DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
1. Following the shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, a Fox News anchor asked a nephew of one of the victims if there had been any previous “anti-Semitic acts” against members of the temple.
2. Televangelist Pat Robertson blamed atheists for the shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
3. Hindu nationalists blamed the power blackouts
in India on high electricity use by people watching Aamir
Khan’s TV show Satyamev Jayate.
4. Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, visiting
the International Space Station for the second time, said she
would vote in the presidential election through a program
called Voting from Space.
5. During a TV special about India, Oprah Winfrey said
to her hosts at a Mumbai party, “I heard some Indian people
eat with their hands still?”
Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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