sandeepweb rocks. JAIPUR LIT FEST : "FESTIVAL OF THE POLITICALLY CORRECT SISSIES" !!!!!!!

jan 28th, 2012 CE

sandeep takes the great white mogul whale and his festival to the cleaners.

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http://www.sandeepweb.com/2012/01/25/festival-of-the-politically-correct-sissies-part-1/

Festival of the Politically Correct Sissies: Part 1

 

Sandeep

January 25, 2012

There's nothing literary about the Jaipur Literary Festival. It's as political as political is. The list of who's who that make up its firmament year after year reads like the Forbes List of Liberal Fundamentalists.  Perhaps Dalrymple's List of Liberal Fundamentalists is a more accurate phrase. What "literature" have Shobaa De, Manil Suri, Pankaj Mishra, Ashis Nandy, Sonia Falerio, Suketu Mehta, Annie Zaidi, Anurag Mathur, and Tarun Tejpal written? Here's a sample of the kind of "literary" discussions you get at that "festival:" political trash, milking the victimhood mammary, non-existent identity issues, gender nonsense, and the rest.

And it isn't surprising because what has been bandied about as literature starting roughly from a couple of decades after World War 2 is usually this: sob stories of oppressed/colonized people, shrill & vacuous feminism, and increasingly, micro-sub-specialization of the Oppression/Victimhood sob stories—here's an idea for your next novel:

The Utterly Agonizing (or Utterly Heroic) Story of a Black (oh wait, make that "African American") Muslim American Woman, the child of a single dad, who struggles against all odds to become a pilot in an international airline. For added drama, have this pilot-chick go in search of her mother who had left the family when this pilot-chick was a kid. In the course of her flying to various international destinations, bring her to India where she finds that her mother was a Dalit nurse who had briefly stayed in the US, fell in love with this pilot-chick's African American Muslim father and gave birth to her.

THIS is the specimen of "literature" served at vulgar political charades like the Jaipur Literary Festival. Hell, you don't even need to read such books in full: just the title & a few words in the blurb is enough to give you a fair idea of the variety of the manure within.

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