The only way to enjoy Rohit Shetty’s film Simmba is by leaving your principles and values at the popcorn counter.
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The PM did make a valid point when he criticised the Congress for categorising the entire Muslim community in Karnataka under the Other Backward Classes. It is pure appeasement of Ashraaf Muslims and discriminates against Pasmandas.
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The announcement, made by JeM’s Maktab-ul-Rabita, or office for communication, comes 2 yrs after Pakistani officials claimed the militant was living under Taliban protection.
Author’s opinion about absence of ‘desi’ intellectuals is a valid point. However, relying again on western left oriented intellectuals like Chomsky to define intellectuals and fit intellectuals in the same mould is not a pristine idea.
IT REALLY LACKS NAMES OF ORIGINAL THINKERS IN SOUTHERN REGIONS WHO ARE PROMINENETLY REVISITING LOCAL FOLKS AND THEIR THOUGHT PROCESS
Author’s opinion about absence of ‘desi’ intellectuals is a valid point. However, relying again on western left oriented intellectuals like Chomsky to define intellectuals and fit intellectuals in the same mould is not a pristine idea.
IT REALLY LACKS ORIGINAL THINKERS IN SOUTHERN REGIONS WHICH ARE PROPOSING NEW THOUGHTS WITH THEIR REVISIT OF LOCAL FOLKS AND THOUGHT PROCESS
Lists such as these or the one that inspired this list simply deserve to be laughed at. They are a reflection of bias, stupidity and blinkered thinking.
One name I choose to refute is from Malayalam , K Sachithanandan..he was never seen in Kerala and was always cozying up to the Lutyns Delhi powers irrespective of who in power is.,The man is a communist prop up who was in silent mode whenever communist violence engulfed Kerala. Over all pount that only English speaking people are represented is correct but ThePrint is in English..so ask Aajtak to do a similar list.,and names from vernacular press will come..
Mr Apoorvanand deserves praise for invoking the “Dalit, Muslim, Disabled not-included angle” in the sham exercise of identifying future intellectuals. The issues raised by Apoorvanand, shows the extent to which people are willing to go to build their CV for future rewards like Padmi Shri etc. If you want a Govt Samman, the best way is to abuse the so-called UC, and simultaneously introduce the “Dalit, Muslim, Disabled excluded” angle. One can understand the “marginalised, excluded” argument of Apoorvanand, had the list been issued by the Govt, but how can one protest a list compiled by some private individuals? By the way, there are indeed, several individuals of the Dalit, Muslim category in the list which Mr Apoorvanand has chosen to ignore.
Modi is right when he says I speak in Hindi for domestic audience not in English for international audience.
The issue with our lists is very burning and vivid- These recommendations come from or are about people whose successes are defined by
1)English language skills
2) Their networking in the Anglo-Saxon world of Indians, from American universities to British Indians to elites in India matter than anything else.
4)The lack of intellectuals from technical, Engineering and Science background is very stark.
3) Majority of them show various caste/religion/regions of the intellectuals and confirm various issues of representation.
4) The idea that western educated Indians knows better about Indians than Indian residents helps to maintain and controll the elite sytem created by these intellectuals where they reject the rest. For ex. Journalist getting Fulbright felloships become something than somebody who has worked on the ground.
5)Ex. Somebody suggested Gurmeher Kaur though I did not find Kanhaiya Kumar anywhere. She has one book published by ‘penguine India’ where as he has stirred Indian mind with very strong understandings on various issues and he has Phd from JNU. She is Punjabi but he is Bihari from non-elite background. Or Shehla Rashid from Kashmir was as much deserving if you are going to add G Kaur who totally lacks anything to be part of the list.
6)we need economist who can see value in pakoda economics or finances of chaiwala or other street vendors and address their challenges. Or authors who can unlike the likes of Nandini Sundar or Arundhati Roy who see tribal rights, welfare in binary terms but those who can redefine their way of life, relations with nature and its integration with mainstream.
The majority of the intellectuals lacks what is necessary- the sense of Indian reality and defining its needs and real picture. Many of them walk and talk like foreigners in India. Which is real tragedy of our intellectuals because we dont publish what Gurumurthy wrote about Indian economy and his opinions on RBI. We write about these issues from those who serve American interests and try to apply their theories to India, little realising the difference and the real priorities of India.
Look at the book by Snigdha Poonam. Such language even British don’t write about India.
Even it took international experience for Kumar Mangalam Birla to throw shackles of this English obsession and he started praising Indians beyond English world. I don’t about Indian English aristocracy.
