Silence. Total darkness. Save for a circle of blinding light in the middle of the room. And at the centre of the circle of illumination a man, chained to a chair with electrodes placed all over his body.
He is naked. Stripped off all clothes.
Except for a baseball cap on his head.
It’s time we Indians stopped slavishly adapting the customs of the decadent West. Don’t we have our own sanskriti and our own heritage to live up to?
Which is why we should celebrate “Kamdev Chaturthi” instead of Valentine’s Day.
And April Fool’s Day should give way to “Ullu Divas”.
Continue reading ‘April Fool’s Day—Time To Make Some Changes’
Woof. Yes it’s me. Down here.
Hi. I am Manisha Koirala’s dog.
I hope I am not disturbing you. I just need to talk.
I am sure you have heard the term “dog’s life”. I guess it’s true for me more than any other dog. Ever.
I reacted with shock and awe on reading about an initiative to spread the love of God—a 2006 calendar ” with 12 staged photos depicting erotic scenes from the Bible.”
“There’s a whole range of biblical scriptures simply bursting with eroticism,” said Stefan Wiest, the 32-year-old photographer who took the titillating pictures.
Not being an expert on the Bible, I cannot vouch for the above assertion.
But what bothers me is what if, in an age where people are shamelessly aping the West, we also did something similar to our epics ?
A buxom lady is going to have the shoulder of her blouse torn by a bunch of marauding ruffians. Suddenly, a bottle rolls on the ground and a Man enters the screen. The ruffians ask “Who are you?” In a voice that would make the blood of tigers run cold (old jungle proverb), He says:
“Dikhne me bewada, daudne me ghoda, aur maarne me hathoda hoon main”
The man. The legend. Mithun Chakraborty. Some call him Mithun-da, most call him Prabhuji.
Mithun-da is one of my idols. I will go even further and say He is my God. I believe in Him. And like any fanatic, I am extremely impatient with some people who laugh at Him, compare Him unfavorably to Amitabh and Shahrukh Khan just because He is supposedly “down market”. I think these people should rot in Hell with 72 virgins. 40 year old male virgins that is.
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