I would take the privilege of calling the opening shots in this blog space, just a restatement of the questions that I had put forth to the panel of Miss Nilekani and Miss Bakshi...
the question was like this,
to quote booker prize winner, Miss Arundhati Roy, India marketing itself as a democracy is one of the biggest public relations scam ever committed on such a grandiose scale..
1. in this light, how does the notion of free market forces and forces of globalisation addressing social inequities not appear as anything but a self defeating arguement and only a mode of gratifying the whiskers of the fat cats of the nation, specifically corporations and ruling dynastic political elite.
2. what is your take on the relevance or the irrelevance of the 4th estate given the fact that major media houses have bartered ideologies of journalism to the free market, where everything is up for sale and the best bidder wins...
About Me
- SS....
- a simple person at first sight may even appear to be a screwball but as the saying goes it is dangerous to judge the book by its cover in my case that might even be fatalistic.....just kidding well am more than what meets the eye....on a mission to make a difference to the way my countrymen are languishing and hence my interest in rural management, the orientation for which was set 3 years back....lets see how much of a change i can cascade during my limited span on the soil of my country....do i sound romantic well its time to practise romanticism before there is nothing left to be romantic about.....isnt it??
