Brilliant article by Pankaj Mishra. But a near-total silence from politicians and the mainstream media greeted, as Ive noted above, the extraordinary doubling of gas prices in India. When Reliance attempted to throttle the book { Gas Wars by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta} about it, those columnists who had denounced Penguin for agreeing to withdraw Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History went oddly quiet. And given the toadification of large parts of the Indian media, to paraphrase Salman Rushdie, it may even croak out some malicious joy as more independent-minded journalists depart what does look increasingly like a toad-breeding swamp....Pankaj Mishra P.S. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is a Stephanian
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 03:50:41 +0000
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