> :) No comments about Sainath then in this context, what did you think of Katherine Boo's book ?
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:17 PM, ashok _ <listmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Sruthi Krishnan <srukr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> What to me seemed like a sensible response to Roy's essay. > > > > What a generous "dharma adi" [0] (charity beating) Ms. Roy is getting > > :) No comments about Sainath then? > > > > Sometimes Sainath makes some sense when he takes apart government > reports or really badly done media stories... but usually he does a > lot of grandstanding by trying to relate different pieces of > information which are not really co-related. e.g. I recall in one of > his video interviews (didnt see this one ) he went on and on about > the Tsunami hitting india and east asia and the stock exchanges making > historic highs at the same time. ( There was a tsunami warning > recently again and i remember the markets tanked that day in > anticipation of the tsunami... maybe Sainath bought some shares > knowing the markets could have reached another all time high had the > warning materialized :-) ) > >
