Aravind Adiga - - the outsider who calls himself an insider

LOLZ ........ ARAVIND ADIGA says :

"It's time for kannadigas to stand up....... he feels sad tht so many ppl talk to him in Hindi and not in

Kannada....... he feels ppl of karnataka are forgetting about its culture and excepts everyone migrating to

karnataka to learn kannada and help promote it ......."

All this coming from a person, whose family migrated to Australia in hopes of better future for the family, who has

a booker prize for a novel written in English (not kannada) , he writes in English (again not kannada) dailies, he

stays in Mumbai( wht better place than the economic capital where fame is just a few steps away) and not in

Karnataka.

In his Journalistic career, he did interview Donald Trump, but I never heard @ him interviewing any of Karnataka's

great ppl (I am sure there are many here who did a lot for the country as well as the state).

I really feel disgusted whn these ppl enjoy the luxuries of a high society but the want the common man to be always

attached to the roots, never come up in life. I am sure this man would never allow his kids to go a regional medium

school. He himself went to the best convents and best schools abroad.

I would like to ask him how much has he contributed to the spread of Kannada when he was in Australia or when he

was in the USA. He wants the working class here who have migrated in search of jobs to take time out and learn a

new language. Learning is never a harm , but shoving it down everyones throat ??? Now, that's our beloved

democracy. isn't it ? ??

We have atleast one such IDIOT from everywhere in our country......... who can only think small, can think of only segregations and not unifying.

All this has been written by him in a Times of India Edition for 18th October 2010, he starts off taling @ the political situation in Karnataka, then goes on to talk @ the financial inflow in the state, then the language problem , corruption and keeps hitting off tangent with every single paragraph of his article. In the end, I assume he himself wasn't sure of what he was writting about. I am surprised that such a known daily newspaper of our country allowed such an article to be published.

Was it because he is a Booker Prize winner and it would insult his intelligence if the article would have been edited or sreened a couple of times?

With great power comes greater responsibility, seems we haven't yet understood the exact meaning of this phrase..............

"Barbaad Gulistaan karne ko ek hi ullo khaafi tha,
Yahaan Har shaak par ek ullo baitha hain,
Kyaa Hoga haal - e Hindustan ? "

- -- - Just Another MANGO MAN ...........

YEH MERA INDIA

Y M I ? or shud I say "why am I? " A good pun used by the latest arrival in theatres.

Yeh Mera India deals with the lives of several Indians residing in Mumbai. The movie starts with their lives being shown as different stories and slowly but gradually they are all connected, thread by thread. Some really hard hitting moments, some tragic scenes, but all very close to the realities of life.

As the movie progresses, you wonder how is the script-writer going to end a movie with so many characters, all them an importance part. But, hats off for the superb ending.

Superb acting, excellent shayaries (thankfully no songs), and good dialogues, all make this one of the few good movies in recent times. If we had "A Wednesday" and " Mumbai Meri Jaan" last year, this year we surely have "YMI" this year. What were called offbeat movies in the yesteryears are now part of the mainstream and reaching out to masses.

N. Chandra makes a comeback with YMI after a long time since his Pratighaat and Ankush.

This movie did not make me cry anywhere, but it surely did make me think . . . of the consequences of an event and the mental block it creates in our minds.

Go, watch this movie, feel proud as well as think how we Indians truly are at our very cores . . . .

JAI HIND ! !