Of Politicians and Puppies
“The analogy of the car and the dog makes the riot sound like an accident when it was as much a designer event as Modi’s career …….” This sentence made its way into the consciousness like few others have in recent times, for a simple reason -- the realization that kudos is due to a professional for actually facing reality, when seasoned writers seem to have been taken in by rhetoric not backed by reality. Or perhaps ……. ? Recent weeks have seen a … call it, trumpeted campaign, media overhype, infotainment, adverpleading or whatever new name may be coined for what passes for the long playing comments seen on news and edit pages. Is India doomed to be drowned in media hype? Or are, hopefully, our masses wide awake and able to read between the lines? Especially our newly minted young voters? Is history all that old a lesson to be so easily forgotten? Since Time Immemorial, writers, poets, bards have been paid to sing paeans to the ruling deity or king, attributin