Big brother show Shilpa Shetty Row

I was about to comment on the alleged racial comments on actress shilpa shetty by the inmates(note: not participants) in the Big brother show, which made headline news and went up to British parliament, but my net was down. 24 hours later, we find that the actress has backed out of her statement that she had spoken in a fit of anger.I knew that media blows things out of proportion,but this is too much. As far as my limited knowledge about the show goes, it is a bunch of people together cut off from the outside world and whoever is able leave last is the winner and gets millions.Shilpa shetty was paid a lot of money to be part of this show, knowing fully well it could be a humiliating experience. The show's success obviously depends on the inmates' bitchiness towards each other. Who would want to watch a show where everyone was saccharine sweet towards each other? My question is when you allow someone to call you a dog, does the adjective matter?A brown dog or black dog is all the same. We are human beings first and when we are degrade ourselves for money,we have to face the consequences. Secondly,a racial allegation matters where innocent citizens are targetted as it happens everyday.Not where it helps to boost its ratings in a celebrity show.I am reminded of America's stand up comedian Chris Rock' s quote about the "assassination" of rap stars Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls: "Malcolm X was assassinated. John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Them two niggas got shot." Exactly.

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I had the misfortune of reading 2 horrible books this month. The infamous Opal Mehta (a pirated version I got for 45 bucks in pondy bazaar) and one night @ call center by Chetan Bhagat. . I was reminded of the "Two lines (Iru kodugal philosophy in K. Balachander's movie)”. When I finished Opal and thought I cannot suffer any longer, comes Chetan Bhagat with his "contemporary classic”. I cannot even begin to comment on the clumsy storyline of 6 people in a call center, their stupid mundane lives, filmy ending, and lines taken from 'Fight club". I could even forgive the inane conversation with God who seems to be distinctly biased against Americans, the sudden brainwave that seizes the hero and his co worker in the last chapter to save the call center from layoff apocalypse (though I thought the problem with call centers was attrition and not downsizing) and the American bashing which associates all the problems of our country and youth to those morons with dollar. What I couldn't bear was the way the writer underestimated the intelligence of the reader in the final quest to save the call center's jobs. For people who haven't read the book, here's what they do.
1. Call every employee in the public address system to call American clients and tell them some evil forces are going to take over their country.
2. Every American’s computer is infected with the above virus.
3. The Americans have to call their call center every few hours in order to avoid this thereby building call traffic by which the hero can convince their employers not to lay them off.
4. All these instructions are sent in a mass email to the whole office by the hero and his friend.
This is the basic gist, but excuse me, aren't you incriminating yourself by sending a mass email?
Would the 3000 odd employees blindly follow someone (given the Indian mentality three Indians will agree on any issue only if two are dead) will who may not only jeopardize their job but put them in jail as well?
Wouldn't at least one of the American morons call any law enforcement agency to say their country is being threatened?
A schoolboy making a hoax call from a public booth can be found out and these guys have made the job easy for CIA by happily disclosing their location.
I am sorry; this is not artistic license but plain stupidity. My only satisfaction is the book got what it deserved- it is being made into a bollywood movie.