New Delhi: An enraged TV reporter’s tirade against a store manager over “Urdu” writing on a Haldiram’s snack box has sparked a social media firestorm, adding to the siege of the national conversation seized by opposition to halal meat, the hijab, and the Azaan.
A twitter user Akhil Khan shared the video of the disruption between the reporter and the store manager of the Halidram’s
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“You can do whatever ma’am, Haldiram’s will not entertain such tantrums,” the store manager tells the reporter thrusting a mic and ranting about “Urdu writing” and “betraying Hindus who fast during Navratri”.
On social media, the incident garnered significant attention, with some claiming that the writing on the packet is Arabic and that it is there because it is shipped to the Middle East, while others provided examples of everything from Indian Railways signs to currency notes that employ Urdu text.
The government has allowed the far-right TV channel Sudarshan TV to carry programmes on issues like a “plot to infiltrate Muslims in government service,” despite the fact that the Supreme Court has already condemned it for its Islamophobic content.
The show was eventually stopped by the court which ruled, “An insidious attempt has been made to insinuate that the community is involved in a conspiracy to infiltrate the civil services. Several statements in the episodes, which have been drawn to the attention of the Court, are not just palpably erroneous but have been made in wanton disregard of the truth.”
“I saw one of the episodes and it was hurtful to watch. Many pictorials are offensive and need to be taken off,” Justice Indu Malhotra had said.
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