Or to be a bit fair perhaps, more accurately the caste-obsession of its writer Paul Beckett. I have ranted his earlier inane WSJ article. This latest one is pretty terrible as well (H/T: Rohit). Doesn’t add anything new - India is growing at a good rate, opportunities for everyone yadda yadda. But the Beckett chaps [...]
…..are immense, as evinced by the following headline: “Rain saves India after Clarke ton” and the subsequent statement:
But rain began falling in the third over of India’s reply to end the tourists’s chances of making a winning start to the seven-match series.
This, in an ODI match that was abandoned only 2 overs after the Indian [...]
Pankaj Mishra writes an opinion piece for Outlook’s India at 60 issue , seemingly cautioning on excessive championing of and reveling in India’s current resurgence at the cost of insensitivity to myriad problem that still plague the country. I say seemingly because that’s how he starts, and then meanders along without meaning much, while ending [...]
What does caste, Hinduism, IT jobs and cricket (all with reference to India) have in common ? They feature in two recent examples of rank poor journalism and grossly ignorant (perhaps deliberate) misinterpretation of India by western journalists. Therefore, opportunities to rant !
In brief, exhibit A: according to Paul Beckett of Wall Street Journal, [...]
During a writing course I had attended last year, it was repeatedly stressed upon us that how you begin and end a sentence has significant impact in conveying your idea.
The same, I guess goes for news headlines.
In response to the fracas last August at Oval, where during the last cricket test match between England and [...]
It is not me indulging in dire apocalyptic predictions, but the news-channels - both the mind-numbing cable twenty-four hours as well as the brain-dead broadcast network variety - are mighty worried. Recent world events (conflict in the Middle East, heat wave in the US etc) seems to have convinced them that the end is near. [...]
Note: I have been having synchronization issues with my blog-editor and WP.com - hence this post may have appeared multiple times if you are using a feed reader. I apologize for any inconvenience.
A day after, the official death toll from the Mumbai blasts is 190. As expected, the famed resilience of Mumbai-ites is coming [...]
Most of you are probably aware by now - cowardly terrorists have stuck again in Mumbai. There has been seven explosions on local trains at various stations on the western line. The latest updates say about 100 dead and more than 400 injured.
Phone lines to Mumbai are expectedly busy - I was able to get [...]
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