No, I did not said it, our Bollywood Composer Adesh Srivastava with his friends was called “Slumdogs Indians” when they were coming out of a Los Angeles cinema after watching , yes you guessed it, Slumdogs Millionaire.

There has been reports in the newspapers as to how our so called celebrities have to face racial discrimination when they go abroad, some had to face multiple checks, one despite having a business class ticket was made to sit in economy and the cabin crew shouted at her, yet another one was given wrong direction by the airport clerk so she had to rush to catch her flight and was told very rudely that why should she be helped and that she should go back to India.A designer traveling from London to Paris with her young daughter was not given any food for her daughter despite repeated requests.

And now the Air France made 60 Indians sit in one room for 28 hours with a sandwich and a small bottle of water when their flight was delayed by one day.

Obviously there is much hue and cry about the shocking incident but remember somewhere down the line even we are responsible for being at the receiving end of of such atrocious behavior by the so called Developed Countries.

When Danny Boyle reaped a harvest of Oscars by cashing on our slums who was dancing with joy.All of us.There were some voices of dissent but in the uproarious applause they got lost.They were rightly indignant at the showcasing of our poverty and hunger . Why do Westerners always appreciate such stark picturization of our weaknesses why not show the other side, the prosperous, the rich side, the developed side.

Our entry for the Oscars Lagaan was in the finals because it satisfied their sense of dominance, the brown peasant suppressed by one of them.On the other hand the Devdas was unable to impress the jury,why because it showed the opulence, the rich both traditions and culture of real India.

It is an internationally known fact that we Indians are intelligent, hardworking and diligent but these qualities are always thrust in the background.

I do not blame an ordinary westerner who does not travel and gets his ideas about any country through cinema and if it is an Oscar winning Flick obviously his image of India and Indians is totally based on it.

Whenever we think of Africa we can recall the Ethiopian Famine images why, because we have been fed on those images, we do not know real Ethiopia.And just think who is responsible for projecting such desolate images, certainly not the Ethiopians, than obviously the same genre who is happy cashing in on hunger and poverty of the Third world.

It is high time such images get an immediate change over.