Sunday, September 03, 2006

The "Racism" race

Karan Thapar and Jug Suraiya have put their views on the Dutch Drama....each in their own style..Jug has tried to bring out the racism present amongst Indians vis a vis their intranational portrayals..Bongs..Punjus...Biharis..how one has got typical stereotype image of others....Karan,on the other hand,has written on the correctness of Dutch action and the behaviour of Indians in general regarding this..His article,as was Goswami's a week ago,also cited personal examples of having seen Whites scrutinised in the similar way....Vir Sanghvi lectured on Vande Mataram(Barkha Dutt,has also written on the same topic in HT last week)...Both the articles(Vir's and Barkha's)brings out the inadequacy of students of 'posh" schools in Metros to understand the contexts that matter(or atleast that touches a rawnerve for majority of urban india)in most part of urban india middle class..that also shows the remoteness intheir understanding when they comment on topics like vande mataram..and their proficiency(especially Vir's..barkha is the queen of on spot reporting)in completing a column by more of english language and less of content takeaway.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There is a merit in what you are saying.English press is at a variance withthe lifestyle of majority of its readers.It is trying to pander to the greed of the middle class.Look at the supplements that they publish.And you will know what I mean.Splurge!Kya baat hai.