is TIME cover story the kiss of death? ye gads! now @dhume01 will tell me it's a conspiracy theory :-)

so maybe they got jyoti thottam to write this with malefic intent? :-(

to be honest, i find TIME quite repulsive. it is utterly middlebrow; and it's probably good to read it when you are under 25, but beyond that, it is a bit like reading, well, readers' digest. the latter is at least honest enough to tell you they are giving you pre-digested pabulum, but TIME puts on airs. did you hear how they recently promoted a first-class prize ass and india-hater, aparisim bobby ghosh, to be 'editor at large'? i rest my case. this ghosh character used to write the most obnoxious and tendentious stuff when he was with the late lamented FEER. sort of like a cross between bdutt and teesta, with prannoy roy and brinda karat and kancha ilaiah and rajdeep sardesai thrown in for good measure. 

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From: Radha Rajan
Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Subject: Time Cover - Good grief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was planning an acerbic comment on ecstatic response to Time Cover bullshit. But this beats anything I may have said. Someone has a sense of the macabre. RR