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To: JPR who wrote (10707)	2/16/2000 2:27:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

London Beat:The case of Night-vision Goggles and goo-goo eyes It is all a mistake. The gentleman got lost and pulled in to a blind alley in London, named Camley Street. He didn't know how he ended up on that street. He was looking at a London Street Map just to get his bearings right. Lo and behold, the goo-goo eyed bobby popped in to the car and flashed a light, while the gentleman was studying the map and an uninvited women was committing a sex act on him. There was a lot of noise and friction as police described it as a lot of shouting and confusion. The gentleman flashed his diplomatic credentials to the stunned uninvited women down on her knees and the stooped stiff-upper-lip bobby. When the sun rose, SUN - the newspaper was out with the story. All sides were considering their options. The Embassy says that the map reader was a senior Pakistani diplomat and the stunned woman was a trumpet player. It was claimed by some unknown embassy official that the BOBBIES were actually BOOBIES to know the difference between a map reader and a customer. The Bobbies said "how was it possible that the diplomat was reading the map in the pitch dark car in a red-light district and what was the woman doing on her knees". The bobbies didn't know that the diplomat was wearing night-vision goggles to read the street map and the woman was playing the trumpet.

To: JPR who wrote (10707)	2/21/2000 9:05:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

WATER WHETTS the Thirst of all participants and may flow into parliament---JPR excerpt Hailing her as a `videshi' woman, Mishra wonders why people are more bothered about the freedom of expression of a foreigner, rather than the sentiments of``asankhya (countless) Indians.' timesofindia.com 'Water' battle to be taken to Parliament The Times of India News Service NEW DELHI: Water has reached the Capital and might soon be flowing on the floors of Parliament too. Addressing a press conference on Monday, representatives of the Kashi Vidwat Parishad, the Kashi Sanskriti Raksha Sangharsh Samiti (KSRSS) and the Sanskar Bharti said they would like Deepa Mehta's controversial film script to be tabled in Parliament and set the stage for a national debate on its ``anti-Hindu, anti-Kashi, anti-Bharatiya sanskriti' tone. According to Shailendra Nath Srivastava, Sanskar Bharti president, the shooting of the film would not be allowed anywhere in the country since it was ``an explosion of obscenity, a denigration of womanhood and an attack on Bharatiya sanskriti.' So what if the filmmaker had deleted certain objectionable portions. ``Changing mere words does not change the sentiments behind the film,' he says. And the sentiment? ``Dharma parivartan,' explains Kaushal Kihore Mishra, KSRSS spokesperson. ``The script has not been written by Deepa Mehta,' alleges Mishra. ``She does not have the intelligence to write such a devious script. This is a larger shadyantra (conspiracy) by the Christian world in this ongoing clash of civilisations,' he adds. Hailing her as a `videshi' woman, Mishra wonders why people are more bothered about the freedom of expression of a foreigner, rather than the sentiments of ``asankhya (countless) Indians.' The protests are sundry. How can she depict vidhwas (widows) as vaishyas (prostitutes)? How can she show a seven-year-old widow's head being shaved and bangles being broken in a crematorium, specially since ``women are not allowed to enter a crematorium,' says Mishra. And how can she she describe ``entire Kashi as a vaishya?' he queries. Mehta, actually describes it as an ``overdressed dowager.' In fact, they even question the nature of support the filmmaker has been able to muster. ``Look at the kind of people who are supporting her: the leftists and the prostitutes', points out Srivastava. According to them, the government will now have to make a choice and decide whether to revoke its permission for the film by answering this simple question: ``Kya woh ek Kanadian (Canadian) mahila ki chinta karenge ya is desh ki janta ki?'