The MVC pattern of Indency

The MVC pattern of Indency

Actress Shriya Saran apologises to some "katchi" for having worn a dress that they thought offended Hindu culture. Given the treatment meted out to other film actresses in that region, it is not surprising that the actress wants to get out of this mess that someone else wants to exploit for obviously political reasons.

In fact, the blowing up of any random incident involving a soft-target into an offence against some culture is so easy and commonplace these days that I am surprised it doesn't happen each day, each minute. For instance, any katchi/dal/sangh/party worth its cut-out just has to walk up to a cinema hall and see the posters for the average Indian commercial movie: if Shriya's attire offended Hinduism, then the huge success of these masala movies has completely undermined civilisation as we know it. For that matter, Harbhajan Singh's comparison of Symonds to a monkey, which Chetan Chauhan said was fine since Indians venerate the animal, was also offensive to Hindus: imagine worshipping that dreadlocked, zinc-creamed avatar!

I hereby detect a Model-View-Controller pattern to this: Someone, usually a model, shows up and does something. A katchi Views him/her. Calculates the odds of this being a soft target and and easy kill. If yes, proceeds to take "Control" the situation.