HyperionReactor

bq. Why can't you simply let the people of the Narmada valley drown? They are mere tribals and villagers - marginal people. Peripheral to our lives. The kind of farmers who commit suicides in high numbers and spoil our cocktail dinners. The kind who support naxalites. The type who demand reservations in jobs that rightly belong to the elite. The uncouth majority who can't distinguish a chardonnay from a chappal. The non-consumers, without disposable incomes. Many of them are mere freeloaders, demanding all kinds of rights when they do not even buy a bike or a computer to contibute to the glowing health of "our" economy. But for you, we would have happily underplayed them in our newspapers and TV news bulletins, like we ignored Medha Patkar and NBA activists for the first 8 days of their starvation but carried images of Modi's designer hunger strike in its first 8 minutes! Why did you have to play the spoilsport and draw attention to the issue? Why are you speaking of the Supreme Court, justice and equity? Grow up, Aamir, don't you know we are not a welfare state anymore?

• Singing and dancing often take the place of typical romance scenes (kissing, sex, etc.)
• Couples often never kiss, though this unwritten rule is beginning to be broken.
• The families of one (or both) of the romantic leads will disapprove of the relationship.
• Characters often wait until monsoon season to leave their loved ones, yet the female character/love interest is still wearing her sandals.
• Though characters may be from rural village or a poor neighborhood, their song-and-dance numbers occur in an exotic local (Switzerland, Egypt, etc.)
• Dream sequences normally involve heavy song-and-dance routines.

I don't get this... The church allowed the book to go through; and no one protested. Now when the movie is released everyone is going bonkers over it and running protest on the street and burning stuff.

Give me a break, where is the freedom of creativity going? Last time I was in India it was a free country and supported a free press and freedom of speech.