Thursday, August 27, 2009

grotesque story: standard nytimes stuff re india

aug 26th, 2009

 
truly bizarre story. is this like newly recession-hit middle-class women taking to prostitution to survive in the US?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The article would have been atleast remotely credible if the title had mentioned Punjab instead of entire India.

Julian said...

Usual bs frm NYT, sensationalizing some marginal phenomenon.

Womens boxing is a joke as is womens MMA & a bunch of other sports except Tennis, thats why you need the NBA to subsidize the WNBA because no one cares about it, not even other women.

Only woman boxer most people even know is Laila Ali & thats because of her last name.

The day you will see a female boxer with the skills of Pacman or a female MMA fighter with the skills of Fedor, you will also see pigs fly.

AGworld said...

I opened the page, saw "somini sengupta", and closed the page.

You cannot expect a sewer to discharge amrit.

sands said...

I dunno whats fuss with you guyz with this article ?? i know somini sengupta is staunch anti hindu .. etc etc etc but seriously are guyz telling me that india should not aim to get more medal at the olympics ?? please clarify ...Rajeev and gang ?? has lalit modi god forbid bribed or co-opted you as well :-) as he has the entire mainstream media into giving undue coverage to IPL where all "khans" of the world flaunt the vulgar display of wealth I am shocked rajeev you too under lalit modi spell ???

Cheers
Sandeep

nizhal yoddha said...

are you kidding me? this must be the most anti-cricket blog around! you obviously don't read it.

why isn't sengupta writing an article about how white guys are constantly imprisoning, raping and impregnating young women? first there was the guy in austria, now there's the guy in antioch, ca. by that bimbo (sengupta)'s standards, this must be a new trend.

sands said...

Common rajeev now we are getting nowhere !!What do i need to do to prove that i am follower of this blog !!! and appreciate your sincere efforts to highlight the hindu view on all things ...amidst the gloom

Obviously lets agree to disagree that you have blind spot when it comes to sport !! I mean SPORTS not cricket .. I was just so angry with media going overboard with things like IPL

India Needs to develop Olympic sports !!! and devlop them Big time !!!
If you disagree with this then fine

Julian said...

Sorry I don't know what gave you the idea that I care about cricket, i don't even consider it a sport.

I was just pointing out how they blew this thing out of proportion, as an avid fan of combat sports (boxing, MMA, K1, Thai Boxing) i can say without any exaggeration that the womens divisions are mostly a joke. If you are a lower level fighter you can forget about making much money, the only women making good money is people like Laila Ali through their last name or Gina Carano through her looks.

As for India & Olympics, don't hold your breath, some things never change.