Shilpa Shetty has won the reality television show Big Brother. The show created huge hue and cry over so called racist comment made by one of the participants Jane Goody on her fellow participant Shilpa Shetty. This controversy once again united world against any form of racism. Even British PM Tony Blair, British Finance Minister Gordon Brown , key Indian Ministers/officials had to speak on this. British FM’s < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />India visit was over showed by this controversy where he had to condemn the racism repeatedly. Oxfam, the British televisions regulator received more than 35,000 complaints and the host channel “Channel 4 ” alone received more than 4000 comments directly.

 

Whole media across the globe, be it Nepal television or BBC, covered the news with great news value. In this whole affair how Indian media could be left behind. They not only condemned the racism but compared this affair with pride of India. They denounce every form of racism by whites in various forms. In hush, they forgot they also are racist and follow another form of racism.

 

If you see Indian films or soaps or ads, they present Nepali people as idiot, illiterate watchman “Bahadur”. I am not pointing bahadur as low class job, every job has their own wonderful status, but pointing out this how Indian media are full of mediocre mind. Either it’s Yes Boss, Krishh, Sleep Well’s ad or Gharwali Baharwali, they all have shown Nepali as stupid guard who is just able to be watchman. Gharwali baharwali even crossed the limit and showed that Nepali always like khaki color because they are bound to be watchman. Agreed many Nepalis are forced to go to India and work as menial labor because of low economic status or lack of opportunities.

 

Isn’t portraying Nepali people like this a form of racism? Ask some Indians who are Nepali people, they will answer Bahadur or Gurkha are. May be it’s not in terms of color or race, but is a form of racism in terms of work and economy/talent. How fair is it to show whole Nepali as illiterate who cannot speak well and only serve others. And irony is Nepali people also find such roles funny and so called Gurkha or Bahadur enjoys watching such movies or ads or soaps. Big question for you all Nepali accross, “Will you still love watching movies like Krissh or Bhagam Bhag or Gharwali baharwali and laugh on yourself?”

 
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