Slum,dogs indeed

The Slumdog kids are back home.

Life is still the same, no glitz.... no glamour. They tasted honey for a few days, and then the rug was yanked off their feet.

I wrote a letter to Gulf News on how our patriotic Indians took note of this film being very derogatory to Indians and India as a whole. They said Indians lead better lives than what was portrayed. That calling them 'slumdog' was itself insulting. The slums were not like how it was shot in the film.

Then why were there slums? Why did they keep growing in size? Why does Dharavi still hold its long standing record?. Why can't we do something about it?

Why should we? Would helping slum dwellers help us? Would it help change the economy? They were meant to live and die there, so let them be. Remember how the beatles song goes?...

Let it be, let it be...There will be an answer, let it be.

So now the kids are back, back to their lives in the slums. The report here tells of a very tragic case of 2 heartbroken kids who have no more dreams that can be fulfilled. Their lives are the same. They still wear their Oscar clothes.

The Oscars are over, the curtains have drawn to a close.

They still remain the slumdogs that they were. Bravo to all the indians out there, you have made them remain the dogs that they are while paying lip service to them about being verbally insulted....

Two-faced poker-faced Indians, I salute you.