This post is courtesy an inspiration I got from this superb list of (deservedly) loathsome public figures in the US (thanks, Atanu).
I don’t have time or patience to do brief, dirty-writeups on fifty most loathsome public figures of India. I’m limiting that number to just ten.
You might disagree with my selections….
10. Manmohan Singh
Loathsome for a solitary reason: spinelessness. Everything else flows from there. Decency is not equal to cowardice. This accidental Prime Minister persists in pusillanimity despite just calls for resignation.
9. Musharraff
Admitted, he’s not an Indian but let’s give him a place in this hall because he was relevant till recently. A word suffices why he is loathsome: opportunism.
8. Girish Karnad
A bounteous intellectual career built by raping classics in the garb of literary freedom demolished by repeatedly scoring lamentable self-goals. The shameful volte face on the Bababudangiri/Datta Peeta issue pried his integrity–the lack of it–wide open. And he should have really not tried to save Tipu Sultan’s secular credentials. Tipu wasn’t around when Karnad’s bottom was irreparably thwacked. Karnad shouldn’t have invited people to loathe him.
7. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
He should have retired in silence after Khamoshi, his only intelligible movie till date. Much superior ink has been employed to show why this non-director invites our collective puke.
6. Shahrukh Khan
Just how does one get to and get away with being called King? The answer is Shahrukh Khan. He stretches the boundaries of Paid Praise beyond nausea. Together with Karan Johar, he has expensively reduced filmmaking standards to a new low. Here’s just the latest crap: a million bucks to anybody who can tell me what dard-e-disco means.
5. Shilpa Shetty
Or how to use phony grief to compensate a dead “acting” career with easy money. Her manufactured sorrow over the racism charge apart, she mouthed that a trashy show like Celebrity Big Brother was a great opportunity to “make India proud.” An out-of-work “actress” trying to honour her country by doing…I’m not sure if winning CBB is an achivement of any consequence. Shilpa Shetty deserves only our unmitigated contempt.
4. Tarun Tejpal/Tehelka
Or the sting that never stung. His game was over the moment he began to “justify” the “expose.” The Gujarat “expose” is the filthiest evidence of what he really is: a political parasite. That in itself wouldn’t qualify him for our loathing. He is a dangerous political paraiste. Even there, that’s not because of his sleazy links with the ISI and similar outfits but more because he is a conscientious liar. He deserves more than mere loathing.
3. The Indian Media
A million faceless Tarun Tejpals. The English language media in India commonly does disservice to democracy and is bereft of principles–there is no other way to say this. Ever since the crawling experience during the Emergency, the media has realized that it is both safe and rewarding to open its legs.
2. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
I’m almost tempted to call him the Nero of Nandigram. He nullified all valiant attempts of his talented spin doctors to project him as an industry-friendly visionary, etc. In Nandigram, this Buddha showed exactly what he understood by (Marxist) Enlightenment.
1. Deve Gowda
I’m a little passionate about my state so Deve Gowda is my obvious choice to fill the top slot. Gowda’s self-righteous conviction of his own invincibility has cost him excessively. He holds a nearly-unbeatable record of a hugely successful career in treachery. In three years, he has destroyed Bangalore by doing nothing. He has pushed the state back by more than a decade by mortgaging it to the welfare of his family. His unique knack for stifling any good has given Karnataka 3 chief ministers in 3 years. His place at #1 will be pretty firm the next time I make this list.
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Sandeep - good one, you missed gutless wonder Shivraj Patil and the Presidential sized embarassment on Raisina Hill
My list:
1.John Dayal
2.Cedric Prakash
3.Teesta Setalvad
4.Sonia Gandhi
5.Rahul Gandhi
6.Karunanidhi
7.Sitaram Yechuri
8.Prakash and Brinda Karat
9.Barkha Roy
10.Karan Thapar
Did you actually watch CBB? I know who’s got my “unmitigated contempt” and it’s not Shilpa.
Musharraf should not be on the list. Yes, he is against India but not in the same sense as Manmohan Singh. Musharraf clearly and openly would like to destroy India but cannot. Manmohan is destroying India. Traitors are loathsome. Musharraf is not a traitor, he’s a patriot. Manmohan should be numero uno on the list of loathsome people.
Dear Sandeep,
How could you drop Prakash Karat? How could you?
Or has he transcended this?
But I agree with Deve Gowda’s position as #1. Karat should have been #2, at least.
