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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India-born becomes BBC chief<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I know the kind of 'Hindu' Indians that make it in the BBC. Well, BBC News anyway. Don't know what the other branches are like.
The most illustrative case: When there was a stampede or something in a Delhi or North Indian temple a year or two back, it was reported on the BBC World News - the South Asian slot by a 'Gita Subramaniam/Swaminathan/S...' (something typically Tamil, Hindu). With a calculated precision that is amazing even to recall, she would make certain to refer to the temple as a 'Hindi' temple and the devotees who died in the stampede as the 'Hindi' devotees; and then just to clarify it was not the language she was talking about, these devotees were of the 'Hindi' religion.
Gita S was probably trying to make sure the very progressive viewers understood she didn't belong to this 'primitive' religion where people got stampeded. Yeah, I got it: she isn't in any way connected to Hinduism even though she has a very Hindu name.
Now, if she were to have spelled the word out, would she have spelled it Hindoo instead of Hindi? Colonial-British in all but name and looks and colour. I'm sorry for her Hindu ancestors.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->India-born becomes BBC chief<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I know the kind of 'Hindu' Indians that make it in the BBC. Well, BBC News anyway. Don't know what the other branches are like.
The most illustrative case: When there was a stampede or something in a Delhi or North Indian temple a year or two back, it was reported on the BBC World News - the South Asian slot by a 'Gita Subramaniam/Swaminathan/S...' (something typically Tamil, Hindu). With a calculated precision that is amazing even to recall, she would make certain to refer to the temple as a 'Hindi' temple and the devotees who died in the stampede as the 'Hindi' devotees; and then just to clarify it was not the language she was talking about, these devotees were of the 'Hindi' religion.
Gita S was probably trying to make sure the very progressive viewers understood she didn't belong to this 'primitive' religion where people got stampeded. Yeah, I got it: she isn't in any way connected to Hinduism even though she has a very Hindu name.
Now, if she were to have spelled the word out, would she have spelled it Hindoo instead of Hindi? Colonial-British in all but name and looks and colour. I'm sorry for her Hindu ancestors.