<!--QuoteBegin-k.ram+Dec 5 2008, 06:23 PM-->QUOTE(k.ram @ Dec 5 2008, 06:23 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Has Bindi a taboo in India now? See all these anchors, reporters etc on TV, and none of them have Bindis (am assuming they are hindus, since they have hindu sounding names).[right][snapback]91426[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I have asked this question since - oh I think it was 1996 or 1997, or maybe it was 2000. I can't exactly remember which holiday it was. Anyway, my cousin back then explained to me how it was because "news has no religion" or something else psecularly 'profound'. (I'm still at <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
"News has no religion" - Except that on NDTV some advertise their christocrosses around their necks, which does not count of course, because christianism is psecularism itself (literally).
I don't care about christians wearing crosses around their necks, but why Hindus should restrict themselves/allow themselves to be restricted from doing what comes natural to them and is part of who they are (besides, they live in Bharatam where the Pottu is visible in everyday Hindu society outside of the TV) is beyond me.
"News has no religion" - Except that on NDTV some advertise their christocrosses around their necks, which does not count of course, because christianism is psecularism itself (literally).
I don't care about christians wearing crosses around their necks, but why Hindus should restrict themselves/allow themselves to be restricted from doing what comes natural to them and is part of who they are (besides, they live in Bharatam where the Pottu is visible in everyday Hindu society outside of the TV) is beyond me.