Friday, September 15, 2006
24 February, 1997
The Editor
The Free Press Journal Mumbai
In a recent First Edition programme of Metro channel, Messers Chandan Mitra and Dileep Padgaonkar were lyrical about the current publication of love letters of Fidel Castro and Sarojini Naidu, and maintain that publication of such letters have given a better insight into the personality of our leaders. They further mentioned the new book by Wolport where Pandit Nehru’s aberrations were hinted at. Both journalists represent the cream of our intelligentsia, and it is a pity that they are so influenced by the analytical baggage of the western culture as to be out of touch with India’s own ethos of what is public and what is private. The West’s compulsion to prove all its leaders as confirmed perverts, and to go all lengths in the guise of research and free speech to titillate the base instincts of the consumer society, should at least be independently and ethically evaluated by respectable names in our media, before they misuse all the facilities open to them to subvert our society.
#228
The Editor
The Free Press Journal Mumbai
In a recent First Edition programme of Metro channel, Messers Chandan Mitra and Dileep Padgaonkar were lyrical about the current publication of love letters of Fidel Castro and Sarojini Naidu, and maintain that publication of such letters have given a better insight into the personality of our leaders. They further mentioned the new book by Wolport where Pandit Nehru’s aberrations were hinted at. Both journalists represent the cream of our intelligentsia, and it is a pity that they are so influenced by the analytical baggage of the western culture as to be out of touch with India’s own ethos of what is public and what is private. The West’s compulsion to prove all its leaders as confirmed perverts, and to go all lengths in the guise of research and free speech to titillate the base instincts of the consumer society, should at least be independently and ethically evaluated by respectable names in our media, before they misuse all the facilities open to them to subvert our society.
#228
