Comments on: Disastrous celebrity

By: Navneet

Navneet — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:07:56 +0000

Off-topic, but only just.

A Mumbai daily quizzed local college kids on why 'Katrina' has been in the news lately.

3 out of every 5 replies contained the phrase 'Salman Khan's girlfriend'. =)

By: O'Ya Bula Bula Bi

O'Ya Bula Bula Bi — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:09:40 +0000

Shouldn't the loss of life and devastation due to Hurricane Katrina be the first or second line in the story rather mentioned later

Ok here is my take on it --> If this is the ONLY story on Katrina covered by IANS then you make a valid point. However, if IANS has multiple stories on Katrina, which have covered the travesty, and this story specifically happens to be focusing on Jindal, then its perfectly OK to have it in the latter part of the story.

By: Kush Tandon

Kush Tandon — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:25:59 +0000

"Lost a sense of perspective????? what is wrong with that sentence? I dun ged it???"

Shouldn't the loss of life and devastation due to Hurricane Katrina be the first or second line in the story rather mentioned later. That is what I meant.

By: O'Ya Bula Bula Bi

O'Ya Bula Bula Bi — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 15:28:15 +0000

Over 50 people were killed after the storm inflicted catastrophic damage all along the coast as it slammed into Louisiana with 224 kph winds, then swept across Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee." The above sentences are in the fourth paragraph of the story. IAN has totally lost the sense of prespective. TOI twins...

Lost a sense of perspective????? what is wrong with that sentence? I dun ged it???

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:02:24 +0000

Robert Kennedy Jr blames Bush and Haley Barbour failure to sign the Kyoto treaty for the hurricane. Will we see the media condemnation that is routine when conservatives attribute the destruction of nature to the wrath of God.

By: Kush Tandon

Kush Tandon — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:03:10 +0000

"Over 50 people were killed after the storm inflicted catastrophic damage all along the coast as it slammed into Louisiana with 224 kph winds, then swept across Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee."

The above sentences are in the fourth paragraph of the story. IAN has totally lost the sense of prespective. TOI twins...

I was in Delhi when Bobby Jindal had won the Congress seat....the TV channels were showing the good people of Delhi dancing themselves crazy to celebrate his victory, and to my irritation everyone wanted to talk about him.

By: Dogday

Dogday — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 05:07:33 +0000

It's a bad headline, I'm with you on that, but ethnocentric, not starfucking... Isn't the IANS picking one Indian out of the millions affected ethnocentric? They're interested in him because he's in power, in the state and above all things, Indian. They didn't blurb him like a celebrity and my guess is that they, like most of us here, don't have access to the regular people, including desis.

Regarding aid, right now everything seems to be going through and to the Red Cross, but I have heard that the NAACP and Urban League are considering a joint-fundraising effort to target parishes, wards and neighborhoods with high minority populations. So, no "brown" organizations, per se, but there is the ever-blue DNC which I believe is also discussing sponsored volunteer-teams for cleanup, etc..

By: MD

MD — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 02:56:40 +0000

Oh, I was just yanking your chain, guys. Provocateur, that's me.

Anyhoo, the BBC has stories about Brits caught up in the Hurricane, ABC (the Aussie one) the same and on and on an on. This could be considered in the same vein, as opposed to being a celebrity shout out.

I dunno about blogs specifically adressing browns helping out but I'm gonna link to Instapundit tommorrow - he's collecting links from all over the blogosphere, left and right (championed by blogs of all spectrums, including skippy!). Basically, you post a charity you think is good and link back to his post and it will turn into this massive link-up as a sort of blog benefit.

Those poor people. And the people who were crushed in Baghdad, too. Awful.

By: JM

JM — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 02:37:52 +0000

Do you know of Indian or brown orgs involved in relief efforts or gathering contributions towards relief for those devastated by the hurricane?

By: Abhi

Abhi — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:54:24 +0000

My criticism applies equally where Abhi quotes this story about Jindal's homelessness

Fair enough. The point of my post however was not that Bobby Jindal was homeless but about the legislation he helped pass which affects everyone in the area. Thus the title of the post.