Hindustan Bana Bannistan :P

 

• Da Vinci Code which was vetted by Vatican and the Holy Pope but was banned in India as Indian Christians felt it offending.

• Recently Shrimati Sushma Swaraj raised concern about denigration of Hindu Gods by Bollywood in Parliament.

• List of things to be banned by Indian Muslim is too long but currently they are after Vishwaroopam.

I totally fail to understand why time and again this Kolaveri Di by religious/caste group and their leaders regarding offensive content in art, motion pictures, music, literature etc which hurt their sentiments. Why don’t they just ignore contents which hurt their fragile pseudo sentiments.

I like to share an anecdote. I was very young when Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana debuted on Small TV. As a weekly ritual I use to watch this serial with my family and thoroughly enjoyed the escapades of Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman but at the same time was very scared of Mr. Ravana and his monstrous laugh which used to hurt my innocent sentiments to no end. Whenever Mr. Ravana was on TV I use to cry hoarsely, throw tantrum and demand to switch off TV. Now this serial was hugely popular in our family (which was the case with most of the Indian Family) and nobody wanted to switch off TV only because I was crying to no ends and demanding a total shutdown so instead beating shit out of me and forcing me to watch Mr. Ravana, my mommy took a very logical step. Whenever Mr. Ravana was on screen my mother diverted my attention by feeding me or asking me to chase a crow/sparrow or giving me some chores. Everybody was happy with this arrangement. I didn’t see Mr. Ravana so I was happy and my family can see Ramayana without interruption so they were happy. Similarly during my youth when I was catching up Titanic on Cable TV with my family we looked everywhere except TV when the offending nude scene came.

Now coming to recent ban on Vishwaroopam and all similar bans, I like to ask a question, are offended parties sadist that they inflict pain on themselves by watching/reading things which hurts their sensitivities or megalomaniac that they feel offended even when non-offended parties watch/read so called offending content. Come on guys…give me some break here…if you are seriously so much offended just ignore it, breathe easy and learn from one of the Gandhi’s Bandar…Bura Mat Dekho :O