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Glamour Bazaar: New face of changing India
Published on Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:50, Updated on Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:18 in 
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New Delhi: Young India is far more different from what is was even ten years ago. There has been a change in mindsets, in thought process and beliefs. CNN-IBN’s Amrita Tripathi discusses this new face of changing India on the show Glamour Bazaar.
To discuss the issue on the panel were, Shobhaa De, eminent writer, ad guru, chairman of the London school of corporate training, Alyque Padamsee, film critic Bhawana Somaaya and writer and journalist Sonia Faleiro. Features editor at ibnlive.com Jhoomur Bose also participated in the discussion along with the students who raised their doubts and expressed their opinions.
Amrita asks Shobhaa about her recent book. Why are you talking about India at 60?
Shobhaa says, “I sometimes feel that I started writing the book in my mothers womb which was just before we got our independence. So it seems, I have been writing the book for 60 years”.
She adds that the change that she has seen has been so radical, so dramatic, and compacted into 10 short years. “Till then we were a fairly sleepy nation. But, then the fact that we have gone to be seen from a pauper nation to a superpower is the biggest change for me. The fact that democracy has survived is another huge achievement. More than 50 per cent of India is under 30 and I have enormous faith in the people of India,” adds Shobhaa.
We see a change in values and priorities. We look at the media. In entertainment and news, page three has become mainstream. The cheerleaders debate for example.
Discussing the fact Alyque Padamsee said that young India is a young country and that is the good news, but the bad news is that we are ruled over by people who are 60. “Take for example, cheerleaders, what is wrong with them? It is ridiculous how politicians say that young boys shouldn’t see girls in mini skirts. It is about time that the government of India takes a look at the population statistics and began to examine what young India is all about,” he says.
Who is driving page 3 and page 6 abroad? Do you think there is space for everything?
Sonia says that the most distinct thing is that the people who enjoy reading page 3 the most are the people who are on it and the one's who pay to be on it. “As a journalist, I feel that the writings on page 3 are mostly reflective of people who are on it. Sometimes you look at page 3 and say you can’t believe that it is in a national newspaper,” says Sonia.
“Have your page 3 but apply your introspection and judgment as you would have it in page 1,” adds Sonia.
However, Shobhaa says that page 3 has been institutionalized and the very people who condemn it are the ones who are not on it. Even the newspapers that condemn it have fallen for the page 3 bait because it comes with a sort of value add. “Everyone wants to read page 3, chases it, wants to be on it, no matter how poorly it is written because it gives you a certain social status and especially among the youngsters,” adds Shobhaa.
Things have changed in the last few years.
Bhawna says that in late 70's when she became a journalist, they were looked down upon and the mainstream wanted to have nothing to do page 3 journalists. “In the 80's all the newspapers had a very frivolous column on cinema because it was a break from the regular serious stories. Once in a while when the hard stories were getting on too much, they had a film star on the cover. Today in 2000, the celebrities and movie stars have bombarded and invaded the page 1, 2 9 and 10 that I don’t think we need the film glossies anymore,” adds Bhavna.
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