"-----Original Message-----
From: Arin Basu <arin.basu@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:59:48
At least Anna Hazare is from our dad's generation, which is a reassuring thing that all did not go in vain. So, what are you planning to do about supporting Anna Hazare's fast and his movement?
/Arin
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Arin was keen to know about the sweeping change India is undergoing right now.
As I wrote back,
"... Sadly enough, I observe some pathetic intellectualisation of his movement by a section of the "cocktail elite" from the media, branding it as 'television tamasha' and anti-development. (3 hours back I heard Manu Joseph , editor of Open magazine, commenting in a TV newshour debate," There are two "Indias" - 'us' and those who vote.."!) I wonder how many Indias we have created to confront by now, with our progressive intellectual exercises in tennis club evenings and caffeine afternoons in art galleries, and which one to identify for my 2 year old daughter..
It is easy to loose direction when any movement gathers momentum ( sadly anti-physics!) and we should be watchful especially with our intellectual watchdogs barking in intellectual unision, yet I can only see Hope.."
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Arin's reply :
"-----Original Message-----
From: Arin Basu <arin.basu@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:44:32
To: <drchodri@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: A Letter to a friend
I share very similar sentiments as yours. My advantage is that, I do not live in India and therefore I do not have to live up
with the kind of crap that the magazine editor of Open for example was saying in TV as you wrote, "us" and "them" India. To me, India is one country, dammit, at least it was when I last checked. People may look
and talk a little different (I mean then again not that different),but we are all in it together.
I am excited to follow Anna Hazare's movement. It's exciting to think
we are finally going to get a strong ombudsman agency to take care of
corruption in public life, and that it's going to happen in front of
our eyes. It can't get better than that.
/Arin
Sent from my iPad...."
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It was with great sadness that I bitched about India's respected and reasoned journalist Manu Joseph who seems to have lost all sanity and sensitivity (along with the money Hasan must have duped him off too, to stash away in his Scandinavian black pool).
And here is one of the exact foci where the vain irony of India's destiny finds secure shelter. Here is an Indian who pledges support and solidarity towards his compatriots in one of the most testing times Indian democracy has ever confronted. He provides us hope with a voice that represents what the world is feeling about the sweeping change India is undergoing,... and a pointer too to the degree of hurt exasperation and hatred we all have gradually developed over the years as a reaction to the utter decadence our political-bureaucratic 'mafia' has been cheating us to, with criminal apathy and complete lack of scrupules.
And it points to the intellectual corruption that has eaten away into segments of India's 'elite and the educated' -- the ever - conscientious fifth column who should be guiding us to freedom of propriety. It is our own people that has been letting us down, sitting smug in air-conditioned seminars over coffee and wine. Manu Joseph seems to be the personification of The Great Indian Cerebral Hypocrisy that finds Anna Hazare's fight a 'TV show', and brands India's new found voice as anti development.
This is one utter bovine faecal material that has been flourishing in our contemplative educated elite with heavily accented thoroughfare, that we should be guarding against...
Let's go for it.
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