Shilpa Shetty
LONDON: Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has won Channel 4’s reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother and bagged an estimated 100,000 pounds in prize money. More.
Before I got bored by the chain of events, I was puzzled that one of the first riots over the insults against Shetty took place in my hometown Patna. Here is a link to a piece by Hari Kunzru that I had enjoyed reading, especially his sly ethnography of the Indian middle class, and while I’m in the mood let me supply the link to another piece which you might also already be familiar with, this one by Germaine Greer, who is slightly comical in her righteousness here, not because her politics are wrong but because her strident claim to knowledge is so very whatever-is-the-opposite-of-postcolonial.
