Where is our society heading towards, where is social consciousness ????

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Dear friends,

When Mira Nair started calling up movie stars in Mumbai over a year ago,

everyone wanted to meet her. But when the actors heard she was looking for them

to appear in a segment of the 80-minute long omnibus called AIDS JaaGo, the

excuses started piling up very fast.

This is the prologue to the movie directed by Mira Nair.

Why is there a taboo still on people’s mind that AIDS is some sort of Horror?

These actors endorse on products that they don’t use, they talk of social

commitments, give big sermons at film festivities and then shrivel at the word

of being involved in a movie? Disgusting !

This is a country which thinks movie stars were often fêted like gods. And see

what the so called Gods have in their mind.

The Government of India, the National AIDS Control Organization, the State AIDS

Control Society and a hoard of other organizations work endlessly and

painstakingly trying to bring about a change. And still we have the big creamy

layer which keeps evading being a part of such issues. These creamy stars call

themselves as socially conscious people, where in reality they shy away.

Only very few stars have been humane in being a part of this social

consciousness movement. Hats off to them.

Let’s practice being a human first before we think we are a part of something

big.

Ms. Indhu S

Consultant, Chennai

Indhu Sudhakaran

e-mail: <indhu27770@...>