A lot has been written in media on the aggressive and emotional speech of Smt. Smriti Irani. Her speech has become talk of the town.
After little reluctance, I hesitantly searched for it on you tube and listened to some bits and pieces of it. In my opinion, the content of the speech is overshadowed by her drama and "Tulsi effect". She is unnecessarily rhetorical. May be a part of it is forced due to opposition's hullabaloo. But the way she presented the facts was brow raising.
I am not a big fan of her since her Tulsi days. I used to hate it when year after year, every time I visited home, i would find my whole family glued to television. They would be thrilled, shocked and awestruck with the new machinations in her family and new adventures of her to break even the situation.
What pained me most was her unnecessarily invocation of Durga in parliament. Just to score a political point, she is diving the country by giving importance to such poster. And in the process she forgot that she is making the tribals who pray Mahisasur, a possible victim of whatsApp and facebook trials. As a HRD minister, she ought to possess better understanding of India's culture.
A bigger menace prevailing in the society is of WhatsApp. As such WhatsApp is a useful tool for instant messaging and media sharing. But what troubles me is the kind of content which floats on these media networks. A message I read was advocating a repeat of Tianmann square massacre in JNU. Another message was calling for heads of Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid. Such kind of passionate thoughts without supporting evidence and sound reasoning will soon mark the death of democracy and pave path for rise of fascism. Here I am not supporting Kanhaiya and Umar. Anyway matter is sub-judice and there has been enough of media trial so its better to wait and watch the court proceedings. What I am concerned about is lack of understanding among we Indians about idea of India.
I finished reading Arundhati Roy's "The Algebra of infinite justice". It talks about various things and one among them is idea of India where she slowly strips down rightist mentality. Anyway that requires a separate book review blog.
now off to sleep. Goodnight.
After little reluctance, I hesitantly searched for it on you tube and listened to some bits and pieces of it. In my opinion, the content of the speech is overshadowed by her drama and "Tulsi effect". She is unnecessarily rhetorical. May be a part of it is forced due to opposition's hullabaloo. But the way she presented the facts was brow raising.
I am not a big fan of her since her Tulsi days. I used to hate it when year after year, every time I visited home, i would find my whole family glued to television. They would be thrilled, shocked and awestruck with the new machinations in her family and new adventures of her to break even the situation.
What pained me most was her unnecessarily invocation of Durga in parliament. Just to score a political point, she is diving the country by giving importance to such poster. And in the process she forgot that she is making the tribals who pray Mahisasur, a possible victim of whatsApp and facebook trials. As a HRD minister, she ought to possess better understanding of India's culture.
A bigger menace prevailing in the society is of WhatsApp. As such WhatsApp is a useful tool for instant messaging and media sharing. But what troubles me is the kind of content which floats on these media networks. A message I read was advocating a repeat of Tianmann square massacre in JNU. Another message was calling for heads of Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid. Such kind of passionate thoughts without supporting evidence and sound reasoning will soon mark the death of democracy and pave path for rise of fascism. Here I am not supporting Kanhaiya and Umar. Anyway matter is sub-judice and there has been enough of media trial so its better to wait and watch the court proceedings. What I am concerned about is lack of understanding among we Indians about idea of India.
I finished reading Arundhati Roy's "The Algebra of infinite justice". It talks about various things and one among them is idea of India where she slowly strips down rightist mentality. Anyway that requires a separate book review blog.
now off to sleep. Goodnight.
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