Friday, September 15, 2006

Lage Raho MunnaBhai and Gandhian philosophy

Do you think that movie 'Lage Raho MunnaBhai' will succeed in spreading the message of truth, non-violence and satyagraha(which form the basic ethos of the Gandhian philosophy) among youths?

Z-girl said...
I haven't seen this movie yet, but g andhian principles being implemented in this day and age, seems to be difficult. I'd love to see that happening though, i have great respect for the father of our nation.

zady said...
it is a matter of packaging...everythinhg sells in today's world

lavina said...
well, havnt watched d movie..........but then these days, the youth gets attrated to anything presented well.......say for example RDB..........the one liner ....."koi bhi desh perfect nai hota, use perfect banana padta hai"...............i donno if the words are correct but the essence is........ cheers and have great weekend ahead.......... ciao

Divya said...
I have not seen the movie yet :( And well I shall comment after I am done seeing the movie :P I don't really think it can really help...but then, lemme see after watching! Rang De Basanti had quite an effect on many youngsters..........perhaps Lage Raho MunnaBhai could also have a similar effect After watching movie Divya says: I saw the movie today.....*cheers* And it is one amazing movie...I think it can create a sort of impact - maybe not to the extent that people will stop accepting bribes and all....and definitely not that people will smile when someone spits on their walls and clean it....but perhaps people themselves will stop spitting or something like that....letz jus wait and watch ;) Divya has mentioned an incident.....please see comment for details

Surabhi said...
hvnt watched d movie yet.....but nethng presented well sells dese days....n its the ryt way to put forth ones beliefs....i thnk it will work!!

Rajesh (KachraKing) said...
Absolutly .. message was clear in the movie, I would suggest everyone to watch it and I am sure ppl would start thinking that I should start telling truth that would resolve all the problems. I have seen some ppl who had made a attempt to do that after the movie ....

anjali said...
datz amazing storyline..............very intelligent scriptwriting................and wat a message........ and very successfully conveyed................ tc bye

Sharad said...
A little bit bcoz most of the people do not take these things seriously.

Wisedonkey said...
No

BV said...
I saw the movie this weekend, its amazing as Divya said if we all go out and set such examples, instead of pretending to be cool by our care not dare not attitude, our country may see some reforms in social ethos atleast.

Tejbir said...
why hasn't man become extinct? only because of the principle of truth which gives rise to many others forms - non-violence/satyagrah etc wipe off truth 100% and next moment we'd have a supernova explosion "the end"

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Anonymous said...

Hello shrawan,

I haven't seen this movie yet, but g andhian principles being implemented in this day and age, seems to be difficult. I'd love to see that happening though, i have great respect for the father of our nation.

Anonymous said...

it is a matter of packaging...everythinhg sells in today's world

Anonymous said...

hey hi Shrawan
how are u buddy??
well, havnt watched d movie..........but then these days, the youth gets attrated to anything presented well.......say for example RDB..........the one liner ....."koi bhi desh perfect nai hota, use perfect banana padta hai"...............i donno if the words are correct but the essence is........
cheers and have great weekend ahead..........
ciao

Anonymous said...

I have not seen the movie yet :(
And well I shall comment after I am done seeing the movie :P
I don't really think it can really help...but then, lemme see after watching!
Rang De Basanti had quite an effect on many youngsters..........perhaps Lage Raho MunnaBhai could also have a similar effect......

Love,
Divya

Anonymous said...

hvnt watched d movie yet.....but nethng presented well sells dese days....n its the ryt way to put forth ones beliefs....i thnk it will work!!

Anonymous said...

I havent seen the movie yet, but it could bcos Munnabhai has become an icon of a sort.

Anonymous said...

Absolutly .. message was clear in the movie, I would suggest everyone to watch it and I am sure ppl would start thinking that I should start telling truth that would resolve all the problems. I have seen some ppl who had made a attempt to do that after the movie ....

Anonymous said...

hi shrawan,
datz amazing storyline..............very intelligent scriptwriting................and wat a message........
and very successfully conveyed................
tc bye

Anonymous said...

A little bit bcoz most of the people do not take these things seriously.

Anonymous said...

I saw the movie today.....*cheers*

And it is one amazing movie...I think it can create a sort of impact - maybe not to the extent that people will stop accepting bribes and all....and definitely not that people will smile when someone spits on their walls and clean it....but perhaps people themselves will stop spitting or something like that....letz jus wait and watch ;)

Love,
Divya
I forgot to mention...once I was travelling via metro and there was a lady there with her 2 kids and they were eating bananas and the lady threw the peels on the train itself :|
An old man saw them and asked the lady to pick it up and throw it later...but the lady pretended not to hear it and she just looked away trying not to meet the eyes of the passengers staring at her :D
The old man just sighed and he himself picked up the peels and then threw them once they got down at the station....the lady was real embarassed and apologised to that man ;)

I think if there were more people like this old man, our nation would indeed be a better place :D

Love,
Divya

Anonymous said...

No

Anonymous said...

I saw the movie this weekend, its amazing as Divya said if we all go out and set such examples, instead of pretending to be cool by our care not dare not attitude, our country may see some reforms in social ethos atleast.

Anonymous said...

the question that should be thrown upon all of us is whether we DARE TO CARE or not ??!!!

Love,
Divya

Anonymous said...

why hasn't man become extinct?
only because of the principle of truth
which gives rise to many others forms - non-violence/satyagrah etc

wipe off truth 100% and next moment we'd have a supernova explosion
"the end"

Anonymous said...

List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got the statistics.

This list is not in the order of importance, that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.

This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc) who were being racially discriminated.

Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?

This list cover a period of about 49 years since independence (1957).

List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):

(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by malays

(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays

(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese

(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by malays

(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be bumis status

(6) 0% of non-malay staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malay staffs in Chinese companies

(7) 5% of all new intake for government army, nurses, polices, is non-malays

(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960

(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%

(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960

(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays

(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by malay government e.g. Approved permits, Taxi permits, etc

(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers

(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. MISC, UMBC, UTC, etc

(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to rejection by malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses

(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given

(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)

(18) 8000 billion ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period

(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000

(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got 96.5%

(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible

(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are malays

(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004

(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government scholarships over 40 years

(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy"

(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired e.g. Medicine (in 2004)

(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% malays

(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003

(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957

(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% in 1957

(33) 2 million Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago

(34) 0.5 million Indian Malaysians had emigrated to overseas

(35) 3 million Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status

(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indian Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians

(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house, regardless whether the malay is poor or rich

(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what malay villages got for rural development budget

(39) 50 road names (at least) had been changed from Chinese names to other names

(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort

(41) 0 churches/temples were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built

(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No churches, no temples are required to be built in housing estates

(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004

(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)

(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malay origins

(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less

(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969

(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed

(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s

(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960

(51) 0 - elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s

(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance attendances treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200

(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record

(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down malays were seriously assaulted or killed by malays

(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum

There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of "colossal" racism. It is hope that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism.

Malaysia government should publish statistics showing how much malays had benefited from the "special rights" of malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated.

Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysia government itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.

If the Malaysia government hides the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, shameful doings and sinful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the non-malays of Malaysia.

Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on its minority races. This is what Malaysia must publish……….

We are asking for the publication of the statistics showing how "implementation of special rights of malays" had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto non-malays.