When asked by the Host, what is your favourite food? Miss India replied “Thai food”. Her answer surprised the host who asked, “what even better than Indian food?” (For those of you who do not know, Indian food is the most popular food in England today and has been named as the national food).

Miss India then said, “ I’ve been eating Indian food for the last twenty years anyway, so I prefer something different.” The next question was “Which is your most favourite place in the world?” Miss India’s reply was “Paris”.

Miss India’s final question was “Who do you admire the most?” Miss India quoted “Audhrey Hepburn” as her inspiration.

Now can someone please explain to me why a woman who is representing her country to the outside world, cannot find any inspiration to be proud of within her own country. Is this how an Ambassador represents their country, I think not?

A Few days later after the Miss World competition, I was listening to one of Britain’s largest Radio chat shows called Talk Radio and an Indian man phoned up and said to the presenter “you must admit now that Indian women are the most beautiful in the world” The radio presenter replied “Yeah, I know and the best thing is that they all know the rules of the Kama Sutra.”

Previously the former Miss Universe, Sushmita Sen was asked on lunchtime television “What type of man would you like?” Her reply was “A man who is really good in bed”. (By the way I read today, that Sen is Yukta Mookhey’s role model).

Could someone please tell me what respect have these so called Ambassadors of India brought to India and especially to their fellow women?

Lets face it Indian womanhood is in danger, one only has to go to the night-clubs in Mumbai or Delhi to know how “cultured” our women are. And lets not forget Nina Gupta the famous Mumbai actress, who after having a one nightstand with Vivian Richards the West Indian Cricket Captain was left pregnant and proud of it.

Oh yeah! There’s also the well-known erotic writer Shobha De, who once said “I do not allow my own children to read my books” Then there’s Mira Nair the film director who made that third grade film “Kama Sutra”, believing that the Western world would be impressed. America banned the film calling it “Pornographic” and England allowed limited release and now we have Deepa Mehta who made that insulting lesbian film “fire”. Both of these films flopped at the box office.

Five or six years’ ago, I remember there was an article in one of Britain’s leading newspapers “The Guardian” about the growing problems of adultery amongst married middle aged London City executives carrying on with young Indian girls who are in their employment (you can check the archives in the newspaper’s website if you don’t believe me).
And one of the most disgraceful episodes in the previous years was the one of an Ex-Miss India “Pamela Bordes” who became famous for being a high class call girl of British high society.

Now if anyone thinks that the new or any previous Miss Worlds is admired not only for their beauty, but also for their intelligence and culture, then that person should really think again! Lets get one thing straight, I don’t personally need a Miss World competition to tell me that my women are beautiful, because I already know that every single Indian woman is beautiful.

We already have “Bollywood” doing seventy five percent of the damage to our females (and males), so do you really want your sisters and daughters to look up to and be inspired by Miss World, Universe etc?

Even in the western world such competitions are viewed as being degrading to women. The fashion and Beauty industry is very well known for its vices and scandals that go on behind the scenes, but we as Indians should know even better. We worship India as a woman (Bharat Mata).

Lord Krishna has said that women are the “pillars of society, if they become corrupted, then the whole of society comes crumbling down.”

Anyone knows that to destroy a civilisation, you start by destroying the women first. We only have to look back to our own history to know that. All these so-called, ”role models” are product of the western slave minded culture that is prevailing among Indians in India and abroad. Don’t get me wrong, Believe me, if you met me, you’d know that I’m not a old fashioned male chauvinist or some Hindu fanatic, I am just trying to highlight the problems that I see every day which are slowly destroying us.


From Arjun.


P.S. Vishal, if this message is to crude or offensive,please edit it or delete it.thanks.

in the country where woman are honoured, learned men are born... i think it was manu rshi who said that...
but with this 'honour' consequences hae come too... the indian youth, mainly girls, see western values and culture as a form of liberation from the grounding traditions and culture they are born in too...

a sad developement...
even more pronounced in NRI families...

Ashegun,
If I wrote everything I personally know about these "sad" developments,then people may start to realise the true extent of "the crumbling down" of our women.Its not only happening to Indians living abroad but the situation in India itself is disgraceful. My cousin just returned from India where he stayed in Mumbai for a week. He could not believe the lows of Indian womanhood that has reached in India and in every other major city or town in India. In Mumbai he visited many clubs and he was amazed at the activities that were taking place. Even here in England such things dont take place.
Dont get me wrong not everything in Western society is bad, for eg. technology ,governmental systems, welfare state system, health systems, transportation and decent roads etc, but the trouble with our people (especially the Indian youth ) seem to follow only the vices of western society. For eg. yesterday on the BBC news there was a report about asian youths being stopped and searched for drugs and the saddest thing was that about 90% of them were found with drugs !!!.So you see the situation is in chaos

from Arjun

Mr. Arjun,

Western influence is slowly corrupting our youths. We in Malaysia face the same problem with youth. We Indians make up only 9-10 % of the population, but leading in gangsterism with 40%and 2nd in drugs with 30%, particularly Hindus. The police released this statistics. Last year the deputy home minister called upon Indian leaders to do something for the Indian society to curb vice activities.

No one knows exactly how to curb the vice activities. It is increasing day by day. My only believe is that only through proper religious understanding and practice could save Hindus from the doldrums, which is lacking everywhere. Majority of the people are temple followers and study nothing about religion but attend temple prayers on fridays. The priest community rules here. Anything the priest says is right for the people. Identifying the priest as wrong may end up one as trouble maker.

Thandabani

Dear Arjun,

You are certainly right about Mira Nair's "Kama Sutra." She fooled American media and misled audiences (myself included) that it was something other than pornography. BTW, it was NOT banned in America. I did enjoy "Mississippi Masala," however.

To your list, I would add Arundhati Roy and her socially unredeeming novel "The God of Small Things."

OM shanti,
Julie Maitra
The Sanatana Dharma Page
http://www.hinduweb.org/home/general_sites/jmaitra/

arjun, it will take time for us to sift what's good in the west... what we take and what we reject.. that is what we've done for thousands of years.. i believe even in the western world, this low depiction of women will eventually swing back to modesty...

if its any reassurance, i don't allow my sister and girl-cousins to wear anything that doesn't cover the knees and/or elbows, or anything clingy and transparent.. it might sound tough, but i think its protected my family from going the direction of other ones around us, which is just downwards to decadence of the great indian culture...