By this is a very popular series on the BBC where they interview famous people and give them a challenge to give a speech or a demonstration. In this series the winner of the quiz was “Sri Sri Ravi Shankar” after he managed to find the right words to describe the many things that he loves about India.
This is an interesting series, and I have to admit I’m finding the quiz very entertaining. But as it is an interesting series, it’s also a little disturbing to read that the quiz winner got a lot of criticism for his speech. I wonder if they think he has a lot of opinions about the country he lives in and feels threatened by an increasing nationalism with the India-Pakistan conflict.
While I think it’s kind of a stretch to think the Indian government would give a speech like that, the fact is that the Indian government does not always feel threatened by the increasing nationalism in its own country. A survey in 2006 found that the Indian government feels threatened by Pakistan’s growing nationalism.
One of this year’s nobel prize winners is Shashi Tharoor. I guess he’s also a little worried about growing nationalism.
Shashi Tharoor is a member of India’s parliament from Kerala. He recently made a statement that he thought Pakistan was “destroying India.” He went on to say, “Every time I go home, my wife tells me how many Indian soldiers there are, and how many Indian soldiers there are.” Well, that’s certainly a lot.
Tharoor is an outspoken critic of Pakistani policies and politicians, and has even compared the Pakistani Taliban to the Hindu extremist organisation Hindu Mahasabha. The government of the Indian state of Kerala has taken it on themselves to investigate the accusations made by Tharoor. The allegations made by Tharoor are that a few Indian leaders are hiding their true intentions to kill Hindus in Pakistan and India, and that Pakistan has a secret army that is training to assassinate Hindu leaders in India.
India has already filed a case against Tharoor, and it is being investigated by the Indian government. This is not the first time that India has been the target of a journalist who has claimed that the Indian government is hiding a secret plan to kill Hindus in India. There is another case being investigated in Kerala that is very similar.
The nobel prize goes to a Pakistani journalist who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for writing this story. His work was part of a major leak of Indian government secrets. His conviction was overturned on appeal.
In India, the nobel prize is awarded to a person who has submitted the best work of journalism on a specific topic. The prize money consists of $15,000,000.
We’re hoping this isn’t the start of a trend, but the Indian government has made it clear that no matter what happens to us, we must not be allowed to hide. We’re going to keep writing our stories and we’re going to keep writing about those who make our lives difficult. We’re going to keep fighting for the truth, for justice, and for the right to live and breathe in a free country. It’s up to us to keep doing right by the people we love.
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