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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Sound bytes

Hi folks... trust you are all in the pink of health. Have been away from blogging for a month now and it's good to be back.
Yesterday as I was getting home from work I was listening to the radio .... 93.5 Red FM to be exact. Lets say it's not like I am an avid radio listener or anything but just to enliven the drive and since I had forgotten to get a good CD I put the radio on. There was this Saturday night live English music programme on. The RJ was some Jose. He was taking calls for the requests. There was a call and the callers spoke in Hindi. This charlie Jose actually told him that it was an English prog. so he should speak in English. The caller didn't sound as if he knew English and was probably too embarrassed and ended up just saying 'hello, hello'. The call ended and this Jose actually had the gaul to say that these are the hindi listeners of our prog. I was really disgusted. I wanted to tell him "buddy.... let me remind you we live in a country whose national language is hindi"..... be glad that the "aam junta" who speaks hindi actually listens to your channel or you might just be out of job.
After another song I guess Sir Jose must have realised his faux pas... rather he had put both his feet together in his mouth. So when again another "hindi " caller called he said that since it was an english music prog. he was asked to speak in English and show that he couldn't understand hindi. HA... Amazing isn't it. Can't a hindi caller tell him in hindi which ENGLISH song he wants to hear. he wasn't going to translate the title in hindi as well.
We make a big hue and cry about Ms. Shilpa Shetty being at the end of racist remarks...... but can we stop our own babus from making snide remarks against the "vernies"?

3 comments:

Sai said...

I guess that Jose guy is a classic example of the inferiority complex of urban Indians.....everything phoren is good. THese same ppl then go the West and scream RACISM from the top of their lungs!

Shruti said...

Thats so tru Sai.... thx for stopping by.

magiceye said...

atrocious!