Comments on: Who’s the Real Swine? http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/ Taking the Tire out of Satire Sun, 20 May 2012 21:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mel http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-136967 Mel Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:00:17 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-136967 Slobodan died in a prison cell. Saddam was hanged. Modi gets of with a mean cartoon and the mini fascists are crying about it. Amusing. Slobodan died in a prison cell. Saddam was hanged. Modi gets of with a mean cartoon and the mini fascists are crying about it. Amusing.

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]]> By: SK http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-12983 SK Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:47:48 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-12983 Congress has been destablizing BJP regimes through 'strategic riots' for over a decade to consolidate their muslim votebank. They recently tried the same in Yeddy's hometown in Karnataka. The Godhra mob was led by a Muslim Kangress comptroller. Do these guys expect garlands when burning a train full of Hindu women and children pilgrims. Media as usual started its 'Hindu activists' apologetics and sought to demonize CM Modi who called in paramilitary forces in record time despite Operation Parakram against Pakistan being held at the border (due to the attack on the Indian Parliament). Abrahamics have been relentlessly trying to eliminate 'shirk' or nonbelief in the "ONE TRUE GOD" in heathen India for the past few centuries. They destroyed every temple in N India pursuing this hairbrained goal, not to mention the ancient cultures of native americas, persia, Afghanistan, punjab, Sindh, Central Asia, Boxer China, Korea, Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, bengal, Kerala, Pacific islands, indigenous Australia, as well as greece and europe. Imperialist Monotheism is the problem, not the reaction of natives. Congress has been destablizing BJP regimes through ‘strategic riots’ for over a decade to consolidate their muslim votebank. They recently tried the same in Yeddy’s hometown in Karnataka. The Godhra mob was led by a Muslim Kangress comptroller. Do these guys expect garlands when burning a train full of Hindu women and children pilgrims. Media as usual started its ‘Hindu activists’ apologetics and sought to demonize CM Modi who called in paramilitary forces in record time despite Operation Parakram against Pakistan being held at the border (due to the attack on the Indian Parliament).

Abrahamics have been relentlessly trying to eliminate ‘shirk’ or nonbelief in the “ONE TRUE GOD” in heathen India for the past few centuries. They destroyed every temple in N India pursuing this hairbrained goal, not to mention the ancient cultures of native americas, persia, Afghanistan, punjab, Sindh, Central Asia, Boxer China, Korea, Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, bengal, Kerala, Pacific islands, indigenous Australia, as well as greece and europe.

Imperialist Monotheism is the problem, not the reaction of natives.

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]]> By: Sundar http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-8064 Sundar Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:21:11 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-8064 I think this cartoon is more a reflection on the Indian sense of "humor"(or the lack of it) rather than on politics. You only have to watch the crap that passes of as "humor" in Indian movies & TV serials. I think this cartoon is more a reflection on the Indian sense of “humor”(or the lack of it) rather than on politics. You only have to watch the crap that passes of as “humor” in Indian movies & TV serials.

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]]> By: abhay lokre http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-7777 abhay lokre Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:04:36 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-7777 The trouble is , TOI has a large circulation base and is read by many more people as against the readership your weblog may enjoy. Sometimes reading articles like yours,i feel these are like " NAKKAR KHANE ME TOOTI KI AWAZ". Anyways keep up the good work The trouble is , TOI has a large circulation base and is read by many more people as against the readership your weblog may enjoy. Sometimes reading articles like yours,i feel these are like ” NAKKAR KHANE ME TOOTI KI AWAZ”.
Anyways keep up the good work

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]]> By: amreekandesi http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-7681 amreekandesi Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:49:05 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-7681 QI - Precisely my point. Be fair to everybody. Not just pick some people and keep braying about them. People seem to have forgotten the actual definition of secularism in their zeal. @Puneet - I hear you, and feel the same way about divisive politics. What irks me is that everybody does it, but some people are targeted more than the others, which seems to reflect some sort of mental bias in our media. @Nita - Yes. Media is responsible for news reporting, not opinion dissemination, which is what they seem to be doing. And they seem to have very strong biases. @Saachi - Sure. I am not even trying to vindicate Modi of all that he has been accused of, but just wondering why it is so fair to compare him to pigs while there are so many pigs in this country. He isnt the cleanest politician, but he is everybody's favorite target. Why? Because he comes from a Hindu ideology? Because he represents the BJP and not everybody's favorite Congress? @Roshni - You summed up nicely! @Vikram - No. I was not going off on YSR recently. I was going off on his supporters hyping up his death for whatever reasons. I was going off on their citing people ending their lives in grief. Turned out that a few days later there were indeed reports that i was correct, and it was just a publicity gimmick. QI – Precisely my point. Be fair to everybody. Not just pick some people and keep braying about them. People seem to have forgotten the actual definition of secularism in their zeal.

