Friday, September 28, 2007

We Are SOOOOOOOO Fuckin' FUcked, Int'l Edition: Dateline, India

Communities in the northeast Indian state of Bengal have descended into bloody, violent, sectarian/racialist, internecine strife over the outcome of a fucking television show. Indian Idol 3, for Christ's fucking sake.
Fookin Chuy, people. It's just bullshit!
From The Times Online:
"The army was called in to deal with violent communal clashes today after the Indian version of Pop Idol inflamed deep-rooted differences between the Nepali community and locals in the country’s north-east.

Members of India’s elite Rapid Action Force and Border Security Force cordoned off sections of the town of Silguri in West Bengal as police charged to quell rioting by thousands of people divided by their support for the winner and the runner-up of the global TV phenomenon.

Prashant Tamang, a 24-year-old former policeman of Nepali origin from Darjeeling, won Indian Idol 3 on Sunday night, beating Amit Paul, a Bengali singer from the small hilltribe state of Meghalaya and the judges’ favourite.

Tamang's surprise win sparked unrest in India’s troubled north-east region where supporters of Paul attacked Nepalese in Shillong town, the capital of Meghalaya. The violence was later exacerbated by a Delhi radio DJ who made allegedly “insulting” comments about Tamang and the Gurkha population from which he is descended.

1 comment:

mark hoback said...

Nice place you got around here. I'd hate to, you know, see someone come in here and mess it up. So choose your sects with a little candor, wouldja?