01-03-2004, 01:17 AM
Thank you all so much for trying to answer my question .
Viren , May be I was a bit tactless when I made the half-naked comment.
I was trying to make the point that even beauty and attractiveness and sexyness and entertainment have been given a western patent.
I do agree with you on the 15-21 year olds are not leaders of a societey , how ever , if you look at the media they are the ones who are being projected as being the most desirable people.
My mother tounge is Tamil, but I learnt Hindi ( By watching Ramayana !!! on DD) and sanskrit at school and temple. I speak very good tamil and I love my mother tounge.
But if one looks at RAJTV, JJTV or even SUNTV ( Which is rabidly anti hindhi and self appointed gaurdian of all things dravidian ) the people who host the "entertainment" shows are picked to reflect a certain kind of "non-tamilian" aura. They cant even pronounce some some alphabets ( or may be they pretend that they cant ) cannot form a complete sentence in Tamil and cannot differentiate betwen a soft "L" and and a Hard "L".
These are the people who are being constantly being beamed to millions of Indians as being desirable citizens ( to make money...but that is not mentioned). The only reason for that is to make money for major corporations. Be it pepsi , Coke , Cadbury's, Revlon or what ever.
I HAVE NO PROBELMS WITH CORPORATIONS MAKING MONEY . Which is a necessary evil , but have a problem with us associating "non-indianness" with consumption of products.
There in lies my point. Even though there were 15-21 year olds who pretended that they have nothing to do with the Indic cuture during the 60s 70s and 80 s , the main stream societey did project genuine people as role models. Even actors for that matter , looked very ethnic. Even though we allowed the "live from London" types to pretend that they were in fact "live from London" , the mainstream did not project them as a model citizen. Infact they were trivialized and mocked in many movies and the general societey. The opposite is true now.
Viren , May be I was a bit tactless when I made the half-naked comment.
I was trying to make the point that even beauty and attractiveness and sexyness and entertainment have been given a western patent.
I do agree with you on the 15-21 year olds are not leaders of a societey , how ever , if you look at the media they are the ones who are being projected as being the most desirable people.
My mother tounge is Tamil, but I learnt Hindi ( By watching Ramayana !!! on DD) and sanskrit at school and temple. I speak very good tamil and I love my mother tounge.
But if one looks at RAJTV, JJTV or even SUNTV ( Which is rabidly anti hindhi and self appointed gaurdian of all things dravidian ) the people who host the "entertainment" shows are picked to reflect a certain kind of "non-tamilian" aura. They cant even pronounce some some alphabets ( or may be they pretend that they cant ) cannot form a complete sentence in Tamil and cannot differentiate betwen a soft "L" and and a Hard "L".
These are the people who are being constantly being beamed to millions of Indians as being desirable citizens ( to make money...but that is not mentioned). The only reason for that is to make money for major corporations. Be it pepsi , Coke , Cadbury's, Revlon or what ever.
I HAVE NO PROBELMS WITH CORPORATIONS MAKING MONEY . Which is a necessary evil , but have a problem with us associating "non-indianness" with consumption of products.
There in lies my point. Even though there were 15-21 year olds who pretended that they have nothing to do with the Indic cuture during the 60s 70s and 80 s , the main stream societey did project genuine people as role models. Even actors for that matter , looked very ethnic. Even though we allowed the "live from London" types to pretend that they were in fact "live from London" , the mainstream did not project them as a model citizen. Infact they were trivialized and mocked in many movies and the general societey. The opposite is true now.