Monday, February 13, 2006

Animal rights...

After the no-holds barred cat-fight between Maneka Gandhi and Sharmila Tagore ( http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/19721.html ) about the use of horses in "Rang De Basanti", what I would like to know is ... Did Maruti get a clearance from the concerned department for the Maruti Swift ad to use a fish (ichthyoid in calvin speak) ?

If not, considering that nobody's raised a noise yet; are we to assume that somehow fishes have lesser rights than larger animals ? Why this should be, is beyond me, so I'm starting a "Save- the-fishes" campaign right here. All the money for this noble cause can be diverted to my bank account. (Why the raised eyebrows, its a more reliable enterprise than the Nigerian "please-send-details-to-claim-millions" mails which are sent to my mailbox by the dozens)

1 comment:

Zubin said...

Neeta has a post on her blog on the movie as well: http://neatwit.blogspot.com/2006/02/colour-it-yellow.html

Slighly different perspective, but it was connected to the topic :)