{"id":382,"date":"2004-09-15T06:36:37","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T11:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=382"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"welcome_to_real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/welcome_to_real\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"AnishShroff.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/AnishShroff.jpg\" width=\"143\" height=\"149\" border=\"0\" align=left hspace=20 \/>\nDesis have begun competing in reality shows with a vengeance: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000286.html\">Raj Bhakta<\/a> on <i>The Apprentice,<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000325.html\">Julie Ann Titus<\/a> on <i>America&#8217;s Next Top Model,<\/i> and now <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.iliad.com\/finalists\/as.html\">Anish Shroff<\/a> on <i>Dream Job,<\/i> a competition to be the next ESPN SportsCenter anchor (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/superjagjit\">Jagjit<\/a>). Shroff is a 22-year-old Yankees fan and radio sports announcer, a Syracuse University graduate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/entertainment\/poststandard\/index.ssf?\/base\/entertainment-8\/1095153575297722.xml\">from Bloomfield, NJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/movieweb.com\/movies\/reviews\/review.php?film=727&#038;review=185\">Thuggee leader<\/a> Amrish Puri on <i>Fear Factor<\/i> and backstabbing Bollyistas on <i>Real World,<\/i> though young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmcritic.com\/misc\/emporium.nsf\/0\/26277ddb360f803c88256d0500127d63?OpenDocument\">Neil Kadakia<\/a> of <i>Spellbound<\/i> qualifies under fear and loathing on film.<\/p>\n\n<p>Maybe this will be the next topic of <strike>competition<\/strike> conversation between desi moms: &#8216;My Twinkle was just on <i>American Idol<\/i> last week.&#8217; &#8216;That&#8217;s nothing, my Sweetie was on <i>Survivor.<\/i>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n<p>Ah, who am I kidding. With all due respect to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saja.org\/harisreenivasan.html\">Hari Sreenivasan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/anchors_reporters\/gupta.sanjay.html\">Dr. Sanjay Gupta<\/a>, the most common desis on American TV will probably be on <i>Beat the Geeks<\/i> and <i>Jeopardy.<\/i> You&#8217;ll have to watch CNN International to catch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/anchors_reporters\/rajpal.monita.html\">Monita Rajpal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/zapatopi.net\/daljit.html\">Daljit Dhaliwal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/anchors_reporters\/verjee.zain.html\">Zain Verjee<\/a>. BBC World has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcworld.com\/content\/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=135\">at least six more<\/a>, and the UK&#8217;s Channel 4 is rife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desis have begun competing in reality shows with a vengeance: Raj Bhakta on The Apprentice, Julie Ann Titus on America&#8217;s Next Top Model, and now Anish Shroff on Dream Job, a competition to be the next ESPN SportsCenter anchor (thanks, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/welcome_to_real\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}