SecondSlip Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Indian society needs to understand that people like Kohli, Modi and Salman Khan are regular humans like the rest of us. They are not gods and never will be. India is probably the only country in the world that follows this hilarious tradition of hero worshipping! sorak, Singh bling, Norman and 3 others 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Every country has hero worshiping , don’t short sell only India Edited December 19, 2020 by coffee_rules maniac, beetle, Gollum and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranvir Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 When education levels improve and major poverty is eradicated. Under_Score 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R!TTER Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 I don't do worships, not to God & certainly not any mortal but this is definitely not something unique to us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomGuy Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Hero worshipping has done down DRASTICALLY in India coinciding with sachin and Dhoni retirement... people are a lot more individualism driven and mature these days.. kohli fans are chill.. Modi 'bhakts' are quite mature and salman who? The host of big boss? Lol. Is the Op from Pakistan btw? mishra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BacktoCricaddict Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 1 hour ago, coffee_rules said: Every country has hero worshiping , don’t short sell only India Yep. Just ask the Trumpsters. It's just less so in sports because franchises are cut-throat and don't mess around with players who are past their prime or are being distractions. Gollum and coffee_rules 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosingh Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Virat is one level above these other celebrities. Just seems like winning has become less important to the masses now. Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Kapil were also given hero status. But they were also sacked when they didn't deliver. Virat is given a different level of privilege. He is even given the power to grant a certain coach full immunity against failure. Edited December 19, 2020 by kosingh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tibarn Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 I disagree. India just has a huge population so it makes it look like it. If 1% of India's population is a superfan of someone, that is 10 million people: more than the population of some countries. The whole celebrity obsession culture is far stronger in the West. Look at Trump, Obama, the Clintons family, Bush family. That's just politicians. Athletes like Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady. Even losers are literally celebrities without even doing anything, like the Kardashians. Many(most?) people in India still look down on actors/actresses in my experience. The phrase nachaniyo/nachaniya doesn't exactly has a positive connotation. mishra, Gollum, someone and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jf1gp_1 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 (edited) US has the likes of Kim kardashian and Paris hilton before her. Still remember a new anchor threw a fit on live tv when some international news was cut to show Paris walked out of prison Edited December 20, 2020 by jf1gp_1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 At least India hero worship doesn't lead to deaths. Unlike the two heroes from the Arab desert leading to mass killings for centuries, one of them still causing deaths over some cartoons. Now that's what is sad and hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Couple of dozen seasons of this crap, a crazy cult worshipping these nobodies.....will put Salman/Rajinikanth fans to shame. And for FFS those stupid royal weddings garner 100s of millions of views even in North America, so many Western countries with loser royalists whose entire lives revolve around that freeloading royal family. Once read that thousands in Canada had camped for 2 days to catch a glimpse of some princess of theirs. India doesn't need lessons from the West or even Pakeeees who have elevated Imran Khan to level of holy prophet. Days of cinema stars and celeb sportsmen winning elections are over in India. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGG Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 On 12/20/2020 at 2:02 AM, SecondSlip said: Indian society needs to understand that people like Kohli, Modi and Salman Khan are regular humans like the rest of us. They are not gods and never will be. India is probably the only country in the world that follows this hilarious tradition of hero worshipping! Very good post. Only the biggest idiots worship cricketers. They are sportsmen. Worship Gandhi and true heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan AF Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 7 hours ago, WGG said: Worship Gandhi and true heroes. Oh you came to the wrong place bro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khota Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 On 12/19/2020 at 10:09 AM, coffee_rules said: Every country has hero worshiping , don’t short sell only India Not to the extent it is in India. Kohli after multiple failures is still the leader. Modi after per capita income has dropped below BD is still the leader. India is pretty bad in that. 15 hours ago, WGG said: Very good post. Only the biggest idiots worship cricketers. They are sportsmen. Worship Gandhi and true heroes. Gandhi is my true hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Khota said: Not to the extent it is in India. Please share that UNESCO website where they rank countries based on Hero-worshipping. 1 hour ago, Khota said: Kohli after multiple failures is still the leader. Blame BCCI/Ganguly. TINA factor as well. 1 hour ago, Khota said: Modi after per capita income has dropped below BD is still the leader. India is pretty bad in that. What? He was elected by people. WHo will fire him? People has to vote out BJP in 2024 for that to happen. It is per-capita GDP that is what you are referring to. It is becaise of huge population and plus BD is pushing illegal BDs to India. 1 hour ago, Khota said: Gandhi is my true hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilander Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 On 12/20/2020 at 8:58 AM, Gollum said: Couple of dozen seasons of this crap, a crazy cult worshipping these nobodies.....will put Salman/Rajinikanth fans to shame. And for FFS those stupid royal weddings garner 100s of millions of views even in North America, so many Western countries with loser royalists whose entire lives revolve around that freeloading royal family. Once read that thousands in Canada had camped for 2 days to catch a glimpse of some princess of theirs. India doesn't need lessons from the West or even Pakeeees who have elevated Imran Khan to level of holy prophet. Days of cinema stars and celeb sportsmen winning elections are over in India. atleast they have boobs. Gollum and velu 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilander Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 On 12/20/2020 at 8:58 AM, Gollum said: Days of cinema stars and celeb sportsmen winning elections are over in India. dont be so sure man, heard rajinikant floated a party in TN.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 4 hours ago, Vilander said: dont be so sure man, heard rajinikant floated a party in TN.. Doubt he will achieve much success, and never in the scale of MGR. Look at Vijaykanth/DMDK or that Sarathkumar party, hopefully people have seen through their nautanki by now;. Same with Chiranjeevi, Pawan Kalyan, no takers among Telugu people these days. Vilander 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepSpace Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 On 12/19/2020 at 9:09 AM, coffee_rules said: Every country has hero worshiping , don’t short sell only India Bingo! There is a major "hero" worshipping in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariyam Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 On 12/21/2020 at 8:19 PM, coffee_rules said: It is per-capita GDP that is what you are referring to. It is becaise of huge population and plus BD is pushing illegal BDs to India. This is laughable. That BD push illegals into India to raise their score on some IMF metric! The illegals that you speak about would not even be counted for the most part on any of census counts. They are people, who for all practical people, have a rootless existence. 15 years ago, India's per capita GDP was higher than that of BD. India had a substantially larger population than BD back then too. In those 15 years India's population has grown by about 21% as against 18% in BD. So BD has been better able to control its population growth. Also, Indian economy shrank by some 10% due to the impact Covid-19 ( official figures, mind you) and BD's economy actually grew marginally. Truth be told, they have performed better than us. To shrug it off as a scheme where they send illegals to lower our Indices is being disingenuous and not addressing the real problem on hand. That said, as India's recovers in the next 1-2 years one would expect India to surpass BD on this metric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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