It was an expected position and it gives me pleasure to read and re-read this wonderful article by Apoorvanand. There is at least someone in India who can define what an intellectual is. It is to be hoped that those who have concocted this list will remember this definition of the intellectual. I would add for myself: we are not dubbed by someone to be considered as intellectual. We are recognized as intellectual by civil society but we are not appointed by people of the system and whatever their competence !!!
Author’s opinion about absence of ‘desi’ intellectuals is a valid point. However, relying again on western left oriented intellectuals like Chomsky to define intellectuals and fit intellectuals in the same mould is not a pristine idea.
IT REALLY LACKS NAMES OF ORIGINAL THINKERS IN SOUTHERN REGIONS WHO ARE PROMINENETLY REVISITING LOCAL FOLKS AND THEIR THOUGHT PROCESS
Author’s opinion about absence of ‘desi’ intellectuals is a valid point. However, relying again on western left oriented intellectuals like Chomsky to define intellectuals and fit intellectuals in the same mould is not a pristine idea.
IT REALLY LACKS ORIGINAL THINKERS IN SOUTHERN REGIONS WHICH ARE PROPOSING NEW THOUGHTS WITH THEIR REVISIT OF LOCAL FOLKS AND THOUGHT PROCESS
Lists such as these or the one that inspired this list simply deserve to be laughed at. They are a reflection of bias, stupidity and blinkered thinking.
One name I choose to refute is from Malayalam , K Sachithanandan..he was never seen in Kerala and was always cozying up to the Lutyns Delhi powers irrespective of who in power is.,The man is a communist prop up who was in silent mode whenever communist violence engulfed Kerala. Over all pount that only English speaking people are represented is correct but ThePrint is in English..so ask Aajtak to do a similar list.,and names from vernacular press will come..
Interestingly one guy (intellectual) who is already very old recommends two names older than him as nextgen intellectuals!
Mr Apoorvanand deserves praise for invoking the “Dalit, Muslim, Disabled not-included angle” in the sham exercise of identifying future intellectuals. The issues raised by Apoorvanand, shows the extent to which people are willing to go to build their CV for future rewards like Padmi Shri etc. If you want a Govt Samman, the best way is to abuse the so-called UC, and simultaneously introduce the “Dalit, Muslim, Disabled excluded” angle. One can understand the “marginalised, excluded” argument of Apoorvanand, had the list been issued by the Govt, but how can one protest a list compiled by some private individuals? By the way, there are indeed, several individuals of the Dalit, Muslim category in the list which Mr Apoorvanand has chosen to ignore.
Modi is right when he says I speak in Hindi for domestic audience not in English for international audience.
The issue with our lists is very burning and vivid- These recommendations come from or are about people whose successes are defined by
1)English language skills
2) Their networking in the Anglo-Saxon world of Indians, from American universities to British Indians to elites in India matter than anything else.
4)The lack of intellectuals from technical, Engineering and Science background is very stark.
3) Majority of them show various caste/religion/regions of the intellectuals and confirm various issues of representation.
4) The idea that western educated Indians knows better about Indians than Indian residents helps to maintain and controll the elite sytem created by these intellectuals where they reject the rest. For ex. Journalist getting Fulbright felloships become something than somebody who has worked on the ground.
5)Ex. Somebody suggested Gurmeher Kaur though I did not find Kanhaiya Kumar anywhere. She has one book published by ‘penguine India’ where as he has stirred Indian mind with very strong understandings on various issues and he has Phd from JNU. She is Punjabi but he is Bihari from non-elite background. Or Shehla Rashid from Kashmir was as much deserving if you are going to add G Kaur who totally lacks anything to be part of the list.
6)we need economist who can see value in pakoda economics or finances of chaiwala or other street vendors and address their challenges. Or authors who can unlike the likes of Nandini Sundar or Arundhati Roy who see tribal rights, welfare in binary terms but those who can redefine their way of life, relations with nature and its integration with mainstream.
The majority of the intellectuals lacks what is necessary- the sense of Indian reality and defining its needs and real picture. Many of them walk and talk like foreigners in India. Which is real tragedy of our intellectuals because we dont publish what Gurumurthy wrote about Indian economy and his opinions on RBI. We write about these issues from those who serve American interests and try to apply their theories to India, little realising the difference and the real priorities of India.
Look at the book by Snigdha Poonam. Such language even British don’t write about India.
Even it took international experience for Kumar Mangalam Birla to throw shackles of this English obsession and he started praising Indians beyond English world. I don’t about Indian English aristocracy.
It was an expected position and it gives me pleasure to read and re-read this wonderful article by Apoorvanand. There is at least someone in India who can define what an intellectual is. It is to be hoped that those who have concocted this list will remember this definition of the intellectual. I would add for myself: we are not dubbed by someone to be considered as intellectual. We are recognized as intellectual by civil society but we are not appointed by people of the system and whatever their competence !!!