Terrorism is a religion of satan: Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan along with tennis sensation Sania Mirza and shooting star Abhinav Bindra expressed their anger towards terrorism, branding it as a religion of devils.

SRK said,While all civilised religions celebrate and respect life this new barbaric terror religion loves only death and unfortunately all human faiths now face a challenge.Indian civilisation does not distinguish in terms of religion. We are an impossible achievement in the world and I’m very proud to be an Indian.”

SRK further says, “No one can have two viewpoints about terrorism. There is no religion of terrorism. I am often asked my viewpoint on this, maybe because I am a Muslim and I am veryproud to be a Muslim.”

“But I have read the Quran, listened to the Gita, acted in Ram Leela… and learnt Christianity besides being a Muslim… My friends and I have worked on a film on Buddha (Asoka) and my wife is a Punjabi.”

The message of the evening was “Terror has no religion. Our solidarity, courage and resoluteness are the answer to the threat of terror” and the event was hosted by Nandita Das.

Intelligence Limited: The Other Side of Media

Authored By Honey Kumar:

“Aishwarya Rai pregnant.”(Made up!!!)

“Imran Khan getting engaged.”

“Shahrukh Khan’s knee twisted during Ra One.”

There was a time when these bollywood headlines or news snippets were solely limited to either a small section in the newspaper or were extensively written about only in film magazines. By 2010 however, things have modified themselves a bit.

To put it in layman terms Bollywood has now become synonymous with the word Entertainment!! Any magazine I flip, any newspaper I read or even the TV and Radio, all literally run around this very nine-letter word- Bollywood!!

Where have the other topics of concern vanished? Why don’t we hear people talking about stuff like Books, politics, knowledge, culture or even travel???

Why is it so that we have more of the Indian Film Industry programs whereas intelligent entertainment is slowly fading off?

Why, in the name of moneymaking does a TV or Radio Channel forget that their main motive of existence is MASS COMMUNICATION & not FILMI INFORMATION!!

If you Google the word Entertainment, you’d not be surprised to see that barring the first search result which is usually from Wikipedia (wonder how much they pay for that), more than 90% of the search results would show celebrity gossips and banter.

Social activists fracture their heads continuously on Media Freedom and Right to Knowledge, we hold seminars on selling concepts that force an individual’s mind to ponder and think. But, in the end, its always the moolah and bollywood which strips the lining on the cake.

On April 6 2010, the naxalites brutally slaughtered 75 CRPF jawans in Chhatisgarh’s Dantewada district, which can easily be called as the most horrific attack on security personnel when they were returning from their joint operation. Read more.

The very same week the uber-failure tennis star Sania Mirza and her banned cricketer fiancé were married amidst huge controversies and ex-wife tantrums together with fallaciously emoted public apologies and interviews. Read more.

The outcome??

Yes, the latter garnered more screen space than the lives of almost 100 innocent people on a spree to save their land. Every news channel in the Indian Media was covering the wedding, mind you. But till date, I haven’t heard any feedback by the government on compensating the families of the dead!

Now we know, why the youth hesitate to join armed forces!

I was working on something when my friend pings me on Gtalk and says:

“Wonder if you have 5 minutes to talk.”

I say, “ I always have time to talk.” Simple and short.

He says, “ You know, I work with a news channel and the kind of shows that we make are often in the INFOTAINMENT category which talk about majorly everything that concerns me or you.”

I say, “ Yes absolutely.”

He says, “ But now, all we do is just talk about where shahrukh is performing or where salman is Emceeing. There is no more material in our shows. Yes, we often talk about politics , but that is just 10%.”

I say, “Welcome to the fraternity of buried intellectualism.”

The whole thread of Media and Mass Communication was constructed for the sole reason that it’s easier for people to identify with and orient themselves with not only the government classification but also the changing societal trends. Looking at how the Indian Film Industry has taken over practically every other channel, my creativity also seems to have gone for a toss. Bollywood stars every year rake in crores of funds in the name of endorsing hair oils to baby diapers and soaps as advertisers feel people connect with the STARS more, which according to a layman like me is absolutely misinterpreted thinking!(Debaters welcome)

I want sharp discussions….

I look forward to opinions on issues that matter..

I want the common man to go beyond the Shahrukhs and Salmans and contemplate on why the Indian mannerisms have suddenly gone so aggressive.. that for every other thing in our city or town, we go on a rampage killing people or destroying their homes!!

A very popular example of this trend is the recent 3 idiots Vs. Chetan Bhagat controversy wherein the latter accused Vidhu Vinod Chopra of not giving him due credit in the movie and henceforth the story was successful in capturing the breaking news slot for a week . This is where my concern is born. For me, this was probably the first time I actually saw the

author live on television!! How come we never see much of him on the tube (not you-tube) promoting his books, answering questions related to the youth or even in terms of matters concerning remotely to his profession!!

All of a sudden, this tech-savvy author got time to give interviews, hog the public interest and become an unexpected celebrity!! Now, every other recognizes this semi-bald, white hair man with Gandhi-ji like glasses as the man who wrote Five-point someone!!

Honor Killings are on the rise- Brother kills sister!

The nature is on self-destroying spree – earthquakes, oil spills …

Humans becoming terrorists…

Civic sense lost…

Is this the spate of modernity that our forefathers used to predict?? Our living standards have unquestionably risen beyond numbers but for some odd reason or another, our standards in terms of patience, credence and values has dipped just like the falling stock exchange!!

Lets arrest the process right here before it creates a poppadum, out of what we are proud to call our so-called growing country!