My daughter has written a post on her blog describing things that
annoy her about living in India. Made me sad, but I can hardly argue with
anything she has said there. Take a look.
I am thrilled to see that people are now reading my blog from
all over the American continents, even the South, where I did not have readers
for a long time. I wonder who started the ball rolling?
General elections have been announced, so the country, I guess,
is going to gear up for what is really ‘the biggest show on earth’! Everybody
seems to be sure that it’s going to be a hung parliament this time round, and
the only thing worth speculating upon is what sort of coalition will be cobbled
together to stake a claim to the new government, who will lead the team, and
how long it will last…
The papers have been full of the crisis brewing over the
international standoff centred on Ukraine (some people have gone to the extent
of predicting that World War III is looming.) But the same papers are also
solemnly informing us that midi-skirts are ‘in’ again this season: ‘too much leg
looks jarring, borderline wag’ (t2, p.8, The
Telegraph Calcutta, March 6, 2014). I also read an article about how TV
makes all sorts of professions look artificially easy for the gullible teenage
reader, from physics to law to math. I was laughing inwardly all the time while
discussing ideas for an essay in class titled ‘News is not news today, it’s
what the media manufacture for us’. I hope my own pupils will be a little
better equipped to negotiate the world they are growing up in, forewarned.
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