@Puneet – I hear you, and feel the same way about divisive politics. What irks me is that everybody does it, but some people are targeted more than the others, which seems to reflect some sort of mental bias in our media.

@Nita – Yes. Media is responsible for news reporting, not opinion dissemination, which is what they seem to be doing. And they seem to have very strong biases.

@Saachi – Sure. I am not even trying to vindicate Modi of all that he has been accused of, but just wondering why it is so fair to compare him to pigs while there are so many pigs in this country. He isnt the cleanest politician, but he is everybody’s favorite target. Why? Because he comes from a Hindu ideology? Because he represents the BJP and not everybody’s favorite Congress?

@Roshni – You summed up nicely!

@Vikram – No. I was not going off on YSR recently. I was going off on his supporters hyping up his death for whatever reasons. I was going off on their citing people ending their lives in grief. Turned out that a few days later there were indeed reports that i was correct, and it was just a publicity gimmick.

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]]> By: Vikram http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-7679 Vikram Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:13:19 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-7679 Oh yes, the 'Modi has done development' argument, lets see now, Proportion of underweight children under 5 (%) Andhra : 32.7, Gujarat : 44.7 India state hunger index (Higher is worse) Andhra : 19.54, Gujarat : 24.69 Source: http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/cp/ishi08.pdf I am no fan of the Congress or the ex-Andhra CM, but werent you going off on YSR Reddy recently ? Oh yes, the ‘Modi has done development’ argument, lets see now,

Proportion of underweight children under 5 (%) Andhra : 32.7, Gujarat : 44.7
India state hunger index (Higher is worse) Andhra : 19.54, Gujarat : 24.69

Source: http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/cp/ishi08.pdf

I am no fan of the Congress or the ex-Andhra CM, but werent you going off on YSR Reddy recently ?

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]]> By: Roshni http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-7580 Roshni Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:19:53 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-7580 I agree with Quirky Indian and Nita that the media should take on everyone..not just one target who happens to be the trend! That's what the media should be there for...unbiased, objective, hard-hitting journalism. However, though I am all for free speech, I don't find it funny to mock some one who has a potentially life-threatening disease...that is cheap! I agree with Quirky Indian and Nita that the media should take on everyone..not just one target who happens to be the trend! That’s what the media should be there for…unbiased, objective, hard-hitting journalism. However, though I am all for free speech, I don’t find it funny to mock some one who has a potentially life-threatening disease…that is cheap!

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]]> By: saachi http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-7575 saachi Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:23:26 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-7575 AD, Modi might have helped Gujrat develop a lot but he did take a communal path to popularize himself and that in a country like ours is a not the way to rise to the top. Its akin to Hitler actually whose reign did wonders for Germany scientifically and infrastructure wise but genocide has masked all that he ever did. AD,

Modi might have helped Gujrat develop a lot but he did take a communal path to popularize himself and that in a country like ours is a not the way to rise to the top.

Its akin to Hitler actually whose reign did wonders for Germany scientifically and infrastructure wise but genocide has masked all that he ever did.

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]]> By: Nita http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-7568 Nita Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:36:57 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-7568 The main problem with much of the media in India today is that they are one-sided, depending on whose side they are on. Media should be objective, if it is worth its salt. Where Times of India is concerned, it has little credibility in the eyes of the public. Many view it as a tabloid. The main problem with much of the media in India today is that they are one-sided, depending on whose side they are on. Media should be objective, if it is worth its salt. Where Times of India is concerned, it has little credibility in the eyes of the public. Many view it as a tabloid.

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]]> By: Kiran http://amreekandesi.com/2009/11/01/whos-the-real-swine/comment-page-1/#comment-7545 Kiran Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:49:48 +0000 http://amreekandesi.com/?p=2595#comment-7545 Not being an Indian by birth, I am finding it difficult to express my comment here. I did googled about Narendra Modi. I can agree with Poonam's comments as far as my knowledge goes in this matter. Not being an Indian by birth, I am finding it difficult to express my comment here. I did googled about Narendra Modi. I can agree with Poonam’s comments as far as my knowledge goes in this matter.

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