Episode 112: A Few Questions

• Why is it that Shahrukh Khan - after acting so stubborn and headstrong and refusing to apologize - jets off to Dubai for the premiere? Isn't he supposed to remain here and see what happens on Friday? After all, all said and done, he started it. He should attend the finale too, no?

• Was it even necessary for him to talk like that? Yes, India is a free country blah blah blah. But oughtn't we to make judicious usage of our freedom? Or is it that he made that statement only because he was free to talk whatever he wanted? 

• India is always like Nirupa Roy - understanding, calling for talks, asking for peace, etc etc. The ban on those cricketers was one of the few times it did show it can be Bindu too. Is it wrong to threaten so meekly once in a while?

• Given the fact that even the US of A was paranoid during the cold war with Russia and investigated virtually every lead that smelt Russian, how can you expect India to just warm its legs by the fire and let Pakistan play here without so much as a hint of disgust at that country's behaviour?

• Given the fact that even the US of A alongwith a few other countries boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics to indicate its disgust about the Soviet Union's attack on Afghanistan, how can one expect sports to not be politicized?

• Amidst all of this, why is it that the MNS is keeping its mouth shut? Usually, by now, there's a whole newspaper full of what and how and where they want justice done etc etc.

• How come the Shiv Sena can get away with so much arson even in the 21st century? And that too in Mumbai? Granted they had a stronghold sometime back, but now? They have lost it all to the Congress and others. So why is it that Mumbai fears the losers then?

• Why is everyone mum about the fact that Balasaheb Thackeray is - after all - from Madhya Pradesh? Yes, he may have fought for Maharashtra etc etc, but so did others from outside Maharashtra too. So how does he become the son of the soil?

• Asking someone (a rather reckless irresponsible someone) to apologize and resorting to violence to ensure that he does doesn't make the one asking the apology any less reckless or irresponsible. Does anyone see that they are actually a mafia in the making? 

• Who ever has given the Shiv Sena the right to think it to be the authority on what has to be and what has not to be said in Mumbai? Once upon a time, someone from their own party was insisting that all in Mumbai be educated in Marathi schools.  Never mind the fact that their own children sat in convent schools.