Scene 4 - (continued from above) - There is a way in which messages like this should be conveyed to the audience. One needs to take extra when dealing with mass audience whose sentiments may be aroused listening to these comments and who can be easily instigated by warring politicians. Big Brother didn't have much of a role to play in this one.
Scene 5 - This is right out of a B grade skin flick. Nice imagination though, I'd love to see if the author comes with a Shoba De'ish novel on this topic. Why pull Big Brother into this? Poor guy is caught in between the churning caused by globalisation on one side and politicians on the other. This one is fantasy, Big Brother is not mean.
The article was hilarious! and the 'intelligent' replies - they were even more!! Before any one questions my 'nationality', I am from Madras (I prefer that), and I feel the same thing about the big brother.
Scene 1 - Sounds like a nice premise for a candy-floss-teen movie, but the bubble bursts when the girl/boy is your sister/brother or God forbid, wife. Intimacy is to be kept private, when it becomes public it becomes everybody's business. Big Brother was probably right here.
Scene 2 - This one is surely something that need to let go, no one can simply clamp upon people's freedom of expression and having fun. Gyrating to loud music feels good to some which needs to be respected and these people should also respect the soul that likes silence more. Big Brother was overreacting.
Scene 3 - Absolutely unwarranted. Teenagers need to have the right to express themselves in whatever way they want to, moral policing will only boomerang back. This one has been going on for a long long time in schools and colleges and I am sure will go on for sometime later too. Big Brother is not in the scene yet here.
Scene 4 - This was purely a political situation where the victim in the incident was being pulled down over an earlier controversy caused by a director calling all actresses akin to prostitutes. The actress could have been true and I personally agree to her viewpoint .... check below
A well written piece of sarcasm. I share the author's anger with what's happening in Chennai, and all other places in India where "Big Brothers" are there. The truth is "Big Brother" is only acting on "orders" from his political bosses. Its a lot of hypocrisy. People who enforce these moral laws arent any pure themselves. It is just that they want to expliot the so called "Tamil(or Maratha) pride" for political mileage and want to make sure it stays there. Other wise if people become liberal and begin to think and feel and act on their own they will loose their stranglehold on these people. In all this commotion not any of the political majors have come on record to condemn any of these foolish acts. That shows their intentions. Freedom of individuals, promised by our constitution, should be safeguarded and not denied for political reasons.
Shoba has an excellent humorous touch to her writing. But she has taken it a bit too far in her enthusiasm to impress the readers. Even though some points raised by her are worthy, rest of them are over exaggerated.
Im from Chennai, but I respect freedom of any kind. With that I mean let people do what they want in privecy. But smooching in public is actually not our culture. Im for change but for the better not worse. Lets pick up the habit from the west as value for time, value for personal hygene, value for public property. Waste management and let not make this an issue of big brother thing. I see that no one has any problem when any counry in the middle east enforces harsher laws. So again let the so called free minded people think again as to what the priorities should be. Smooching in public certenly is not.
