On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Tim Bray wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/12/mumbai-arundhati-roy/print >> This is interesting: >> http://greatbong.net/2008/12/16/the-algebra-of-infinite-fundamentalism/ > Udhay, please expand. Which of these do you find more compelling? >
Certainly what she has written is more compelling (though some ideas are completely misplaced...)... and of course its difficult to compare write-ups of a novelist vs that of a blogger... (in the sense that the writing style adds to the interest...). Still... the point about the hotel makes sense in some way...You have naxalites operating with impunity in parts of the country... you have parts of the east which arent really under any government control... many deaths never even get reported because they happen far away from shopping malls/ cinemas and hotels... But I guess that is the nature of things, I have been to the taj mahal hotel so perhaps it matters more to me than 100 people who were shot dead in some unknown village in orissa....
