In the Hindu religion

With Paresh Rawal and Akshay Kumar playing lead roles, the

film has been so Indianised that it does not look like a copy

of the English one. Before 1960, god-themed films based on

our puranas, epics and myths were popular, but this genre

later shifted to television as serials.

However, this is not important. In the Hindu religion, there

is this practice of pulling out god characters from their

original puranic, mythological context and form and putting

them into new, imaginary, creative incarnations. You can then

laugh at them, even make fun of them. Indic folk tradition is

replete with such stories.

Buddhist and Jain faiths are basically atheist. Jews and

Christians are strongly monotheistic. The Jews do not believe

in the concept of incarnation. In Christianity, Christ is God

’s son, but he is not an avatar or incarnation. Creative art

has now become so secular that the artist can portray or

colour the god according to his imagination and this poetic

license provokes no offence among people.

In Islam, God is formless, but his attributes are known --

that he is compassionate and merciful, for instance. So you

could say God sagun hain, magar nirakar hain. That is, God is

with attributes but he is without form. Allah is discipline-

loving, so there is no depiction of God anywhere in Islam.

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Allah has no son and so there is no nabhi or Islamic symbol

that can take the liberty of portraying Allah in a creative

form. The issues raised in OMG are debates that have been

often raised about God and religion, but these are finally

buried in double-faced theism but in Islam, even this would

be surely unacceptable.

Companies like Nestle and Nissin Foods

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The Chinese government has welcomed the move to include
chowmein as a prescription drug and to subsequently shift it
from the food and beverages industry to the pharmaceuticals
industry. A spokesperson of Chinese export promotion council
said Chinese firms will now export ready-to-eat authentic
packaged chowmein to pharmaceutical importers in India after
procuring the necessary licences for medical exports.
Authentic Chinese chowmein will come with a list of
ingredients and cautionary warnings, and would be sold only
against prescription from a medical practitioner since the
authentic drug will be more potent, the trade body
representative added.
Companies like Nestle and Nissin Foods, manufacturers of the
popular instant noodles brands like Maggi and Top Ramen,
however, are worried about the developments since this would
now shrink their target market encompassing children and
young adults and would now need to be retailed only at
pharmaceutical outlets for adults who have a medical
prescription for the same. They were also concerned that
advertisements for their products would also be restricted
like those for alcohol and tobacco products.
While the repercussions on the food and beverage industry are
obvious, pharmaceutical companies Ranbaxy, Cipla, Sun
Pharmaceutical Industries and Cadila Healthcare, which have
been manufacturing Indian brands of Viagra, have now stopped
production and have shifted focus to manufacturing packaged
chowmein and are setting up factories for the same. Chefs
from five star hotels specializing in Oriental cuisine are
being hired to prepare excellent and authentic chowmein to
replace Viagra. Fresh investments are being made to set up
state-of-the-art modular kitchens that would replace
laboratories and churn out packed and frozen chowmein that
one could heat and eat.

The liberal international order

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What we do know is that the global shift toward liberal democracy coincided with the historical shift in the balance of power toward those nations and peoples who favored the liberal democratic idea, a shift that began with the triumph of the democratic powers over fascism in World War II and that was followed by a second triumph of the democracies over communism in the Cold War. The liberal international order that emerged after these two victories reflected the new overwhelming global balance in favor of liberal forces. But those victories were not inevitable, and they need not be lasting. Now the re-emergence of the great autocratic powers, along with the reactionary forces of Islamic radicalism, has weakened that order, and threatens to weaken it further in the years and decades to come. The world's democracies need to begin thinking about how they can protect their interests and advance their principles in a world in which these are, once again, powerfully contested.
Last month, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unceremoniously fired a former mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from the State Park and Recreation Commission. Ordinarily, the sacking of a minor official from a state board most Californians have never heard of would not have set off a media frenzy, even in the gossip-crazed Golden State. But, in this case, the ex-mayor just so happened to be Clint Eastwood, a longtime parks advocate who had served on the panel since 2001. Adding fuel to the fire, Schwarzenegger also axed his own brother-in-law Bobby Shriver from the same commission. The governor claims he wanted to give others a chance to serve, but Eastwood, Shriver, and environmentalists see an ulterior motive: The two men opposed a planned 16-mile extension of a toll road that Schwarzenegger had championed, which would cut through the picturesque San Onofre State Beach north of San Diego.
The celebrity angle to the story tended to obscure its larger significance. Schwarzenegger is often cited as a model for Republicans--John McCain in particular--who want to build a greener public image. But his firing of Eastwood is yet another episode in a relationship with environmentalists that's been, at times, far rockier and more complicated than his reputation might suggest. As McCain looks westward for an environmental mentor, it's worth asking: Is Schwarzenegger's unique brand of environmentalism a promising national model, or a futile effort to have it both ways?