“God’s gift to the gastric juices” 31.3.2011
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Thursday, 31 March 2011
"God's gift to the gastric juices"
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
India shining or India sinking
India shining or India sinking?
Today’s newspaper, ( the TOI again!) carries an article by Pritish Nandy. “A ship about to sink” appears , not in the main section, but in the B T supplement under “Leisure”, (of all things). Serious readers may have missed this beautiful piece. In my opinion, the article should have found place on the front page, or at least the edit page. But that is TOI. Now about the article. The writer talks of the unbridled corruption in the nation’s polity. The Indian Political Philharmonic Orchestra must be the world’s most amazing cacophony of rouges, rascals and robbers. Couldn’t be truer. Ofcourse the choice epithets remind you what Winston Churchill in his hubris said before independence, power was being handed over to a set of rascals, thieves and men of straw. Nandy’s piece merits reading by all Indians. Reminds what Gandhi said about Katherine Mayo’s book. “A gutter inspector’s report” , but to be read only by Indians. Coming to the fundamental question. Is India shining, or sinking? The eminent 98 year old Kannada litterateur, Prof G. Venkatasubbiah in a recent interview was asked whether he had hope for the country. He said as things could not be worse than what it is now, it can only get better. India will rise. That is the message.
Sunday, 13 March 2011
at the lowest ebb?
Prasad-pointofview
Mainstream journalism at the lowest ebb?
Today’s Monday 14 March 2011) “national newspaper”, the Times of India (founded 1838!) makes my blood boil. Go to the page covering world news, you will know why. On one side you have the report covering the Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear radiation hazard tragedy of horrendous dimension. Immediately adjacent to this are snippets of some pop star’s wardrobe malfunction, some celeb cutting her hair and so on. This is simply nauseating. Why? Why has this old lady of Bori Bunder degenerated into peddling mostly such rubbish? To be the largest circulated newspaper in the country? This riles. On most days, it takes half a minute to skim through the supplement and not more than five minutes to go through the main pages. The profound and the profane? The sublime and the ridiculous? Pursuit of trivia is overcoming everything else.
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