I just saw Atanu’s comment: yes, Manmohan Singh should be #1.
Another honourable mentions: Jean Dreze, N Ram, P Sainath and Pankaj Mishra
yossarin, your candidates are not abonimable. Au contrair, they are pitiable. They rightly don’t make up the list. For me, Indian media deserves to be at top. It deserves mass revulsion — for its unprofessionalism, nepotism and unrelenting anti-India attitude. I agree with Atanu about Musharraf. Musharrafs of Pakistan will come and go, but at least people know how to tackle them. Btw, where’s Arundhati? How come she is not on the list?
Sandeep, India is a large country. List of 10 most loathsome people is too constricting. When it comes to loathsome people, India is truly a superpower — greater than the US. After all, even the most severe critic of the US will have to admit that the US is not a commie state; that while it is full of Christian fundies, it is not a pseudo-secular state; that its constitution does not promote one religion over another; that it does not discriminate against people based on their religion.
So the number of loathsome people have to be much greater in India than in the US — by the very fact that India is nearly four times larger in population. I suggest the list be expanded to 100. That way we can accommodate the Drezes, the Pankaj Mishras and many many very deserving others.
As it is, some nominations have already come in. Just keep updating your list.
10.Sonia Gandhi
9.Manmohan Singh
8.Lalu Prasad Yadav
7.Yogendra Yadav
6.Prakash Karat
5.Shabana Azmi
4.Mahesh Bhatt
3.Vinod Mehta
2.N.Ram
1.Barkha Dutt/Rajdeep Sardesai
20.Amir Khan
19.Sitaram Yechury
18.Buddadeb
17.Prannoy Roy
16.Teesta
15.Arundati Roy
14.Pankaj Mishra
13.Somini Sengupta
12.Malini Chatterjee
11.Pamela Philipouse
OK, this is my last comment.
I think that we have to have a regular prize, not unlike the Nobel Prize. The Ignobel is already taken. The most Loathsome — The MoLos. Like the Oscars. The Annual MoLo Award. Given in a number of categories, such as “Press”, “Politics”, “Entertainment”, “General Hypocrisy”, “Pseudo-secularism”, “Brown nosing.”
One can win in more than one category. Dr Singh, for instance,can win in Politics, General Hypocrisy, Pseudo secularism, and Brown Nosing.
So you have different categories. Then nominations can be made. Then the winners are voted on. This is a democracy, remember? So it should be democratically run.
I now declare the “The MoLos” open.
OK, I lied. That was not my last comment.
I think something like the MoLos can be a very effective way for the blogs to highlight what the main stream media is unable to do — because the MSM cannot speak truth to power.
If suppose Dr MM Singh were to win the Grand MoLo award for 2007, even the main stream media may have to pay attention. So they may be unable to speak the truth, they may indirectly speak the truth by reporting the MoLo awards. And even the good doctor may wake up to the fact that he isn’t fooling as many people as he believes and that his quackery is rather well recognized.
I am on a roll
So we need a site up and running where we do all the nominations and voting and so on transparently. How about http://www.MoLo.blogspot.com ?
Someone will have to design a logo for the MoLo. That could be an open contest. Design a logo and win an iPhone. So we need donations for various prizes and other expenses. Again, on the blog, put up a begging button for donations.
Then we go and add a page on wikipedia. The “Annual MoLo Award” of India page.
We are short of time this year. Next year, The 2008 MoLo can be more organized and set up around mid-October so that by December Solstice the awards can be announced. Perhaps the winners can be invited to accept their awards in a grand function somewhere.
The main thing is that these loathsome people should be exposed to as much ridicule as possible. Perhaps it may help them become less loathsome. The press should have been doing this job but since it is not, blogs have to step up to the plate.
The Annual India’s Most Loathsome Awards blog has been created.
Sandeep, you are in charge.
What about M. Karunanidhi, the phony “kalaignar”?
Modi winning comfortably. I am happy.
How about making a list of MostLovable. I will keep Modi from 1 to 10. (Sorry for going overboard. Spicy Rum speaking)
Haha…well done, Atanu! Yes, MMS is MoLo par excellence. BTW, Modi vijay mubarak to everyone on this site. I am waiting for a therapeutic rant from Barkha/Rajdeep/N Ram on this. In general, I agree that it’s the Indian ELM that is the most execrable of the lot. It’s their ass-licking of the p-sec leftards that has created the mess that we are in today.
