What has happened to Indian American media culture? Just yesterday it seemed like things were going so well. Indian Americans were winning Jeopardy semifinals, patrolling the streets of Kabul, and getting cast as genetics professors with supernatural powers on network television. And there’s even talk that Indian American women are much in demand on the U.S. dating scene (the talk has been generated by journalists in India, but never mind!).
But then there was KaavyaGate, which got so big that President Bush was forced to address both Houses of Congress to condemn the evils of “Plagierrorism,” and suddenly everyone was looking at us like we’re all plagiarists. And now they’re debating requiring “Plagiarism free” biometric certification cards for all future immigrants from the Indian subcontinent with literary ambitions, and … well, people are freaked. As far as assimilation goes, the Indian American community is evidently back to ground zero square one.
By contrast, folks in India seem to have a much healthier relationship to important issues like religion, plagiarism and the entertainment industry. There are now religious shrines for the ‘Visa Mata’ as well as for a pressure cooker that sacrificed its life pressure to save an army platoon from a heat-seeking missile. Both of these are clearly important facets of India’s world famous spiritual masala, which the post-eminent pop songstress Britney Spears has been known to dabble with, though she has apparently not yet heard of the obscure mystical sect called “Hinduism.”
But by far the most important thing happening in India is the government’s relentless drive to stand up for what is right in the face of pseudo-secularist cinematic sleaze. And I’m not talking about how Muslims and Christians have banded together to suppress the Indian release of The Da Vinci Code; indeed, I’m actually a little confused about why a film that shows albino priests doing sinister things is so offensive. (Personally, I find the plot a little ludicrous — I doubt many Americans will be interested in such a far-fetched story! Well, at least it’s original) No, I’m actually referring to the blasphemous piece of trash known as Tickle My Funny Bone, the story of a “naughty, bold, and sexy nun.” Thank the Visa Mata that the Censor Board is on the case to protect Indian sorta-secularism from the ravages of Bollywood Nunsploitation.
From AMFD’s comment it is quite likely Spoorlam and AMFD are the same. Probably made the classical mistake made by people with multiple handles faking multiple personality, by making the post with the wrong handle.
cad aunty ji, #100
and then of course you can psycho analyze the candidates based on what optional questions they choose to answer.
bytewords:
Yes! All in the service of SM, of course*!!
*For a small fee, I will gladly share my psychoanalysis of candidates based on the optional answers that they provide with the interested party.
Al_M_f_D is being humourous in a sarcastic and ironic kinda way 😉
I am, however, glad that he mentioned the word “deflowered” in his fake tirade. What a fantastic word. I think it should be SM’s “Word of the Week”, and I am going to use it here as much as possible, to supplement my other favourites “Saucy Wench” and “Happy ending”.
CAD — there was actually a 55/nanofiction thread a little while ago focusing on fake biodata for SM commenters. It was quite funny — you should do a ‘search’ here and check it out if you haven’t done so already.
Ouch that’s rough CAD. You might be assuming things because the Mutineers you think are in need of a desi soulmate may already have one.
Janeofalltrades:
True, true, very true. But certainly not ALL Mutineers are already hooked up?! This is where the SMShaadi steps in!
It was pretty interesting watching this sidebar discussion morph…
and interesting that there was an entirely different vein of comments posted about this at http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/15/heightened-craving-for-desi-babes/
and the mandatory me-too post at http://pocobrat.blogspot.com/2006/05/on-desi-women-and-their-rumored-sexual.html
To address some of the confusion from the Grey’s Anatomy postings (by Lavanya, Taz, and Sahej) from early on…
*SENDHIL RAMAMURTHY was a guest star on the very first episode of the show (aired on March 27, 2005). Here is Sendhil’s IMDB page: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0707983/
*SUNKRISH BALA was the patient who was unable to get rid of his erection (his episode aired eight months later on November 27, 2005). Here is Sunkrish’s IMDB page: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1726993/
*ANJUL NIGAM (who none of you have mentioned) has so far appeared in six episodes of the show as Dr. Raj Prabhu Here is Anjul’s IMDB page: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0631413/