...but having said that, I'll add that few international celebrities of stature receive the kind of crap that AB receives from the Indian media. Which of the names you mentioned above as celebrity Hollywood bloggers does?
Sure, AB would have looked much more dignified if he chose not to respond at all, but that's a truth hard to realize when you are the affected party. Like he himself once said in a post, when slander is printed about him, he thinks every person he is meeting has read that, and is wondering about that.
Why, just why, does the media hound him? What harm has he done them? The media has _actually_ reduced the number of people who have been fans of the actor, through vilified campaigns over the last decade or two. If he feels compelled to respond to every piece of crap written against him to protect his reputation, I understand.
I'd like to see Aamir Khan's blog be as much of a "treat" as it is, if he got the same kind of treatment from the media. If the TOI did a piece on the edit page (like Harsh Pant's) about how Aamir ditched a woman he was married to for over a decade, I'd like to see Aamir's blog silent about that. Or George Clooney's, in a similar context.
Or Raja Sen's. I see places where you defend allegations against you that you are an SRK toadie. Why do you choose to?
Sure, you are saying he overdoes it. I find Amitabh a brilliant person, and it's not for any of us to judge what is and isn't petty when a man's honor is attacked.
RE:good article...
by secret secret on May 27, 2008 11:24 AM Permalink
And oh yes, I find people who make personal attacks against a writer truly sick. I find this symptomatic of India and Indians, who do not know how to handle the responsibility that comes with freedom. Ours is the land of one of the most tolerant of religions that constantly preaches restraint and conquest of the senses, and we are amongst the most abusive.
This site is democratic enough to let people say what they want, the writer and his friends are democratic enough not to go reporting as abuse, messages that are actually abuse, and we all choose to blissfully ignore all that.
I don't think this writer would hurl personal abuses on an Internet forum against another writer whose writings he did not approve of, and that automatically makes him a much better person than all those that do here.
RE:good article...
by a on May 27, 2008 10:31 PM Permalink
raja sen has also made a personal abusive attack against big B, and if you read Big B's blog you will know how personally he takes such attacks, so all your banter about we being abusive and your idol raja sen being not, is a lot of bull. so dont give useless lectures, and you are also very sick
