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Of late several of our demure ladies have been in the news for sundry reasons.
1. First there was our education minister (a popular ex-TV actress) who was teased by men without chivalry about her own educational background till she silenced them with her Yale degree.
Unfortunately, egged on by her unthinking advisers, she got an order issued that Hindi (oh! no! not again!) should be made a compulsory language taught in every school of Hindustan from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Gujerat to Nagaland.
This so enraged another smart lady chief minister from the South (a popular ex-cinema actress to boot) who happens to be a close friend and admirer of the former lady's boss that she (the education minister) quietly withdrew her earlier order.
I don't know what has been achieved by this drama if any.
2. Then there was this ex-Bollywood actress who woke up all of a sudden, got enraged, and asked our new Government to punish all DJs who mocked her and her ilk's acts in our staid parliament (perhaps with canes wielded like my HM Father used to do to his erring students in the Assembly in Muthukur in the 1950s).
The concerned minister smiled in his saffron sleeves but agreed wholeheartedly.
Noblesse Oblige!
3. Then it was the turn of another ex-Bollywood actress popular for her tonga rides. She entered the lower house of parliament recently after a stint in the upper house. This lady represents a holy city in the North, and on a visit to her constituency, was so enraged by the pitiable condition of its begging widows that she said 'no more entry' to widows from Bihar, Bengal and Orissa.
This so enraged everyone who thought they were someone that editorials have been written that she has quietly forgotten that she hails from a South Indian Iyyengar family and made her living in Bombay and fell in love with a married Punju co-actor and both got converted to Islam to get married and beget kids, and is an MP from a North Indian cowbelt state; and now has the cheek to be so parochial as to accuse folks from other states.
The debate is still on, with explanations worse than the accusations.
4. Ha! That brings us to our own didi. There have been accusations in the newspapers that this lady appears ferocious with the ruling party at the center in public but is ever-smiling with them in private.
This Janus behavior has been unkindly attributed to her efforts to fend off investigations into a certain spurious Saraswati Scam that is so close to the seat of her power that she has been accused of yielding a saffron seat in the Bengal Assembly after a dry spell of 13 years.
5. And lastly there is this reigning queen of Bollywood.
Apparently a famous newspaper published a mocking photo of her cleavage in its internet edition.
And shit hit its fan when she tweeted:
"Yes! I am a Woman. I have breasts and a cleavage! You got a problem!!??"
OMG! Such a welcome slap to our journos was long overdue.
During our youth such behavior was just unimaginable. The first cleavage that hit our screens was in 1960 in a Raj Kapur film by name 'Jis Desh me Ganga Behti hai'. In it there was a swimming scene in which Padmini appeared in a wet sari that clung to her body. Every young man (including me) watched the movie just for ogling Padmini's assets. And many senior citizens watched it happily just to decry the degrading standards of Hindi films...and saw it once again to remove their doubts.
That's all for now folks!
...Posted by Ishani
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Of late several of our demure ladies have been in the news for sundry reasons.
1. First there was our education minister (a popular ex-TV actress) who was teased by men without chivalry about her own educational background till she silenced them with her Yale degree.
Unfortunately, egged on by her unthinking advisers, she got an order issued that Hindi (oh! no! not again!) should be made a compulsory language taught in every school of Hindustan from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Gujerat to Nagaland.
This so enraged another smart lady chief minister from the South (a popular ex-cinema actress to boot) who happens to be a close friend and admirer of the former lady's boss that she (the education minister) quietly withdrew her earlier order.
I don't know what has been achieved by this drama if any.
2. Then there was this ex-Bollywood actress who woke up all of a sudden, got enraged, and asked our new Government to punish all DJs who mocked her and her ilk's acts in our staid parliament (perhaps with canes wielded like my HM Father used to do to his erring students in the Assembly in Muthukur in the 1950s).
The concerned minister smiled in his saffron sleeves but agreed wholeheartedly.
Noblesse Oblige!
3. Then it was the turn of another ex-Bollywood actress popular for her tonga rides. She entered the lower house of parliament recently after a stint in the upper house. This lady represents a holy city in the North, and on a visit to her constituency, was so enraged by the pitiable condition of its begging widows that she said 'no more entry' to widows from Bihar, Bengal and Orissa.
This so enraged everyone who thought they were someone that editorials have been written that she has quietly forgotten that she hails from a South Indian Iyyengar family and made her living in Bombay and fell in love with a married Punju co-actor and both got converted to Islam to get married and beget kids, and is an MP from a North Indian cowbelt state; and now has the cheek to be so parochial as to accuse folks from other states.
The debate is still on, with explanations worse than the accusations.
4. Ha! That brings us to our own didi. There have been accusations in the newspapers that this lady appears ferocious with the ruling party at the center in public but is ever-smiling with them in private.
This Janus behavior has been unkindly attributed to her efforts to fend off investigations into a certain spurious Saraswati Scam that is so close to the seat of her power that she has been accused of yielding a saffron seat in the Bengal Assembly after a dry spell of 13 years.
5. And lastly there is this reigning queen of Bollywood.
Apparently a famous newspaper published a mocking photo of her cleavage in its internet edition.
And shit hit its fan when she tweeted:
"Yes! I am a Woman. I have breasts and a cleavage! You got a problem!!??"
OMG! Such a welcome slap to our journos was long overdue.
During our youth such behavior was just unimaginable. The first cleavage that hit our screens was in 1960 in a Raj Kapur film by name 'Jis Desh me Ganga Behti hai'. In it there was a swimming scene in which Padmini appeared in a wet sari that clung to her body. Every young man (including me) watched the movie just for ogling Padmini's assets. And many senior citizens watched it happily just to decry the degrading standards of Hindi films...and saw it once again to remove their doubts.
That's all for now folks!
...Posted by Ishani
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