The weaker dog gets the lashing

The current controversy in Indian political scene is a ridiculous one. One might wonder - "so, what is new?". Nothing. Yet, it deserves a small write up.

The story goes that a some unknown New Zealand TV host called our Delhi CM names, or cracked a poor vulgar joke. And our MEA called their representative in India, and gave them a sound blasting [demarche is the diplomatic terminology].

India did not have the spine to called the Australian High Commissioner and do the same when Indians were being hurt, wounded and killed. Recently, our government did not offer support or intervention of any kind when a film producer was detained with jihadi litterature.

So, why did MEA have this adverse reaction to "Delhi CM's name controversy" ?

OPTIONS:

a. She is from the Congress. If the joke was on Mr Modi, it would have been overlooked.
b. India was tired of NZ's tirade about CWG prior to the games; and this was just a good excuse to get back at them.
c. We don't have the courage to stand up to Australia and USA; so we just picked a weaker nation to practice a few exceptional lessons in diplomacy.
d. None of the above. Just a clueless government with clueless reactions. We are all stupid citizens trying to make sense of this.
e. Indian TV need some fodder involving some level of profanity. [ One Indian TV channel does a program on Sex in Indian cities every year - wrapping this up in a sociological study showcase. ] So, playing this disgusting clip over and over, was just our R rated experience on prime time TV. One egg-headed guy on TV was at his devilish best :-)

You may add to this list of options. And start a SMS poll.

One TV commentator finds NZ "as a very white majoritarian exclusivist society". If you can make sense out of this statement, please post a detailed blog. My take is this. We find Kolkata to be Bong majoritarian, Maharashtra to be Marathi majoritarian and Chennai to be Tamil majoritarian. Sure we have our shades of loons who argue that their language is the best in the world. At a certain level, India is not alien to linguistic, casteist and religious divide and tension. Thank God, we have the centrists who keep the discourse reasonably balanced. In some sense, can we not cut the exclusivist pie in so many ways. YES. WE CAN. So, what was she saying ?

IMHO, this needs to stop. The more we pay attention to these trivial issues and brand nations as racists, we look like jokers.

May be NZ is racist, but this ain't the reason why we should conclude that they are. Indian crack more profane jokes on fellow citizens; Americans joke about blondes; there are Polish jokes. Profanity in jokes is nothing new; and yes, lots of people do find this disgusting.

This one does not qualify as a joke. This is vulgarity at best. We just move on.

Most importantly, I would love for our MEA to be active when Indians are at the receiving end of violence and injustice. Our TV should focus on the core issue and ask where Mr Krishna was when Indians were being slaughtered in Melbourne.

Stop this BS. Lets get our priorities right.