For a TV Talent Show in Kerala, A small girl sings a communist song while the bourgeoisie evil 'brahmins' are shown beating a lower caste woman. And this is a family show in a country of a billion Hindus. This is equivalent to the nazis regularly showing Jews as the evil zionists oppressing the underclass [...]
The enticing advertisements by the Department of Tourism by the administration of the Indian state of Kerala entice visitors with seductive images of natural beauty in the tropics, capping it all with the slogan “God’s Own Country”. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that this begs the question, exactly whose ‘god’ does this refer to? [...]
January 30, 2013
Ranbir Singh
India