Lets read what little knowledge of technology means between ‘Hindi Medium Types’ (HMT / BJP) and English Medium Types (EMT / Congress) The EMT were the elite in pink champagne socialist India. The HMT were the underclass, the unwashed masses. The EMT, of course, went to English medium schools and then entered the portals of colleges like St Stephen’s. The HMT, needless to say, went to Hindi medium schools and then to the local college and enrolled for part-time courses in stenography and typing. The EMT subscribed to Junior Statesman while the HMT read Dharmyug cover to cover and made SP Singh a household name, giving birth to his slogan “Ek Ravivar, Sara Parivar”. The EMT went on to join the IFS, IAS and IPS. The HMT were happy to get clerical jobs. The intellectual EMT were into Grateful Dead and Fleetwood Mac. The HMT hummed along with Kishore Kumar and religiously tuned into Binaca Geetmala. This explains why the number of viewers of English television channels is an immeasurably small fraction of those who watch Hindi television channels. But this is not about the BJP whose earlier avatar, the BJS, made a fetish of Hindi – nor is this about the Congress, founded by the English Medium Types. The BJP had a website long before most journalists knew what “www” stood for. The party’s online outreach began not in 2014 but in 1996. LK Advani was reading books on a Kindle when no editor had heard of e-books. Computers at 11 Ashoka Road were networked when newspaper unions were blocking photo typesetting. And this is where The Times of India comes in: The readership of the largest circulated English language newspaper lags way behind the readership of Hindi language newspapers. So, for The Times of India to crack a smart one-liner to pull rank over the HMT is at one level absurd, at another ironical, and at a third stupendously hilarious. Not least because “knowledge of technology”, as we understand it in the 21st century, was never the preserve of the EMT (Congress). timesofindia.indiatimes/india/Modi-stamp-on-Jaitleys-100-day-presentation/articleshow/41308575.cms
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:38:52 +0000
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