When did other Indians call Assamese "Slit Eyed Gooks"? This term is used by
your own friends here!
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From: Bartta Bistar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: AssamNet <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2007 5:59:09 PM
Subject: [Assam] Now it is time for Indian Prime Minister and others to
publicly apologise for Indians calling Assamese Mongolians Slit-Eyed gooks
and Manipuris Chinkys to start with and prosecute the offenders.
Blair says sorry to harassed Shilpa
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London, Feb. 7: Shilpa Shetty had a private 10-minute meeting today with Tony
Blair who apologised to the Bollywood star for the abuse she had suffered on
Celebrity Big Brother.
After the meeting, which took place at the House of Commons, Shilpa interacted
with a 100-strong medium scrum, consisting of journalists, photographers and TV
cameramen from Britain, the US and a contingent which had flown in from India.
The location was unusual on the banks of the Thames river. Wearing a white
Nita Lulla jacket with a sari and with her ubiquitous mother, Sunanda, by her
side, Shilpa recounted: "The Prime Minister was really, really kind. He said
that I carried myself with the utmost dignity."
She added: "He said he was very sad to see what I had to go through in the (Big
Brother) House. In turn, I said I really needed to thank him personally for all
the support he showed me and my country. I took the opportunity and I thanked
him. He was very, very sweet."
Earlier, the winner of Celebrity Big Brother sat in on "Prime Minister's
Question Time" (when David Cameron, the Tory leader, said Blair should be
evicted from the House). She said she was intrigued by the occasion and said
Blair had shown a "sense of humour" with his answers. "I have never been to the
Lok Sabha and I have come to the House of Commons."
Shilpa was invited to the Commons by Keith Vaz, Labour MP for Leicester East,
who said: "She went to the members' dining room. She met Tessa Jowell (culture
secretary), who has given her a gift. The Prime Minister has given her a gift,
signed by himself and Mrs (Cherie) Blair, a portrait of the House of Commons;
she has had lunch she had smoked salmon (good humoured shouts of 'oh, stop
it', from Shilpa) followed by dessert, Shilpa's Delight, which was a selection
of English desserts."
One suggestion she knocked down firmly was the idea, mooted by Vinod Khanna,
that she would join the BJP.
She told The Telegraph: "Oh, not at all. I have never really been
politically-inclined. I don't know where this comes from (Vinod Khanna, she was
told). No, it's very kind of him. I know him personally but nobody has spoken
to me about joining any party and I don't intend to do so, not in the near
future."
Summing up her day at Westminster, she said: "I thought it would be really
boring actually but I really enjoyed it. I was pleasantly surprised."
Vaz's nine-year-old daughter, Anjali, placed a traditional garland around the
two guests before Shilpa posed for pictures.
Asked what she thought was the main difference between the House of Commons and
Big Brother House, she replied: "I think the main difference is that they were
more polite in there (the Commons) and I don't get a chance to stay." She would
be returning to India shortly as she "really missed" members of her family but
would be returning to the UK to continue her AIDs charity work.
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