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Made Popular Mar 19 2008
As a newspaperman I have often felt what I do is an exercise in futility. A clerical job at best, as far removed from people’s issues as a Mandal is from Malabar Hill. Do we really care to dig what cookie-cutter corporate types rubbish as infra-dig?
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Ranita
Mar 20 2008
kolkata,
India
I know, this is a question i myself have asked my conscience a lot times. When such issues hanker about then just one thing that comes to my mind is have we at all as a country so called ’united in diversity’ moved out of the clutches of caste discriminations and racial prejudices at all? Isn’t it quite hypocritic a job to report news in a state of affairs, but then can’t really blame the poor journalists who are forced to look over their editorial policies at the whims and fancies of the overhauling powers.
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(Local Perspectives)
The caste system, to an uninitiated foreigner like myself, seems to be so very anachronistic. The first thing which comes to mind is the social castes in Aldous Huxley’s ”Brave New World”.
If the Indian caste system was developed as a result of and in response to particular historical and sociological conditions, now that the world has moved on from these historical conditions - why is the caste system still being employed ? To put it in a Zen sense - now that we have crossed the river, why do we still carry the boat ?
If the Indian caste system was developed as a result of and in response to particular historical and sociological conditions, now that the world has moved on from these historical conditions - why is the caste system still being employed ? To put it in a Zen sense - now that we have crossed the river, why do we still carry the boat ?
(Global Perspectives)
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