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 Bollywood Reacts to Mumbai SiegePosted on Nov 29, 2008
The Indian metropolis of Mumbai is well-known for its prolific entertainment industry, a.k.a. “Bollywood.” Following the recent terror seige, India’s entertainment community responded to the attacks, which claimed the life of at least one of its (international) members.
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By Joe Franks, December 4, 2008 at 8:11 am Link to this comment
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Blackspeare, what do you mean by “vigorous”? I fear it has something in common with those advising India to fashion a “hard” response and not be “soft”.
Most important to recognize amid all of this, is that the death toll of 195 in these attacks was small change for India. This is terrifyingly vulgar to say; but more relevantly, true. India grinds through 6,000 children’s lives every day due just to hunger; and these are just kids. Adults, as you might imagine, needlessly die too. Fuck, if Bombay was following the annual average from 2002-2003, it would take just two weeks for the Bombay train system to kill as many people as died in these attacks. But what makes these attacks such a big deal is that these weren’t just a bunch of Adivasis (also known as “tribals” in India) dying out in the countryside. A good number of the victims of this attack were rich enough to afford a night’s stay at the Taj or Oberoi, which costs more than two years’ wages for the vast majority of Indians. (Praise be to the Free Market!) This, and the fact that the attack can be used as a pretext for war against Pakistan or (more) pogroms against Indian Muslims, means that the victims were actually important. To a Hindofascist, after all, to be that rich one must have been saintlier than Nathuram Godse, Ghandi’s Hindofascist assassin, in one’s previous life.
So now, according to leading intellectuals in New Delhi and Bollywood, Pakistan and Muslims must pay. Which is why the tragedy of of “26/11” has yet to begin.
Report thisBy Ashino Sushanti, December 1, 2008 at 7:42 pm Link to this comment
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The Mumbai desaster didn’t surprised me much. It was just a matter of time when such an tragic incident would have appeared. While the world including TRUTHdig loves bashing China for Tibet, yet often wrong on historic facts and quite naive on backgrounds, history and political agendas of Mr. Lama(Dalai), this very same world keeps the silence alive and ignores almost completly the sad, cruel as well brutal reality of India’s bloody occupation of Kashmir. Why!! What does make the difference? No shiny Dalai, isn’t it the fact. Just muslims. Tell me TRUTHdig why you haven’t released any article on numbers of casualties, torture, missing persons, racisim, the state of a massive and rowdy oppresion of the muslim majority by Indian miitary means in Kashmir??!! According to AI, Asian Center for HR, HRW over 80.000 people have been killed in Kashmir since the conflict has started. Many experts believe those numbers just the tip of the iceberg!! Tens of thousands civilans have gone missing. Where are they? On a daily basis India breaks even basic human wrights. Torture is rampant there. It’s an absolute shame!! All those who must suffer in indian occupied Kashmir have been neglected for years. Unfortunately stands TRUTHdig for no exception. No outcries, no pressure, no puplic condemnation but instead an awful lot of HYPOCRISY. I’m not a asian, because my name may suggest so, I’m German but I’ve been living and working for more than 10 years in India & China. As an supervisor for charity work I do work in Tibet but also in Kashmir. So, I’m very well informed. I’m appalled by the cold indifference of the press and western goverments around the world. It’s right to pressure China on human rights in Tibets, but by far it’s such a mendaciousness to turn a blind eye on crimes against humanity, Indian’s state terror, in Kashmir.
Report thisBy Blackspeare, December 1, 2008 at 6:33 pm Link to this comment
Bollywood is noted for its extravagant musicals, but this is not a time for singing! It is a time for some serious action and serious diplomacy. LeT is an off-shoot of Pakistani intelligence and no doubt certain factions within the Pakistani government are covertly supporting the financing, training, and planning of militant operations against India. It is now time for India and the world to vigorously confront Pakistan.
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