The author William Dalrymple put a totally new spin to the Kaavya Viswanathan disgrace last night. He was saying on television that Kaavya was just another example of 'Ruthless Asian Babes' who would do anything to achieve what they want: success, money, recognition, whatever.
Dalrymple also included Faria Alam, the football association secretary of Bengali and Pakistani descent who stumped Sven-Goran Eriksson; and Joyti De-Laurey, the Goldman Sachs secretary of Indian origin accused of stealing £4,404,678.
That set yours truly thinking. Who else would qualify as a Ruthless Asian Babe?
Preetii Jain, who singed Madhur Bhandarkar? Zaheera Shaikh, who tried to eat the cake and the bakery? Our own Lakshmi Pandit, Dr B.V. Rajagopal's daughter, who was stripped off the Miss India crown for being married?
What do you think? Is Dalrymple right, wrong or sexist? Who will qualify as a Ruthless Asian Babe in your opinion? Leave a comment.
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No 1 Ruthless Asian babe if we see from Indian perspective goes to Arudhthi Roy for peeping into Narmada bachao andolan and try to become TV babe sidelining Medha Patkar.
No 2 May be J.Jayalalitha, to get a poll aliance parner like Vaiko even though she only implicated him in TADA case and send to Jail for more than 1 Year.
1) Barkha Datt (if you’ve heard of the ‘real’ story of her Kargil exploits)
2) Priyanka Chopra (if you’ve heard of the Amar Singh tapes)
3) Mallika Sherawat (if you’ve just heard her).
Its time we booted freebooters like Mr. Dalrymple out of India.
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A Racist/sexist comment, no doubt.
In addition to what I said in my blog, I should add that Dalrymple’s statement is in very poor taste. For all her faults, this kid shouldn’t be put in a list along with Farina Alam. I also wish Churumuri had taken a stronger stand vis a vis the statement instead of seeking nominations for ruthless Asian babe category. Perhaps on another day that would be something to take up although I doubt that too.
as they say jetti biddroo meese maNNaaglilla
only dalrymple is no jetti and has no meese.
he only has his jettis twisted over the bhaara that is left over from the rajyabhaara.