Incidentally,
On 24-Mar-10, at 11:02 AM, Shoba Narayan wrote:
There are enough dispassionate, logical, objective, on-the-one-hand
type writers.
Do you really believe that? I don't see it.
I don't consider myself a spiritual person. My only shred of what can
be considered faith lies in the vain hope that our shared social and
technological problems can be solved through rational thought and
discussion in the service of a soundly-reasoned humanistic framework.
What I see in news media and popular sources of opinion (at least the
ones targetted to me and people like me) couldn't be farther from that
ideal - poorly argued, poorly researched, emotionally manipulative
drama designed to stir the heart and sell eyeballs. We could write Roy
off as just another nautanki artist and forget about her, but you know
- in some small way I am her audience and I have trouble agreeing with
her, and that frustrates me.
Modi on-the-other-hand. There is not a word, a gesture, a facial tic,
a tiny gust of broken wind that is not part of the strategy to win the
next election. It is clear to me and I am arrogant enough to believe
that it is clear to other people like me, but I am not who he is
talking to. My frustration in this case is reserved for the people who
buy into his bullshit.
-Taj.
