More on the
elitist mindset
This letter is to add to the most recent
letter to The Hoot on elitist mindset.
This letter is to add to the most recent letter to The Hoot on elitist
mindset. Let us add all the editorials and columns on "remembering
Sept.11th" from Indian Express and The Hindu. Let us compare the
number we get with the number of articles/columns on drought (which does not go
away overnight), or "remembering that two huge armies are still at
India-Pakistan border" or "remembering Tehelka" or
"remembering that George Fernandes
is still the Defence Minister"
or----one can go on.
What is worse, there was an article in the Indian Express by someone from CNN!!
Such a phenomenon in the world of Mathematics is called "Old boy¿s
network". How about something on Afghanistan and the mess all of us
(including India) have contributed to. They are leading a Gujarat-size
fearful life everyday for the past however many years.
Writing this letter makes me wonder whether such letters from anyone matter at
all. Times of India will continue to have half-naked women on its pages
(liberation of women they say; will they
please have a series on all kinds of clothing that men and women wear in India
some which expose large parts of the body without being crude), The Hindu will continue to act noble,
leftist and the Indian Express will continue to be "balanced",
without "remembering that George Fernandes is still the Defence Minister".
Uma Iyer
Bloomington.
September 14, 2002