Re: Shilpa Shetty in Big Brother UK
Several Indian newspapers condemned the “racist jibes” thrown at the Bollywood star but said the country should examine its own prejudices before expressing national outrage.
“Discrimination on the basis of colour is ingrained in the psyche of most Indians,” The Hindustan Times said.
Many of India’s one billion people still live within a hierarchy imposed by the Hindu caste system and Muslims face widespread prejudice, being seen as the enemy within since Islamic Pakistan was carved out of British-ruled India.
Indian TV channels have shown continuous footage of the show, in which one housemate has said she was scared to eat food prepared by Shetty because, “you don’t know where those hands have been”, and another referred to her as ?The Indian".