Comments on: CNN-IBN’s Script Gone Wrong

By: Martian

Martian — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:01:20 +0000

It is high time BJP boycotted all of these psec media.
Being present there and answering them,
- it gives credibility and adds the illusion of neutrality to the Media.
- All of BJP men including the heavy weights are not more than a punching bag or a ridicule factor in such discussions, then why go there.
- By projecting the real neutral people like Swapan or Chandan as Right leaning faggots, the centre of neutrality is pushed into deep red down left, This obviously makes BJP look like Fanatics.

Let them blabber and argue with themselves. They will and should come back to BJP with white flag, after which the magnitude of rhetoric could be diluted to some extent.
I’ve personally sent the message to Sri.Ravishankar Prasad. I request you all to let BJP somehow get this urgent need of the hour.

By: kaangeya

kaangeya — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:46:42 +0000

Shailendra,

Ram Guha’s article was published in the EPW, IIRC. You can find a link to Guha’s review on this blog post here http://locana.blogspot.com/2005/10/argumentative-indian.html.
The comments too are interesting.

You will have to search for Baalu’s review of Argumentative… Tunku Varadarajan wrote a fine review of Sen’s 2nd disaster - Identity and Violence. You can look it up on OpinionJournal.com

By: MEDIAPOLITICS

MEDIAPOLITICS — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:36:22 +0000

I have witnessed the TV program when ChandanMitra was cut-off midsentence. Are they honest media people?, are they serving our country well ? What prompts such media persons to prevent other views on television. Answer is obvious.

By: Shailendra Mathur

Shailendra Mathur — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:21:35 +0000

Hey Kaangeya, can you possibly point me to Guha’s article wherein he made mincemeat of Sen’s work? Has there been a similar critique of the disingenous Identity and Violence, written as Sen’s reply to Huntington’s Clash of civilizations?

By: hari

hari — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:28:42 +0000

I’d love to see your opinion on the current Gujjar agitation, Sandeep.

By: kaangeya

kaangeya — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:31:20 +0000

Ram Guha knows English only, and as for Indian languages, he is limited to ABCD - Ayah, Bearer, Cook, Driver

But let’s be fair to Ram. He is the only “intellectual” who ripped apart Amartya Sen’s poorly edited, sclerotic anthology, Argumentative…, and masterfully at that. The only better rubbishing of Sen is Baalu’s, which of course is in another league entirely.

By: Shailendra Mathur

Shailendra Mathur — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:14:23 +0000

I wonder if it wouldn’t be a good idea for BJP to boycott the NDTVs, Star News and the CNN-IBNs of the world. As it is BJP gets bad press from them, and do what it will it wont be able to change the attitude of the “secular” media.

BJP boycotting them will mean that their shows and discussions will be populated only by ranting Leftists and terrorist sympathisers, and sooner or later this will lead to public backlash and dropping TRPs. Not that it matters, beause Saudi coffers will open up, but at least the unsuspecting public will at least get to see their true face.