhere near andheri subway. There was this guy whose face was lived in and whom the light favoured – so clck.
And then there is this – possibly one of my own personal favourites
On the day of the Mumbai blasts.
My experience with clicking on the street has been positively positive . No one has objected so far – in fact people end up asking me to take their pictures.
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