Several serious unsavoury features of Bol.wood, NO ONE sd forget: 1) LINKS WITH THE UNDERGROUND. Dawood Ibrahim and Jotta Shakeel made their first billions through Bd and smuggling. Bharat Shah, remember? 2) Links to prostitution, drugs and huge BLACK-MONEY 3) Funds driving terrorism, hawala and other channels undermining INDIA 4) Introducing VULGARITY in songs, "choli ke peechay kya hai", SOFT PORNOGRAPHY for e.g., in dances - the forward pelvic thrust was never part of any Indian dance until introduced by Bd. Many foreign countries regard Bd movies as "soft pornography". Yet the Censor Board here has different standards. The Board's main focus seems to be to observes "sickularism" as the other Media do. Moral standards are not its concern, so it seems. Every other country has banned showing smoking and drinking. Not India. 5) Therefore, social and family issues are not that well depicted in Bd. But some serials do a better job. 6) In some serials, characterisation and dialogues are better than Bd. AYURVEDA / SIDDHA / UNANI / HOMEO - -
Invasions from 11th century on did interrupt Indian medicine and technology. We have evidence that surgery was very well develoed. Scholars with medical background are needed to research the available Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam works. There are many at the Saraswati Mahal Library in Tanjavoor. Fakes are a problem. Sorry power cut must switch off.
RE:Bollywood / Indian culture / Ayurveda
by Secular India on Aug 21, 2008 09:58 AM Permalink
Good joke - Mr Iyer. Please petition Mr Karunanidhi and other parties in Tamil Nadu and lets await their response to you. We know what Indian culture means to people like you - untouchability and caste system.
RE:Bollywood / Indian culture / Ayurveda
by Kris iyer on Aug 21, 2008 07:53 PM Permalink
"Secular India" Most of our readers would know your irrelevance a) to my post above b) to current Indian society c) to the present 21 century d) to secularism in India. None of the "We-hate-this-caste" brigade is succeeding in India. You are free to live in the past if you want to. Thanks for your suggestion on the "power cut". No use petitioning anyone here. You do it if you want to. You may be "closer" to Karunanidhi than I am ever likely to be. Only some "caste-minded" folks such as yourself have any influence on politicians in India, especially, TamilNadu, where most parties are caste-based. You won't admit it. It is easier for you to blame the 2% of the population for every problem isn't it? The discussion is about Bollywood's habits. You are free to say it is all in accordance with indian culture. Then you are entering some sort of debate.
