[Assam] From Tehelka

[Rajib Das]

Sounds as asinine an article as C-da ascribes to the
Sentinel editorials!

--- Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:

> How true!
> cm
> 
> 
> 
> 
> REFLECTED GLORY
> 
> After chasing Deepa Mehta out, India smells an
> opportunity to take credit.
> 
> Sonia Faleiro
> 
> India is never shy of claiming successful Indians -
> even those who 
> hold citizenship elsewhere - as entirely her own.
> It's not surprising 
> then that filmmaker Deepa Mehta's Water is seen by
> some as our best 
> hope at the Oscars. Never mind that Mehta is
> Canadian, and that Water 
> was literally chased out of, and blacklisted, in the
> nation that is 
> now intent on bathing in its accolades. In 2000,
> Hindu 
> fundamentalists stormed the sets of Water in
> Varanasi, threatening to 
> beat Mehta "black and blue". She postponed
> production, and two films 
> later, completed the final episode of her trilogy in
> Sri Lanka. India 
> supported Mehta with death threats, warnings of
> arrest, and mutilated 
> freedom of expression.
> 
> However, now that it's time to revel in reflected
> glory, India seems 
> to have forgotten that it failed Mehta when she
> needed it most. 
> Should she win, as Canada's entry to the Oscars,
> there will be, no 
> doubt, boasts of how Bollywood is conquering the
> world. Contrast that 
> with the fact that until recently Water had neither
> a distributor nor 
> a confirmed release date here. Let's hope that any
> euphoria over 
> Mehta's "Indian" achievement is matched with equal
> support of her 
> work being peacefully seen, and that she understands
> and forgives our 
> schizophrenic reactions.
> 
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