Onti, scroll down deepa and see please! On 12/3/08, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Deepa Mohan wrote, [on Tuesday 02 December 2008 09:31 PM]: > > > > > By Kanishka Lahiri, a Bangalore-based professional in the > > > semiconductor industry. To send him feedback, please email him > > > directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > What a strangely fact-free piece of prose. > > > > Rather than (re)inflict my male opinion of Mlle Roy on the list, I point > > you at an earlier message by one of our female members: > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/19343 > > > > Udhay > > In these days of instant wisdom (whizdom?) where all haloed, hallowed, hollowed & borrowed or ourtight 'maaro'ed' opinions are available at the click of a mouse or a flick of the handset, anyone (including misself) can have very erudite opinions on anything and everything, it is besides the point whether one is thorougly and painstakingly ignorant.
I have read Ma'am Roy right from her Anand Grower story to the af-Frontline articulations. From a literary point of view there are heck a lot of problems with her narratives and prose - but these would pale into insignificance if one considers the integrity perspectives. I wrote a long erudite rant on my misgivings - must have been a 7 years back when I was fresh from my NLP initiation - and was astonished at the divergence between words and deeds *and* the bawdylanguage of Ma'am Roy. It was so cute but my rant (fool of footnotes and annotations and everything else) was too jaundiced I felt, even by my own stundards. So in one stroke deleted it. Sadly so. It could have provided some more ammo to Monsieur Lahiri - I fit into a few of the metadata of his petpeeve-population - and his polemic could have been taken to stratospheric heights, what the lahiri of outpouring it could have been, propelled by selfrighteous angst! But, just as Ma'am Roy has a right to her opinion, so does Monsieur Lahiri. The only thing is that they (of course they include I) dont have a right to be taken seriously. I think I have learnt to identify polemic when I see (and ah, write) one - and apart from the sudden urge to trash something, ably aided by my much abused adrenalin, there is not much fun or learning in these transactions. I try not to take part in these kinds of stuff, but you see, Ma'am Roy is a symbol of convergence of quite few things that are wrong, just as the mention of Oprah win frey my temper. :-( > Did you send him the feedback? > That's his opinion, why don't you ask him for the facts on which it's based? > Deepa. > Again Deepa, no point in asking for 'facts' on which a Ma'am Roy or a Monsieur Lahiri or yours truly, for that matter. Rashomon macht frei. Or better still Shichinin no Samurai. So ends this metarant, In which ramjee gives it those ones. 8-) Ha.(actually grrr) -- http://www.qsl.net/vu2sro/ The lyfe so short, the Craft so long to lerne. -- Geoffrey Chaucer (The Assembly of Fowles)
