The piss-take of the guru scene in India is done pretty well, and the plot is ambitious. For your average consicousness it is a bit surreal, and some of it will be beyond the average audience.

However, it says something for the Indian middle-classes these days that they will turn up and watch this type of movie. I recommend trying to see it if you can, but bear in mind its length and that the best part of the movie is towards the end.

I am sure until time runs out, Osho’s birth and death will be celebrated just as other spiritual leaders who moved consciousness on a little.

Whether they would have wanted that is open to question. Each day has to be a celebration and each day is new and must, as a consequence, be treated equally.

Satire has been a literary phenomenon in India since the 1700s (about the same time the British were reading Jonathan Swift). Indians have used satire as social criticism and have also used satire as a weapon against westernisation.

Satire has been expressed through Indian poetry, prose, humorous writings, and letters. It is not as if satire is just arriving on the subcontinent.

Maybe I should check google, where it leads when I write Neo Sannyas….

First, and one hopes the subject for cartoonists:
The banning of building snowmen. There has been snow for the last three seasons in Northern Saudi Arabia, and a cleric has said building snowmen by children and their parents is anti-Islamic.

Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country’s north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: “It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun.”

Quoting from Muslim scholars, Sheikh Munajjid argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human being, an action considered sinful under the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Sunni Islam.

“God has given people space to make whatever they want which does not have a soul, including trees, ships, fruits, buildings and so on,” he wrote in his ruling.

Second, this poor guy who is not even a cartoonist, just started a website criticising the authorities. Punished by 1000 lashes in public, 50 a go weekly, and ten years in prison.

Remember his name: Raif Badawi. How on earth the UK and US governments can trade and interact with these monsters is beyond me. It’s all money, profit in arms and oil sales, etc. We need an ‘ethical’ foreign policy not based on monetary greed.

There is an ‘Amnesty International’ campaign to help Raif Badawi, do join it.
Irrespective of what the Pope says, we need more satire, not less. This satire about the PK movie is okay stuff. May satire continue to spread in all the dictatorships of the world.

Here’s a film that’s not satirical and will raise little laughter.

I like it.

http://putlocker.tn/cowspiracy-the-sustainability-secret/