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'Shah Rukh is not the biggest star, he is just another actor'
E-mail from readers the world over
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:47:19 +0400 He deserves to be called 'Arjun Bhatia' -- supported by Krishna (the people and press in this case). India needs more people like him and less like the ones who sought to get him out. Congratulations, Sir!
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:26:24 -0400 This was one of the best articles (not written by Rajeev Srinivasan) that I have read on your site. It is amazing how China rules over the US today. I have been living in the US for a few years now, and anything and everything we touch in our daily lives is "Made in China". I usually joke around that even the US government is "Made in China" -- many Americans (read "Whites" agree with me, with shame). Everyday Chinese "mischief" is reported in the US -- stealing secrets, funding Clinton's campaign, ever increasing American trade deficit with China... still Clinton (America is actually helpless) can't do anything because of American business lobby pressure. I read and article by a respected MSNBC author recognising this fact and terming it a "Faustian relationship" with China -- you buy from us and we'll ignore your human rights record and other issues. Also China has mastered the art of never going on the defensive (I read this in Rajeev Srinivasan's article long time back). Whenever the US opens its mouth about human rights, China releases statement on US's own dismal minorities rights...state police butchering of blacks in New York, everyday targeting of blacks in southern US like Texas -- and next day everything is back to normal. No US statements then. Indians on the other hand have a habit of going on the defensive for every small finger pointed at it. One Christian killed out of 23 million people and the Indian press went after the Indians themselves. It is a good thing that we are more self-conscious, that is what makes us so great, but to represent ourselves in true light we have to advertise our better things to the world. Otherwise when NATO/Western countries bomb India/Kashmir like Yugoslavia/Kosovo (don't you see the amazing similarity? From inside you may not see it but that is what the US is slowly building up as public opinion - India of course being a "Hindu militant nation"), India is going to find itself out of favour in international public opinion. A suggestion: The Western press has made a habit of referring to India as "Hindu nation" or "...having nuclear ambitions...," BJP as "Hindu nationalist," Sonia as "Italian Born," Mother Teresa as "Albanian born from Calcutta" and end every article referring to India with "....has fought three wars with Pakistan in last 50 years" -- Why doesn't the Indian press refer to Bill Clinton as "sex scandal scarred" or "impeached president" or "Chinese funded" and refer to US as "...has initiated 6 international wars in the last four years" or "the only country to have used nuclear weapons on human beings..." or "...creators (CIA) of international terrorists and rouges like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussain...". I think you owe it to India. Bedi
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:27:51 -0800 It is very sad to read the chat transcript of Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat. I am very depressed to see a soldier talking baselessly like a seasoned communist politician. I am particularly upset about his baseless charges about organisations to which the prime minister belongs. When asked about his "first hand experience" of any communal act about the prime minister or the home minister, he evaded the answer and instead of giving any "first hand" information, he started lying. Doesn't he know that Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by Nathuram Godse who had nothing to do with Sangh Parivar? Doesn't he know that the RSS was banned at that time but when it turned out that it was not part of any conspiracy, the ban was lifted? If he believes that any of the Sangh organisations were involved then like a soldier why doesn't he name the organisations? Is it because he knows if he names the organisation knowing it is false then he will face charges? When he is talking about 1942, did communists take part in it? What an ignorant person we had as Admiral! Which organisation was started by the Britishers? Does he know that RSS founder was involved in revolutionary activities then in Congress? Does he know that Dr Hedgewar was arrested for 'Jungle satyagrah'? Does he know that the Britishers had banned the RSS in 1930s for anti-British activities? Does he know that the British government issued circulars banning RSS volunteers in government positions? Isn't it true that Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat and his wife are communists? Isn't it the communist party which took an anti-India stand during the Chinese aggression? I would like the Admiral to be courageous and talk about it like a straight soldier not like politicians, who hide and shoot in the dark and create confusion. Khanderao
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:52:25 -0400 I have been reading your column for more than a year now. I come to the Rediff site just to read you. You are the best. Keep up the good work. Akash
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:02:15 -0800 I dream of India being a country where the remotest villages are connected by e-mail and Internet facilities. This may be one of the genuine steps taken by Uptron with Koshika. The conception of the idea is superb. Now the implementation. Hope this will also be exemplary. Keep up the effort. With best regards to all involved with the project.
Kalyan Bhattacharya
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:15:22 -0600 Even though this removes cross subsidy in telecom, it could have been better to retain the current STD rates and lessen the percentage of increase in local calls. This would definitely hit the common man and this is a steep increase anybody would have expected. But if we consider the overall picture, this increase must have been done after careful analysis, so I am not questioning this. At the same time the telecom sector should ensure proper customer service and maintenance of the telephone lines. The word 'bribery' should be taken out of the telecom industry... this starts from the ordinary lineman to get a simple equipment fixed to a manager to get a telephone connection.
