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[HUGH]

My memories of India are well out of date, but I saw the things criticised 
by some commentators on the success of Slumdog Millionaire.  Riches and 
poverty side by side, deliberately blinded children begging, children 
selling their sisters, men flogging their daughters, a blind armless legless 
man begging with a bucket clamped between his leg stumps, wriggling along on 
pads attached to his shoulder blades,  a taxi in which I sat being rocked 
from side to side on Grant Road (I was not participating, just waiting for 
the idiot who was) by the press of beggars expecting me to open a window and 
throw money out.  It's always the same when a film is made about a 
recognisable location and society.  When one of Peter McDougall's TV films 
set in Greenock was shown, all hell was let loose in the local press - how 
dare he show this and that, traducing the good name, etc, etc. I was a lone 
voice pointing out that they were talking a load of ordure - take a look 
around you I told them, or look in a mirror.

Hugh.