Monday, November 17, 2003
In a strange twist of events, North Bengal is a seething cauldron of civic unrest while recent events at Assam have shaken up a lot of people. It is a strange twist of fate that the proper heartland more often than not seems to be oblivious to the general sentiment of the people in those particular regions of the nation.
Runa Bhattacharjee has begun (perhaps) an insightful look into the situation 'Through Myopic Eyes'. Having had an extensive experience of the locale, it seems that the snippets might turn out to be interesting enough. The hyperlink to her blog is available on the sidebar.
The Telegraph on Sunday (16/11/2003) carried an article about the 'Bookseller of Kabul' - a book that is mired in legal wrangles. The report barely touches upon the issues and the analysis is skimpy to say the least (and this is a malady that afflicts all the leading dailies - what does this mean ? people are too keen to receive the digest version ?) but it does cover an important issue. For far too long, locale perspectives have distorted and provided biased opinions of national issues and this is far more glaring in case of foreigners writing about 'happening news' with a sensationalist bent of mind. Is this based on the premise that anything that is ethnic and unusual will appeal to a global population ? Or is it simply a failure to understand the human dynamics and thus arriving at bewildering conclusions ?
- posted by sankarshan @ 11/17/2003 06:42:00 AM
