Pamela Anderson enters the "Big Brother" Indian, punctuated by controversy

New Delhi, November 18. - Wearing a white sari, the former sex symbol Pamela Anderson is living in seclusion in an exotic India India's version of "Big Brother", a program in the center of the controversy over the foul language that is employed.
Anderson, 43, famous for her role as a lifeguard in the series "Baywatch" on Tuesday entered the program for three days in an attempt by the chain that broadcasts the program, Colors, to relaunch the audience .
The actress appeared jeweled chests and marking and greeted with a "Namaste" (hello) to their peers, though certainly not unleash the libido of the conservative India: the country's media as one of the conditions imposed to enter is not displayed in a bikini.
"I am very excited to go to India and meet all the housemates of Big Brother. It is actually my first visit, so I hope to have some impressions of the country during my stay, "Anderson said this week in a statement.
Present in many countries, "Big Brother" reality show is a competition consisting of continuous monitoring with television cameras for several months a group of participants confined in a house 24 hours a day.
Anderson's arrival, however, has not been produced in good time: Wednesday, the Government of India decided to restrict the broadcast to the strip at night, given the coarse language and lavished caresses that its contestants.
In India, any public reference to sex is taboo, hence the mere fact that a contestant nude show for a few seconds or a loving kiss on the cheek with a partner have been enough to unleash a wave of complaints.
In recent weeks, the Indian media had echoed the ongoing discussions taking place in the contest, called "Bigg Boss" and in its fourth edition, with the contestants engaged in heavy crosses language or sexual references.
The filmmakers used to superimpose beeps to prevent insults and swear words were audible, but the jingles have been on this very fluently and foul language that "could not cover everything," as one of the contestants.
"I'll break your face", "You're a whore", "will sell for 75,000 rupees" or "dog keeps barking," are some of the "pearls" that between beeps, made ​​famous contestant Dolly Bindra , actress now expelled for disciplinary reasons.
The Indian version of "Big Brother" contestants usually recruit between second row and famous people connected with the world of film and television, and as some of them know each other, it is customary air out dirty laundry.
In view of the drift that has taken the program, government intervention has generated praise from actors guild itself, usually on alert for any hint of censorship by the authorities a prone to over-zealous.
"I have not always agreed with some of the previous criteria for censorship. But I think this is a good intervention of the Ministry, "he said on Twitter the popular presenter Mandira Bedi India.
So far, "Bigg Boss" was issued at 21.00, on a schedule and family considered in competition with India's version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", and critics charged that the program was having a deleterious effect on the student population.
With the order of the Ministry of Information and Television, both "Bigg Boss" as another program, "Justice Rakhi", will be issued between 23.00 and 05.00 in the morning, and channels may not promote emissions outside the schedule.
However, the order will not take effect until at least next Monday, as the chain that emits "Bigg Boss", Colors, won today's Court of Bombay a suspension of the measure until that day, while studying the appeal by the channel.
And by then, Pamela, who according to Indian media has been allowed to see sweeping and can not "hide" their wrinkles, is already far from the study, with about two million dollars that has been pocketed, adds the press, to participate therein.

The Indian untouchable leader ordered to change his statue to be "small"

New Delhi, July 1, 2008. - The always controversial Mayawati, the most powerful untouchable leader of India, has revived talk with your order to erect a statue erected in his honor, just inaugurate, order the differ even bigger bust.
The operators took advantage of a Sunday morning to remove a park of Lucknow (North India) the statue of their leader, who had been installed just six weeks ago along with other leaders untouchable, as Kanshi Ram.
"Kanshi Ram always said he would be happy to install my statue next to his. So I decided to build it to meet their wishes, "Mayawati is justified then.
But the final design of the statue, nearly four feet, should not have to convince the untouchable leader, ordered a retreat for a few hours after the opening ceremony.
"He saw that his statue was smaller than that of Kanshi Ram and ordered change. This is the first time a living person and the power used government money to build a statue of their own. This is not appropriate or ethical, and lawful, "he told Efe a training opposition leader Om Prakash Singh BJP.
Mayawati, 1.52 meters high, ruling the region of Uttar Pradesh (north), which has about 166 million inhabitants, both as the union of Spain, France, Italy and Portugal, and is among the poorest and most underdeveloped country.
Upon arrival at the regional government in the mid-nineties, Mayawati spent 5,000 million rupees (73 million euros or 115 million dollars) to build the regional capital, Lucknow, a park dedicated to the father of the Constitution India, Bhimrao Ambedkar on untouchability.
The Ambedkar memorial has structures "to last 1,000 years" and is home to statues of the leaders of the untouchable community (about 160 million Indians), prone to cult leader and preaching "equality" of his flagship, Mayawati.
The "Dalits" or untouchables are still the most discriminated community in the rigid Hindu social scale, although the caste system was abolished by the Constitution of Ambedkar in 1951.
Although still subject to discrimination, the "Dalits" were traditionally denied access to holy places and had to engage in tasks considered "impure" by the other castes, who avoided contact with even his shadow "spotted".
Their leader Mayawati truffle speeches with mentions of "social justice" and the defense of the quota system that favors the social integration of the untouchables, it does not prevent a propensity to luxury and splendor in his personal honor.
In his last birthday, Mayawati (52 years) received ten tons of flowers, a plane, a million cupcakes and diamonds courtesy of its officials, government buildings were illuminated and entertained until the officer with a helicopter.
"People show respect, affection and love. Everyone should be happy, "he said last January, before the television cameras the flirtatious Mayawati.
And besides, he added: "I decided to celebrate my birthday with simplicity."
The untouchable began his fourth term in Uttar Pradesh last year, despite allegations of corruption brought against them and their growing wealth-some $ 13 million, 8.2 million euros, which gives grants to his followers .
In five years, the untouchable leader has increased 4,600 percent a fortune declared, has regularly shown his passion for jewelry and has not hesitated to pay public money events held in his honor and to statues like that again , looks at Lucknow.
Those who walk around the Ambedkar Memorial, Lucknow, and can see the legacy bronze with which Mayawati wants to be remembered: a mass of 18 tons, 4.5 meters tall and almost 635,000 public cost of euros (more than one million).
The statue in the park is now larger, has slightly different facial features and a shoulder bag.