Why don’t we make top 50 nominations for MoLo’s? I have a few more:
30.C N R Rao - that awful idiot.
29.Shekhar Gupta
28.C Raja Mohan
27.Bobby Jindal - I know he’s not Indian but he’s a personal MoLo favourite for me.
26.Y Samuel Reddy
25.Arjun Singh
24.Imam Bukhari
23.Asaduddin Owaisi - leader of the MIM barbarians in Hyderabad
22.”Sister” Nirmala - heir to the Kolkata ghoul
21.Ivan Dias - Nai pope’s Indian rep
I agree Indian English media should be #1. There are far more damaging people to the country than Shilpa and Shahrukh.
Another option would be to create a list of 50/100 people and everyone gets to vote and rank the people on the list. Tally the rankings and then award the Ignoble prize and the top 10 list….and restricting their activities to 2007 (I don’t think Girish Karnad qualify for 2007).
India beats Italy in Gujarat.
Gujjubhai:
Congratulations and celebrations on the upcoming defeat of the pathetic Congress!
Now on to the MoLo: a new category — “NRI MoLo” inspired by Bobby Jindal.
Chakravarty:
I think it should be “Gujarat Beats Italy”. We will have to wait for a bit longer for “India Beats Italy”. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
Thanks, Atanu - this is indeed a very happy day. Hopefully, Modi will lead the fight against the 3M axis of evil in the years to come.
On the MoLo list, I must say that I think Shah Rukh Khan and Amir Khan don’t belong there. Both of them have done a great job with their nationalist movies like Rang De Basanti, Swades and Chak De India. Knowing how slavishly Bollywood apes Hollywood, I think that the default tendency for most of the Bollywood stars would be to become Hollywood style limo liberals, so I am quite happy to see both SRK and AK break that mold somewhat and create a nationalist narrative.
Gujjubhai:
I hope that Narendrabhai goes to New Delhi eventually and beats the crap out of the foxtrotting pseudo-seculars.
We will have to wait for a bit longer for “India Beats Italy”.
What Gujarat does today, India will do tommorow
Results right now: BJP — 117 (win plus lead)
Congress — 58 (win plus lead)
Others — 7
Chakravarty said, “What Gujarat does today, India will do tommorow.”
Aap kay mooh mein ghee shakkar.
Oh, absolutely, man!! I live to see the day when NaMo (as us Gujjus are fond of calling him) will unfurl the Tiranga on the Red Fort. Even now that dream brings tears to my eyes. Just imagine - if he ever manages to do that, he would become the first true son of soild Bharatiya nationalist leader to lead Bharat in over a thousand years. I’ve just about had it with the millenium long rape and plunder of our motherland by successive hordes of barbarians starting from Arabs and continuing on to Mughals, British and the sorry post-1947 bunch of Bharat-hating, mentally colonized, communist, brown outside and white inside coconut, slave dhimmi Macaulayites who have ruined our civilization. Could our generation be the first in over a thousand years to be truly free and led by someone who is truly one of our own? I am getting goosebumps just thinking about it.
OK, enough dreaming - gotta celebrate today. Wish I could join you all fine folks in sipping some great scotch, lighting up a fat cuban and reading our favourite prose from VS Naipaul :). Rejoice, my brothers and sisters - this is indeed a great, great day.
Current count (lead + win)
BJP — 122
Congree — 55
Rest — 5
Wow…this is a freakin’ landslide!! This day only gets better and better :).
Just awesome. Modi is da man. Atanu, add that Yogendra “Yucky” Yadav to MoLo list. That freakologist had been spinning his way since Mulayam’s defeat. Bloggers got to hold the secularists’ asswipe analysis in their sorry faces. I say rub it guys, these quislings deserve no better. I mean just look up the bile served by Vidya Subrahmanyam, Manini Chatterjee, Radhika Ramaseshan, Barkha Dutt, Sagarika, Smita Gupta et al. Not to forget that jihadi cipher Saba Naqvi Bhaumik. These morons have been spewing venom against Modi and Gujarat for what, 5 yrs. now, and yet no shame. Sickens me.
Anyway, Gujjus have delivered once again. Here’s to the laudable forbearance of Gujaratis. The silent majority cannot thank you enough.
This woman Teesta Setalvad should be arrested on charges of sedition, inciting religious hatred and trying to incite another clash between Hindus and Muslims.
I find her crap impossible to tolerate. Even Kapil Sibal seems better than bloody activists like her.
