Posts Tagged ‘Alienation’

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    Outsider and other random thoughts
    It’s remarkable that I turned out to be an optimist in my later life. To help you understand how early the cynic in me had taken roots let me take you back almost twenty years. The daily routine at my school required one of the students to read out a five minute capsule of news at the school assembly in the morning. This meant that the hapless student had to badger...
    by Subrat at March 7th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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    Dev.D: Desi Alienation
    As part of the rites of passage in an engineering school in India, I read ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ in the mid-90s. As had (and I realized this later) an entire generation done before me possibly in the same rooms that I occupied. And very reassuringly, I found out a decade later, Holden Caulfield had held his ground in those rooms against the onslaught of a...
    by Subrat at February 7th, 2009 at 07:02 pm
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    The Answer Is ‘Alienation’
    Two recent obits brought back a question that I often get asked outside of India – “why does Hindi cinema continue to purvey the same formula with minimal changes to its audience and why does the audience not tire of it?” It’s a question asked on PFC on many occasions. The answer is….Wait. May be I am getting ahead of myself. First the obits: Albert Hofmann,...
    by Subrat at May 23rd, 2008 at 04:05 am
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