Indian Art: Where is Hussain?

"Art is a very good investment in India. Shopping in a few years now and the value is multiplied, "he has a gallery on the first International Art Fair in India. The organizers take chest by list of artists, over 200, and 35 leading galer ies that are represented in the Trade Fair in New Delhi, better known as Pragati Maidan.

The welcome given by a car made ​​with skeletons paste, to which visitors, unaccustomed to contemporary art, taking photos with smiles. After loitering for the jobs of the galleries, where abstract paintings are interspersed with experimental portraits of Gandhi and other reasons which prove the existence of an "Indian way" for contemporary art.

The artists roam sandals give visitors little more elegant to ensure their sensitivity squeals from the crowd. A fair, it seems, the most homologous with the West. "The Indian market 'says in a statement the organization-has grown by 485 percent in the last decade, making it the fourth most buoyant in the world."

And business people rush to buy Souzas of HTAs me of Burmans, new names that are slowly populating the walls busiest in India. In all but one: MF Husain, the most media coverage of the painters, who has become the center of controversy ... without being present in the sample.

"We did get a warning (to the galleries) of the real risk of including Husain" he told the Hindustan Times Sunil Gautam, director of the organization. "The exposure is worth millions of dollars and thousands of visitors."

But Husain is a dangerous man? ¿Threatens his professional colleagues, destroys their works? Far from reality: Husain, 93 and known as the "Picasso of India", lives between Dubai and London and want to return home, but can not.

What he fears the organization, in fact, is that exposure of any of his paintings attract the attention and ire of the "moral police" India, the name given in India conservative groups trying to maintain a strictly-for them and others, the tradition and standards of "decency" in the country.

T o Husain, the problems began in 1996, in his eighties, coinciding with the publication in a magazine several nude portraits of Hindu goddesses made ​​in the seventies. The article, entitled "A painter of flesh", was the presentation of eight complaints against the artist for "inciting religious hatred."

Although the charges were later dismissed by the courts, Husain received death threats and his house was attacked by a group of Hindu radicals destroyed several of his works. The painter left India and now in exile, he saw from afar a new controversy, this time a couple of years.

The painting in question, "Bharat Mata" ("Mother India"), depicting a naked woman superimposed on the map of India and the names of some parts written in your body. Was displayed in an exhibition on Kashmir, and automatically received criticism from Hindu groups like the VHP (World Hindu Organization).

The painter apologized for his work, promised to withdraw from the auction s and since then awaits his chance to return to India. "The only way is perhaps the Conservatives return to power Hindus" he said recently, hoping that they could control their own members to avoid attacks on this "old man".

But Husain is actually just one of the sights of the most radical organizations in India, as the RSS, the Shiv Sena or VHP on the Hindu and the SIMI and fundamentalist clerics at the head Muslim.

Their activities, and other groups of fast nerve-van since the sack of newspaper offices for publishing articles disadvantages to destroying movie theaters to project films considered offensive. His list includes "cheer-leaders" of cricket, the caricatur ists bold or foul-mouthed actors.

Thus, the Muslim tennis player Sania Mirza in India does not play by the criticism of the apparel, the writer Taslima Nasreen had to leave Calcutta for his criticism of Muslims, actress Khusboo threw tomatoes to break a lance in favor of sex premarital ...

A long statement, in short, of offenses against the tradition that often ends with the apologies of the characters, prior violence or court action. "I understand the organizers of the art show, is resigned Husain, aimed at reconciling or Stockholm syndrome. In India there are 2,500 complaints against me. "

Shortly before the start of the exhibition, the Ministry of Culture issued a commu nicated denial "have been consulted about the artists in the exhibition." In other words, praising the freedom of expression appropriate vechando this time the buck was from another: "We would be happy if all the great artists, including paintings by Husain, were represented."

This time, the painter has been supported by the organization of artists SAHMAT, which has organized an exhibition solidarity parallel where there are 20 of his works, but for now the champions of the moral police have issued a verdict.

By the way, in the pompous India Art Fair, where a box of cockroaches vanguard entertains visitors or where the outline of a train station marks the colorism of Indian painting, the first Indian Art Fair, I say, there many portraits of women in sari, but not a single naked.

Photographs: MF Husain, his "Bharat Mata", an untouchable flees after being stripped for protesting.