Why are Indian journalists so loathsome? Here’s why.
Excellent analysis, Atanu Dey. If there is one breed who are worse than journalists, it is activists. Especially Human Rights activists. They are all motivated only by their own egos and give a damn about human beings.
This note is meant only for Shekhar Gupta, Vir Sanghvi, Rajdeep Sardesai, Yogendra Yadav, Naxal R, Harish Khare and the niggardly editor of Toutlook.
Though I strictly abjure expletives, this is one occassion which warrants invoking one such with gusto.
Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers
Guys,
This might be unrelated to the topic but I have to bring this out in open. Yesterday while watching the phoney Vikram Chandra of NDTV moderate “The Big Figth” Swapan Dasgupta made a point. He said Modiji veoted a proposal, while framing pre-election BJP manifesto, to give amnesty to 200,000 farmers for power theft charges. Now that speaks volumes of his character. Can anyone think of a modern day politician like him. This man should become our Prime Minister. We Indians need a man like him.
Obiviously I delighted at his victory. I thank all well-meaning Gujaratis for electing him again. I wish even Tamil Nadu has one like him.
Jai Hind
GUJJUBHAI,
I really wish and pray(I was praying all the last 3 weeks for Modiji’s victory) that Modiji becomes our Prime Minister. I am from Tamil Nadu and I wish we have many nationalist like you. Tamil Na While reading your comment I too had goosebumps and tears.
India needs to speak and its voice should be heard. Enough of these so called intellectuals and phoney psycoanalysts.
how, just HOW did you leave out Karunanidhi?
and Pratibha Patil?
Guys,
Got this from the ofstumped blog-Pls spread the link around
youtube dot com/watch?v=GeIFDK9BQYo
Why leave out Indian business families
TATA, Ambani, Birla etc
They are the reason Indian employment laws
(particularly the one that leads to a forced marriage to a union once an employer “hits” a century)
Thanks to then neither the Vajpayee or gandhi-singh consortium has done didly regarding this issue.
Its they who dont want competition.
Ah…here comes the first rant from none other than Ms Somini Sengupta:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/world/asia/23cnd-india.html
Loved it, loved it, loved it!! Read it three times, laughed out loud even more.
Some gems:
“…. after a mysterious fire engulfed a train carrying members of a Hindu nationalist organization, killing 59 people on board.”
“Mr. Modi, for his part, has invoked issues that play to Gujarat’s religious divide, including a provocative speech that seemed to justify the high-profile police killing of a Muslim man named Sohrabuddin Sheikh.”
A mysterious fire? A Muslim man (not a terrorist caught with arms and ammunition)? Burn you f’in bitch, burn!!
The media is loathsome allright, but the Gujarat result shows that its ability to influence voters is very limited. In this election, the media virtually functioned as the Congress party’s official campaigner. The result can be interpreted in one of three ways:
1. The media has zilch influence on the voter. It did not add a single seat to either Congress or BJP.
2. It has very limited influence. But for its propaganda, the BJP would have won a few seats more: may be 5 or 10.
3. The media is loathed by voters. Because it campaigned for Congress, the BJP won a landslide; otherwise it would have won a marginal victory.
Whats your pick?
for guys who are happy about election victory, all the people on this page are full of a rather astonishing amount of bile.
says something, don’t it.
Guys,
That was an overwhelming response thank you.
All,
I admit I missed a lot of people in that list. I’ll add another list soon.
Atanu,
Thanks for setting up that blog. And I’d rather have that MoLo out here on blog simply because it makes for easier maintainability..it’ll all be in one place. So watch out for my announcement soon.
Gujjubhai:
Somini Sengupta wins the MoLo NRI, MoLo House Nigger, and MoLo Bitch awards hands down. Even Arundhati Roy must be turning green with envy on Sengupta’s achievements.
Talking of Sengupta, has anyone pondered why the Bongs are over-represented among journalists and “intellectuals” when it comes to MoLos? There’s something fishy there, if you pardon the expression.
Sandeep:
Of course it makes sense for the MoLos to be done on this blog instead of a separate site. I created that blog on a lark — took a couple of minutes and will delete it soon enough.
The main thing is that we have to have this award. It raises consciousness.
