Our local Noam-Chomsky: Navin bhai Panwalla
US is us: the civilized outgrown inborn of Ms. Frankestein
& Mr. Hyde
Seen from the cliff: the boiling lava rupturing underneath the
mountain base is an extraordinary view:
That
is what the Column by Pritish Nandy is titled: Extraordinary Issues. Nothing against the enterprising businessman
and the Mac aficionado, who like the charismatic Shammi Kapoor were a few of
the only Apple advocates of India’s
previous generations.
New Age Journalists:
Commentators-cum-opinion-makers-cum-critics-of-the-same-opinions-and-commentories:
The
unfortunate wave that is taking India,
nay, the entire world is the storm of this affliction. The gravity of this
disorder if the motivation of the Stock indices and the virtuous-fraternity
that such proponents are usually actively part of. The poet of the 19 century
called such people, in his unique style, “anjum
shanaas” in one of the verses that he wrote about the refutation of the general
rhetoric of such people. He writes:
Tere maqam ko anjum shanaas
kya jaane
Ki Khaak-e-zinda hai to
taaba-e-sittara nai
Translated:
Those whose conscience is
encapsulated in the groupist-culture
That you are a lively-soil and not just a dependent on the movement of the
stars
[Please
bear with the rough translation]
The
point of contention, of this analysis, is that these species and their
handiwork is increasingly becoming noticeable, while, it is at the same time becoming increasingly vague for media
activists or watchers to talk about
them.
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