5 News Articles

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/feb/23/india-celebrates-slumdog-millionaire-oscars-victory

'A debate raged before the awards about whether the film could be described as authentically Indian'

The way that India is portrayed within the film, is it a true representation of it? I have chosen this new article as India celebrates the oscar winning film, but with the thought of how India was represented.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/28/india-bollywood-slumdog-millionaire

'I am not a fan of Slumdog Millionaire. Indeed, as I walked out of the cinema, I felt that I was back in India, having just seen another Bollywood film'

Balaji has a view upon the film of how the film portrays india as a slum. He also is affected by the common convention from an indian film brought a agin but by a non-indian director, who has sucessfully made an indian film. The common conventiosn are not anything speacial.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/04/india-women

'I debated with an Asian woman named Nirmala on the BBC Asian Network radio station, who emphatically believed Asian women should not drink or be seen in bars'

This news article is quite effective upon society, but not only upon other cultures, but the Indian culture itself. The article is about how indian women drink too much, but as Indian parents tend to be strict, they still believe that women should not be seen drinking as it gives a bad name upon the family and the asian society.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/feb/11/communities-birmingham-theatre

'black hairdresser had been gang raped by a group of Asian men'

This news article cross represents asian men in a positive sucessful way and a negative way. The psoitive way they are represented is that asian men tend to be good buisness men and own many buisnesses in areas such as Birmingham. This article also includes that Sonali Bhattacharyya a writer states that there is a growing number of mixed race people.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/19/prince-harry-racism-newspapers

Prince Harry, calling a fellow soldier "our little Paki friend"

This news article is about how racism is affecting our society. Even the royal family still have racist views upon asian people which can be follow by people to honour the royal family.