Peddler of inanity

Welcome to a new year.

I sincerely wish that in this year all readers of this blog (unfortunate and accidental) will get rid of bad breath, lose fat and get a freakin' life.

Now that we are done with formalities, some thing more serious.

Swapan Dasgupta is depressed, being a shill for BJP I am too, and what is more likely to remain so in near future.

Now I realize Journalists are not paid much, I also realize that disregard of facts and common sense is starting point of journalism. Even taking all this into is there any need for Sagarika Ghose to end the year by such a insipid, and to add insult to injury a very hackneyed piece.

"Behold, a new baby! Pushing its way through tubes blocked by national apathy.Bumping against a diseased uterus overgrown with tumours from the colonial past.And breaking free of the umbilical cord of antiquated legalism. What is the name of the Indian baby born in 2006? The baby is named Citizen 2006. And she has come to new life this past year."

How original ! Even if Times had not , in what can be called jumping shark,
declared "you the ignoramus perspicuous" to be person
of the year, Indian citizen has been countless times declared as arrived by
our breathless (and witless) media.
Not content with cliches Ms Ghosh
indulges in the massacre of metaphors, as only witnessed on this blog.

"She has been born with two more powerful older siblings, technology and news media. Her siblings hold her hand and help her toddle to her feet. Yet Citizen
2006 has also been born into a divided country."

The indifference of prose is only matched by the self-congratulatory tone and a feeble attempt at punditry. My (unsolicited) advice, Ms Ghosh is should be banished to page three of TOI, both deserve each other.

"This year in Maharashtra, the Dalit poor attacked the Deccan Queen as a symbol of a train on which they can never travel. The Rajindar
Sachar report showed the agony of Muslims forced every day to display their
patriotism to a suspicious, scornful system. The war over the 27 per
cent OBC quotas was a shriek, now gathering force all over India: include us
in the new prosperity. Citizen 2006 faces a troubled life. But she has defined
an entire year by her existence."

Whoa ! Dalits are not able to travel on Deccan Queen, what are they travelling on then ? Apollo 13 ! Sachar report a most cynical manifestation of vote bank politics, causing even more fragmentation of this country. And of course 27% seats in IITs will ensure prosperity to OBCs.
And this not some doofus blogger, but a very "respectable" journalists.

I end it here, having not the courage to wade through the corpse of English language.
But if you are a weird masochist, who is turned on by triteness, go ahead make your day.

PS . The link was supplied by Rohit. What evil !