Suhel Seth NDTV Anchor – You may find him on a news channel that’s about fuss talk and no action. A freebie actor, panellist, columnist, anchor and what not; Suhel Seth is just good at everything but wait not all.
You may find him on a news channel that’s about fuss talk and no action.
A freebie actor, panellist, columnist, anchor and what not; Suhel Seth is just good at everything but wait not all.
The veteran man attracted controversy recently when he put his foot in the mouth at the Times Literature Festival in Mumbai on Sunday after failing to recognise Indian Olympian and former men’s hockey team captain Viren Rasquinha on the dais.
Seth asked asked why Rasquinha was included in the panel for sports and that’s where the former has courted controversy.
Any sports lover or outside it would know who Viren Rasquinha.
The Mumbai-born is an Arjuna Award winner and has also won the gold medal at the 2001 Junior World Cup, the 2003 Asia Cup and the 2003 Afro-Asia Games. The 34-year old is also the COO of the Olympic Gold Quest which handles famous players like Saina Nehwal amongst many.
And that’s that. Viren got pissed and then this followed –
Had an excellent session @TimesLitFest on the next big thing in sports. And an unfortunate encounter with an obnoxious Suhel Seth 1/5
— Viren Rasquinha (@virenrasquinha) December 7, 2014
As my session ended, Suhel Seth comes on stage and says “don’t know what that bald guy was doing on a panel on sport, whats he done” 2/5
— Viren Rasquinha (@virenrasquinha) December 7, 2014
It’s so disappointing when I am invited by the Times Lit fest to speak and get dissed on stage by a guy who doesn’t even know who I am. 3/5
— Viren Rasquinha (@virenrasquinha) December 7, 2014
Even more disappointing to have the times lit fest director Bachchi Karkaria behave condescendingly. What’s with these cosy clubs 4/5
— Viren Rasquinha (@virenrasquinha) December 7, 2014
I really do wonder though how Suhel Seth holds forth on everything under the sun and what exactly is his domain expertise 5/5
— Viren Rasquinha (@virenrasquinha) December 7, 2014
The above outrage of from Rasquinha is evident. How could one attack verbally on stage to a sports persona who has represented this country onto the world stage and made every citizen proud. But here is one man that is just a blabber on news channels especially one where the lady anchor is ‘just a name’ in the news business. Suhel Seth might by extricating himself from controversies on news channels and newspaper columns but the former’s language at the Times Literature Festival against Viren Rasquinha is shameful not the least.
Even as Twitter outpoured with outrage and discontent over Seth’s dialogue; the latter later tweeted stating his apology to Viren. But the fire had already caught and there was no letting off Suhel even if there was an offer of apology or social displeasure. When Maria Sharapova said she didn’t knew who Sachin Tendulkar was, not only India but the whole world cracked down on the Russian tennis siren on Twitter and Facebook. Even as Sachin played down the statement, it left a sour taste on the Indian fans especially the Sachin Tendulkar devotees.
But Suhel’s was worse than that of Maria! He did the worst impersonation of the former world number 1. in tennis and perhaps that’s why the downpour. Perhaps it’s time for this news channel loyalist to pick up the papers or perhaps GOOGLE in prior to dictating terms!
