Monday, January 14, 2008

India Arrives: Swapan Dasgupta

Nice article by Swapan, with a lesson or two for our pre-historic "Netas"...

2 comments:

Sameer said...

Wishing all a Happy Sankranthi / Pongal / Bihu / Lohri.

Read this... more Daughters-of-the-millet...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/indiabroadcast/20080115/r_t_ibn_nl_general/tnl-femme-fatales-isi-s-new-weapon-is-no-3a4f8c1.html

This about the in-efficiency of Indian police which is still in the British-Nehruvian era like our netas...
http://in.news.yahoo.com/indiabroadcast/20080114/r_t_ibn_nl_general/tnl-it-engineer-sues-cops-for-wrongly-ar-3a4f8c1.html

This is regarding Sabarimala... is this a new myth created by our 'seclar' media?
http://in.news.yahoo.com/indiabroadcast/20080114/r_t_ibn_nl_general/tnl-sabrimala-now-a-symbol-of-communal-h-3a4f8c1.html
Cant say, because i come from a place which has a famous Shiva Temple, which has a muslim dargah inside the complex. (It has a legend)

Kalidasa said...

Rajeev,

Finally, someone wrote it. The last paragraph in Swapan's article is something I have been shouting from rooftops for years now and in India, "respect the old" syndrome has fed to this...pronounced inferiority complex and servitude.

He hits the nail on the head, "political india lives in mental captivity. The merger of politics and swabhiman is overdue"...much like your MMS growing spine in a petri dish comment.