the media targeting middle-age tambram community is disgusting beyond belief. television and the print media have joined hands to convert the average(or collective?) IQ of the whole community to somewhere between that of a salt water gargle and clotrimazole powder.
imagine 2 hours of bhajans from 6 to 8, and an hour of puja on weekdays and three on weekends, mega serials and devotional magazines after dinner; and these ppl are 35-45 years old, not retired grannies and granddads. these ppl hardly think of anything else. when they meet other relatives, the talk is invariably on the which temple to visit next, or about the healing powers of some incarnation of lord shiva in some arbit village who specialises in injuries of the middle ear... i mean, come off it...
full credit to the media for enslaving a whole community and making money in the process.
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How presumptious of you to think this is specific to tam-brams! It's there all throughout Indian non-english media as far as I know. Newspapers Included.
BTW, is the ToI a newspaper anymore?
by a series of highly inter-related sequence of events, i am at home. the only home i have is a tambram one, and hence the presumptuous assumption....
i thot it was only this community that was doomed. happy to hear that the rest of india is not far ahead either. :)
btw ambar, thanks for mentioning the antropic principle. quite interesting, and quite silly.
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