Atanu,
I don’t know, man…SS is just trying to get attention of her whitey bosses by jumping up and down and bashing all things Indian as a lowly India correspondent. She’s a perfect example of a self-flagellating brown sepoy - the kind you alluded to in your blog entry “On Indian Journalism”. Pankaj Mishra, on the other hand, gets to hold forth on editorial pages. And neither of them comes anywhere close to that toxic MoFo Vijay Prashad. He’s Uncle Tom par excellence.
I find that bongs - particularly those from Bongland - are just brainwashed by decades of commie rule and turn into self-hating lefty retards. That is a pity because historically Bengal has produced an amazing number of intellectual giants. I feel terribly sad to what has become of a land that once produced the likes of Ramakrishna Paramhans, Swami Vivekanand and Satyendra Nath Bose. A Bharatiya renaissance must free Bengal and Kerala from the death cult of communism and unleash their intellectual firepower once again.
BTW, did I mention that I am a huge fan of your blog Deeshaa? Please keep up the great work you are doing.
Here comes another rant from Yogendra Yadav:
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/anatomy-of-modi-wave-why-is-he-invincible/54867-3.html
Waah, padh kar mere kaleje ko kya thandak hui hei!! Heaven is watching frothing p-secs writhe in impotent rage as Bharat continues to forge ahead ins spite of them.
Sandeep, a request : could we please have a set of the MoLo’s “finest” works such as articles etc right next to their nominations? Personally, it’s a great source of inspiration (and entertainment) to me to read their rants. Reading the likes of Somini Sengupta and listening to Barkha Dutt is a daily reminder of why I must do my duty for Bharat and vote for Modi and BJP in every election forever. We must know these traitors’ works very well so that we can give them a muh-tod jawaab in every goddamn’ election.
Why not Teesta and UR Ananthamurthy alias Ajnanapeethi in the list? First creature has a big mouth and an empty head, so lot of noise. The second specimen has a big mouth and an empty stomach, so lot of noise. These make louder noise than that mullah on a bakrid morning.
Sandeepji,
according to me, Manmohan Singh should fill the top slot. This spineless creature has undone all the good work done by the NDA Government. He is a liar and a cheap-character. I - as an Indian and a Sikh - am disgusted with his actions. He is a disgrace.
wow, what exultant victors! In victory, they use “liar” “cheap character”, “disgrace”, “big mouth” “empty stomach” “mullkah on a bakrid morning”, “traitors”, “muh-tod”, “self-flagellating brown sepoy”, “House Nigger”, “Bitch”, “Burn you f’in bitch, burn”, “phoney psycoanalysts”, “motherfuckers”, “bloody activists”, “freakologist”, “asswipe”, “quislings”, “Bharat-hating, mentally colonized, communist, brown outside and white inside coconut, slave dhimmi Macaulayites”, “beats the crap out of the foxtrotting pseudo-seculars”, “axis of evil”, “ass-licking of the p-sec leftards”. and plenty of “loathsome” “molo” and other.
and i thought your fave party just *won* elction in gujrat. reading you guys bitterness one wd think they lost!
Gujjubhai:
Thanks very much. I am very grateful that you like my modest blog. I hope to continue writing — can do little else but point out the flaws in the system.
Shuvro Aikath:
My sincere condolences to you — sorry you find reality hard to swallow. Happens to the best of the idiot pseudo-secularists. Just grin and bear it, would you, you sniveling moron.
Sardar Bains:
I am sorry that Manmohan Singh is a Sikh. The Gurus would have wept. Manmohan and Montek should be stripped of the “Singh” — they don’t measure up to it.
oooops i forgot “sniveling moron.”
why do i think this is language of losers, not winners? because these are losers here.
This list seems quite biased.
How can you miss
L K Adwani.
“Talking of Sengupta, has anyone pondered why the Bongs are over-represented among journalists and “intellectuals” when it comes to MoLos? ”
Many of these Bongs are intellectual mercenaries who would sell their mother down the river for a tenure or an invitation to a conference. Its just business, since left-libs control the academia they are left leaning.
Shuvro,
You may have problem with certain words from dictionary or word-constructions, but I don’t see its connection to “our party having won” or lost etc. If you’ve misgivings at their usage at certain places in the comments then just let each one know and I am sure most will be glad to explain the necessity.
The larger issue here is the systematic and sustained campaign of hate conducted by the stars of English media, and the appalling mendacity in their handling of basic truths that even a blind man can tell apart. Calling it unprofessional would be understatement of year. What most people witnessed was nothing short of lethal brew consisting of the worst of Goebbelsian techniques aimed at manufacturing dissent.
