Haldiram's Trends After TV Reporter Heckles Staff Over "Urdu" Text
NDTV
The TV channel had been censured by the Supreme Court two years ago for its Islamophobic content.
An incensed TV reporter's invective over "Urdu" writing on a Haldiram's snack packet directed at a store manager has set off a fierce debate on social media, adding to the siege of the national discourse hijacked by objections to halal meat, the hijab and the Azaan. Ab HaldiRAM bhi anti-national ho gaya. pic.twitter.com/OM7FuWegoy Here is some Urdu text. Will this reporter go to the Railways and ask what it is about? #Haldiramspic.twitter.com/DGZ8KDUoXv Boycott Gang lets start boycott indian currency... #Urdu#haldiram#Haldiramspic.twitter.com/cW6pDgmiTp
"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 attempting to "betray Hindus who fast during Navratri".
The episode drew widespread condemnation on social media with some suggesting the writing on the packet is Arabic and is there because it is exported to the Middle East while others supplied examples of everything from Indian Railways signages to currency notes using Urdu text.
