P Sainath's Nero's Guests; And The Alternate Reality The Indian Left Creates For Educated Indians
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(The following was written, and published on Facebook, by Anang Pal Malik on 30-09-2012, in response to P Sainath's documentary Nero's Guests. -Ed) V S Naipaul says that almost all novels by Indian authors are autobiographical because Indians know so little beyond their immediate family. They observe nothing, read nothing about their own communities, their own country, and their own history. When they get chance to travel, they are so absorbed that they are not able to observe the train coach they are travelling in. He quoted Gandhi’s writing on his travels to England and showed that all the time Gandhi was talking to himself in his head instead of observing the people and places he was visiting. And that is how this agrarian crisis, or Farmer Suicides, has become such an in thing with the urban educated Indians. Because they know nothing about India, beyond their homes and close relatives. I don’t know whether Sainath ever read Premchand or saw the movie
P Sainath's Nero's Guests; And The Alternate Reality The Indian Left Creates For Educated Indians
P Sainath's Nero's Guests; And The Alternate…
P Sainath's Nero's Guests; And The Alternate Reality The Indian Left Creates For Educated Indians
(The following was written, and published on Facebook, by Anang Pal Malik on 30-09-2012, in response to P Sainath's documentary Nero's Guests. -Ed) V S Naipaul says that almost all novels by Indian authors are autobiographical because Indians know so little beyond their immediate family. They observe nothing, read nothing about their own communities, their own country, and their own history. When they get chance to travel, they are so absorbed that they are not able to observe the train coach they are travelling in. He quoted Gandhi’s writing on his travels to England and showed that all the time Gandhi was talking to himself in his head instead of observing the people and places he was visiting. And that is how this agrarian crisis, or Farmer Suicides, has become such an in thing with the urban educated Indians. Because they know nothing about India, beyond their homes and close relatives. I don’t know whether Sainath ever read Premchand or saw the movie