[Reader-list] for admirers of Javed Akhtar

[Sanjay Kak]

A comment on Shabana Azmi's 60th birthday party, and the cake served
up by her partner Javed Akhtar:
By Parvez Sharma in the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/22/slumdog-birthday-cake-shabana-azmi

"The half-eaten cake is a baked replica of what a slum looks like to
India's large middle class and its rather small elite. A river seems
to run through it in blue icing but a careful look reveals it is a
nallah  or a sewage-filled open drain – the trademark of
neighbourhoods where India's urban poor build their makeshift homes. A
clothes line full of washing can also be seen among the remains of the
cake. Apparently, this was the idea of Shabana's husband, who thought
it would be amusing."