COLOUR BLINDNESS IN MEDIA Reporter:- Sir, what do you eat during Navratri? Modi : I only eat one single fruit in this Navratri. Reporter :- Sir which fruit will you eat ? Modi- Papaya NDTV - Breaking news ... Modi does not like Mangoes; Banana; etc.He only eats Papaya. Surjewala :- Modi like Papaya means Saffron in color. This means Saffronisation of food choice Shekhar Gupta :- This means Modi is only promoting Hindutva. He does not like green fruits means he is against Muslims. This clearly shows Modi has no feelings for Muslims. Mamata - I will put a ban on papaya in Bengal. Rahul Gandhi:- My favorite Fruit is Banana ....I will never eat Papaya. Barkha Dutt : The nation wants to know why Modi likes Papaya more than other fruits . Mehbooba Mufti :- Modi doesn't like kashmiri Apple.This is Modi’s tactic to usurp Kashmir. We will not allow this to happen. Yechuri:- Selecting an expensive fruit like Papaya shows Modi is pro- capitalist. We would ask for a Judicial enquiry. Kejriwal:- Traditionally AAM (mango) is considered the King of Fruits. Modi is anti aam aadmi. Ravish Kumar : Modi has betrayed, revealing his communal façade by declaring that he likes Papaya. By deliberately avoiding green guavas from the list of fruits he likes, Modi has clearly demonstrated his anti-Muslim, communal mentality. He is Polarising the nation. A Tweet by Rajdeep Sardesai : "Modi likes Papaya an Indian fruit which mean he hates Olives, the Italian fruit. This shows a narrow nationalism. These RSS people have no international taste & class" Mani Shankar Aiyar : Modi is a rotten Papaya and must therefore be immediately removed from the basket. Otherwise all Papayas in the basket will rot. A rotten Papaya like modi has no place in the secular, all-inclusive basket of India. Alpesh Thakor - मोदीजी विश्व का सबसे महंगा पपीता खाते है Pawan khera - मोदीजी विश्व के सबसे उच्च किस्म के पपीते से facial करवाते है. kanhaiya kumar - मोदीजी केवल पपीते का केसरी भाग खाते है और हरे भाग को काट कर फैंक देतें है मोदी ने देश को तोड़ दिया. Sadanand Dhume quoting Rupa - "As per an eminent economist, eating only Papaya can reduce consumption of other food, thus lowering Indian GDP growth by 100 basis points." 600 Theatre Artists, 100 Filmmakers, 103 Economists, Civil society groups and Award Wapsi brigade has issued a Combine statement urging Indians to boycott Papaya , as this fruit is damaging the unity & integrity of India. DISCLAIMER: The above IS only to depict how one single seemingly insignificant event can be interpreted differently to suit one's dogmas. I do not belong to any party or sympathizer.
I have been watching Barkha Dutt and Shekhar Gupta in recent times. Dutt is travelling, and looking at corpses, whereas Shekhar is content to sit in the garden and do meta-analysis. In a recent "off the cuff" video with Fareed Zakaria from the USA, the latter went on praising NaMo for his political savvy, while Shekhar had to just listen and agree. If NaMo is eating papaya, and that is being reported as an affront to all other fruits, the clever ones in India would attempt to find a method to make mango and banana with a saffron skin. It is so easy to sell some yellow banana with some red banana and tell the customer that one each would mix and become a saffron banana inside the eater. We use such adaptations when feeding children.
