There is a Hindi slang for the way the Indian English media and more prominently the Indian English internet media promotes Oscars....and that slang is 'chatna'. C'mon folks...get a spine. Oscars is for Western movies made by Western people for Western audiences. If we patronize those movies its just added bonus for them....why are these rediff and DNA and TOI people making so brouhaha over Oscars. Hindi movies are made by Indians for Indian audience....for better or for worse. Stop measuring them by a yardstick that is not applicable. This is not to say that Hindi movies are great but you rediff folks really have to overcome your bloody colonial hangover. Feel good about yourself, feel self assured and don't try to look for recognition from blokes who cannot understand you.....like the academy awards people. Sham on you....the desi English media, shame on you for the way you belittle yourself. You really think our country should have a seat at the global high table then its high time we people stop losing sleep over a so-called lack of recognition from the Western world on every sundry issue. Pusillanimous editors at the Indian English media....you really ought to be ashamed of yourself.