Satish Gurumurthy
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:28:55 PST It's really sad news that local call rates are going up when it should have been the reverse. It's very important for the local call rates to come down so that more and more users can make use of the Internet. The IT industry is providing a lot of revenue so its infrastructure should be taken into consideration. A flat rate system for local calls would be appreciated. Ramesh T
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 01:18:01 -0400 Thanks for publishing such an interview. Kindly try and repeat similar kind of interview[s] with other class players in the world, not only the players who are currently playing but also senior players who have retired from international and first class arena. Such interviews will be of better fuel to upcoming young players. Rahul was mentioning if you take the human element out of the game then it's going to be just a boring game. If one can apply professionalism then the game can be made still interesting, because if you apply a human element to the game then there are more chances that your level of concentration might go down to a greater extent. One can take a typical example of Aamir Sohail hitting Venkatesh Prasad in the previous ball to a fence, and getting out in the successive delivery. This is a typical example of applying the human element. It doesn't mean here that one should not apply the human element, but to what extent rather the percentage highly matters. It is highly appreciable that a player applies professionalism while on the ground, which will help to keep himself cool and develop more concentration towards the game, thereby one can rectify mistakes that a player is committing on the field. Sethu
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:44:19 -0700 Just to point out something, Karan Johar forgot Virasat, a film completely set in a rural backdrop which was the third biggest hit of '97.
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:50:13 PDT First of all, awesome feature, secondly, yes filmi relatives, sons and daughters of heroes and heroines get a better chance of entering the industry. One reason why most of today's heroes are full of junk. I mean Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Kapoor, and sorry to his fans but EVEN Akshaye Khanna has NO talent. I can entertain 100 times better than these so called "heroes". But I have no filmi connection.
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 13:49:28 -0800 I think you are making too much of Shah Rukh Khan. He is not the biggest star the industry has, he is just another actor. Salman Khan, Aamir Khan also have legions of fans. When you can bracket three actors into one category you should talk about the category not the actor. Shah Rukh Khan is good but Salman is just as good if not better with three consecutive hits (four if you count KKHH). The point is the article makes no sense since Shah Rukh Khan is one of many while someone like Amitabh Bachchan was and is one in a billion; a legend to put it mildly. Shah Rukh Khan is not even one billionth of that.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:59:11 -0500 Well, I thought Jatin-Lalit's inclusion was justifiable but that of Annu Malik for best music director... puhleeease!!! What exactly are we talking about here? Most prolific? I really don't think any of them deserves to stand up to A R Rehman as far as creative music goes. Prolific, maybe considering that ARR does only one Hindi movie a year but is more creative. Well, that is a different issue, including talented music directors like Vishal against AR Rehman would still have made sense but Anu Malik, I am sorry although I did like his music in Border. Please take care to treat a subject like this in depth and from a critic's point of view, instead of pandering to the masses with the obvious titles of "best" etc which are really very misleading and not founded on any true indicator of talent or creativity, but are rather just dictated by the box office. If a film does well, it is an assured fact that the music also is advertised on the various media to such an extent that of course, it becomes "popular," however common sounding or a plain rehash it may be. Anyways, you might have gauged by now that I am a die-hard Rehman fan and for good reason!!! Bala
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 11:01:23 -0800 Three cheers to Mr Banker! I fully agree with his fulminations about Indian English versus vernacular language books. I just wanted to point out one more source of translations of Indian language books in English. Macmillan India has a series called 'Modern Indian Novels in Translation'. The project has been going on for a couple of years now, and they include post-1947 novels in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali and Oriya. The project is funded by MRAR Educational Foundation in Madras and the series is published in Madras where I have bought them, but I would imagine they are available elsewhere. Best of all they are extremely affordable paperbacks (I have even bought books for Rs 85). No one has any excuses for not reading them, they are a treasure trove of fiction in languages one cannot read (hopefully people can read at least one in the original). And as he said, they are REAL, not about Malabar Hill types or worse, about confused 'Indians' drifting aimlessly overseas and talking forever about 'alienation'. I appreciate his honesty about your own work (I must admit I am not a big fan!!), but more voices like his in the insular, self-absorbed, self-promoting Indian English fiction community are sorely needed. Wonder if any one noticed the big profile of Shobha De in The New York Times recently. She is portrayed as 'pushing the boundaries of what women can write and say in India'. This can only happen because of ignorance about the courage of Ismat Chughtai or Lalithambika Antarjanam several decades ago and crass self-promotion on De's part. Makes you want to weep. Anugraha Rajagopal
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:01:42 +0530 I've come to this review late, long after I've read the book, and even after I've (sort of) reviewed it myself in my Book Chaat column on this site. But it's the first (and only) review of Selective Memory that actually manages to holistically capture the experience of consuming the Shobha De brand. Khan's experience as an adman is put to good use here. A perfect brand review, by a very diligent brand executive!
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:24:21 +0000 As a classmate of Joy, I feel may god give strength to such people who, in spite of all worldly opportunities, listen to the inner voice and undertake such missions to dedicate their lives, and sometimes give their lives. We pray others who are preoccupied with their lives do a little something -- something for the betterment of mankind. God bless his soul and he and his will live on eternally.
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:23:46 -0500 I applaud your effort at putting together this photo feature on Varanasi. I am a regular Rediff reader and this has been one of the excellent features it has brought to its readers recently. Keep up the good work.
Janardhan Kamath
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