Now, post poll, one would think they would wise up but apparently the secular media has bid adieu to any semblance of propriety and continues with its venomous agenda. If you don’t see the danger of their folly to India’s discourse or still prefer to juxtapose it for sake of moral equivalency then that is your choice.
For myself, I believe that severe, no holds barred expose is not only warranted but justified. Muslims and Christians have the luxury of violence and outside money to buttress their side. I don’t want Hindus to be robbed of the simple convenience of vocabulary. Cheers!
I’m disappointed by Barbarindian’s( Shuvro Aikath) commments.
It’s not really him commmenting, or if it’s really him, I don’t understand the I-am-a-cool-dude tone of his comments.
I’ve never felt so much emotion for a political event before. NEVER. I’ve never felt so politically involved.
The emotion was not so much happiness for Modi’s victory, but satisfaction at the blackening of the faces of the pseudo-secular media and later, anger at their continued denying to him his rightful victory.
I was infuriated by the attitude of news anchors like Sagarika Ghose, Barkha Dutt and ArnOb Goswami. They were denying Modi his victory by looking for excuses to run him down.
“It’s a victory for Modi, not the BJP”
“BJP under threat”, “defeat for RSS”…..
So,Shuvro Aikath, please understand the context of the abusive words. I fully empathise with socal and Gujjubhai when they use expletives.
Best “throw in the towel” line came out of a poker faced Burka Dutt,
“Modi might win but he still won’t get the visa to the US.”
Booohoohoo, whatta bunch of over emoting losers.
My list :
10)SRK (shit actor)
9)Amitabh Bachchan (over commericalized bitch, Sholay remake is all I have to say)
8)Salman Khan (shit actor with a rap sheet)
7)Abhishek Bachchan (shittier acter)
6)Manmohan Singh
5)Manoj Kumar (I thought this fucker was dead)
4)Karan Johar
3)Narender Modi (mass murdering hindu terrorist and guju scum)
2)Bal Thackeray (a living breathing piece of shit who needs a bullet to the balls)
1)The bjp faggot who runs this site
1) to 10) Narendra Modi
[he deserves landslide victory in this one too. And, the persons from 2 to 9 are wearing the modi-mask]
and talking about mass murders by Narendra Modi, please dont forget that the 58 hindus who got killed in the sabarmati express died in his regime too. so much for safety of the hindus!
Do you guys want free modi-masks? Gujarat looks really different through them i promise.
My list on my blog page.. awesome idea Sandeep, my list very similar to yours. You are welcome to comment.
^^^^^
TROLL ALERT!!
The extent to which these secular jihadis have stoked the fire hatred for Modi among real jihadis, concerns me deeply. Heaven forbid if a jihadi so much as even touches Modi, the Hindu wrath will befall the secularists first and foremost.
Hindu Wrath, Socal? Like killing an Australian missionary and his two children in broad daylight? BJP monkeys ought to locked up in electrified cage.
Chimp, Staines wasn’t killed in broad daylight. He was killed in the night. Poor dude departed for greener pastures while asleep.
1 to 10 should all be hindu gujjus. No community as loathsome was ever seen. Their hatred for Muslims is due to their vegitarianism, which causes their boys to be bashed up by muslim ones in school, and leaves their girls noticeably uglier than their muslim counterparts. These experiences leave permanent scars that they carry into adulthood.
Wrong O Shit Sainik. He was murdered along with his 2 children in the early afternoon as his car was set ablaze.
Sandeep,
You need to do some cleaning.
My top 10 would be something like Gujjubhai’s (above). People who are doing real damage to India, like Teesta, A Roy, John Dayal, Cedric Prakash etc should be included, SRK, Shetty etc may be a$$holes in their own right, but do not really damage India.
Your blog subtitle says “rescuing public discourse”. And you have three actor/directors and a non-entry in Musharraf. Gives us some idea about what you mean by public discourse. As for the actors, what they are doing is purely out of selfish interests and not indulging in any moral posturing. These guys are entertainers - good or bad. Nothing more. Including them in a most loathsome list is paying them more attention than they ever need to AND patently wrong.
Not including anyone from either side of the fundamentalist faction is something you might have done intentionally to make the list more plausible and palatable to yourself.
P.S.: A lyrics writer is not the same person as the actor on whom the song is being filmed and both of these persons are different (usually) from the playback singer who sings it.
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