What if Oprah Winfrey think so?

Oprah Winfrey sucks; I mean, how can she say that most Indians eat with hands still. She is rude, she is snobbish, arrogant, pretentious......and the rest of the words are censored (As i ve not found out their meanings yet). Alright, i will give the background of what happened, for those of you, who don't have as much time to waste as i do;

Oprah winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist (Wiki's definition of her). During her visit to India she commented, rather obnoxiously(why should this word come here?) that Indians still use hands to eat. This has become the latest fodder for the starving media, that even Anna Hazare and his antics have taken a back seat.

Two days ago, i read an article from a friend about how Americans still ask insane questions like, "Do you travel in a bullock cart?", "Do you study under moon light?", "Do you still live with the same husband?"; You get the drift right? Questions, thinking that we live in the times of snake charmers. My friend looked hurt, and there are many who has commented on that article, who are deeply hurt too!

My question is, what if? what if Oprah winfrey thinks we eat with hands? Let her even think we eat using our legs. What if, Americans think we don't understand English? what if American's think we are still in the palaeolithic age? Is it going to change the way we live? Or  will it at least change the way they think? even if, so what?

I mean, why should we be hurt if some American, sitting some where, thinks some non sense, about our country? If you think some things need to be changed in our country, jolly good change them; Else just shut up! Whining about what others think, worse still, using filthy language to describe them, does not reflect us in good light! 


And by the way who is Oprah Winfrey after all?

 

The Anna Rhetoric!

The tricolour will be out again; The name 'Gandhi' will be heard again (When i was in school that happened once a year on october 2nd); Passionate Indians will have their bloods boil; I'm Anna, I'm India voice (Or is it a noice?) will be heard again; Saintly Indian's biggest enemy 'The politicians' will be targeted and that horrible word 'corruption' will become Arnab Goswami's favourite word again.
 
No, No, No, please! don't eat anything. An old man in his 70s is fasting, why can't you fast? fast for the country? If not you, then who? If not now, when? This is the second revolution, and we will surely save the country from the money sucking politicians. Lokpal! Lokpal will do wonders. Lokpal, will make the country clean. Lokpal, will make sure that the next generation will search the oxford dictionary to get corruption's meaning. Ah, the rhetoric!

Sorry for not making any sense. The movement has not made any sense to me, then, how can you expect me to make any sense?

This entire thing looks so very vague to me. I mean, how can one lakh Indians who have copied in exams, broken queue's to get first, given bribe's to escape traffic police, paid money to buy college seats, Cheat in every other way in our daily works for every single penny, want their leaders to be saints? 

Good for a movement to have brought the disease of corruption on to the centre stage. But for the disease to be eradicated, lokpal is not the solution. The solution is you and me. For you and me to stop giving bribe's, to stop cheating in taxes, to stop showing wrong bills to get claims, to stop lying to bosses;

Till that happens, singing Vande maataram and swinging Indian flags wildly can give goose bumps; but cannot stop politicians (Our leaders) from becoming corrupt

The world of children!

"Then I forgot the colour because I don't know what colour the green colour is! It has to be green, then it is not green; it is possibly red, yet it is not red; it is possibly yelllaau, it is yellaau" said my sister's son explaining the star wars. His eyes were filled with wonder! " what is there to laugh about" he admonished his mother. For him, being taped explaining star wars is a seriously serious issue. Welcome to the serious world of kids.

Then there was this 5 year old kid of one other cousin who was seriously confused on how to find his girl, just like the way his dad has found his mom, in a world so full of girls? Ha, there was this girl all of five years who asked her mom, why she is not wearing her Thaali? And yes of course, the next question followed, "what if some uncle marry you"? Jeez! Kids and their world of questions!

Did I tell you about my cousins children who comes once a year from Dubai? And did I say they jump up and down for five full minutes just at the sight of me. They just jump without their own knowledge. I mean, they are just happy, plain and simple! They run around the house and I run behind them, and it will be another half an hour before the excitement settles down. Wow! The exciting world of kids!

I was once telling a story to my favourite kid. "Little johnny got up, aaaannnndddd walked to the dooooorrrrrrr and opennnnnnedddddd the dooooorrrrrr"; His mouth wide open and his eyes filled with wonder, little O, listened with rapt attention. The wonder filled world of children!

Why was I in such a hurry to grow up? If only I had known then, the world of kids!