North East India?
A lot of you (mostly from the subcontinent) may be watching this program on Zee TV called Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. For the uninformed (I don't blame you) this a musical comptetion on TV where viewers get to choose their favorite singer.
Of late there has been a big hue and cry about the leading vote getter, Debojit. The issue, according to many, is that he is getting most of his votes from just one part of the country (the north-eastern part of India). It went to such an extent that in one episode three of the runner ups (till that stage of voting) staged an apparent walkout in protest. They were allegedly being threatened by ULFA to leave in order to ensure Debojit's victory. That begs the question: doesn't ULFA have anything better to do? Do they hang up their guns every Friday night, light a bonfire in the jungles of upper Assam and switch on their TV to watch who is winning this stupid programme?
Methinks that at the core of this issue lies the generally flawed perception of what is India (or atleast what it should be). North east India does not count as India in the minds of many people. Where were all of you when winners of Indian Idol and yet another stupid reality musical on Sony had winners completely based on regional votes?
May be thats why we have so many terrorists coming from that part of the country - you don't like them, why would they like you?
Curb your enthusaim folks, show some restraint - just like you want to stand up and be counted allow the others to be counted too. As for Debojit, I never voted for him but I will now just to prove a point.
Of late there has been a big hue and cry about the leading vote getter, Debojit. The issue, according to many, is that he is getting most of his votes from just one part of the country (the north-eastern part of India). It went to such an extent that in one episode three of the runner ups (till that stage of voting) staged an apparent walkout in protest. They were allegedly being threatened by ULFA to leave in order to ensure Debojit's victory. That begs the question: doesn't ULFA have anything better to do? Do they hang up their guns every Friday night, light a bonfire in the jungles of upper Assam and switch on their TV to watch who is winning this stupid programme?
Methinks that at the core of this issue lies the generally flawed perception of what is India (or atleast what it should be). North east India does not count as India in the minds of many people. Where were all of you when winners of Indian Idol and yet another stupid reality musical on Sony had winners completely based on regional votes?
May be thats why we have so many terrorists coming from that part of the country - you don't like them, why would they like you?
Curb your enthusaim folks, show some restraint - just like you want to stand up and be counted allow the others to be counted too. As for Debojit, I never voted for him but I will now just to prove a point.
posted by Deep at
10:40 AM
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Why? Why is there a flawed perception of what is India? I sometimes think it is our disunity as a nation that brought the Mughals here and after that the British.
Perhaps this isn't one country. It's probably many countries trying to be one - hiding behind the now stale adage - 'unity in diversity'.
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