{"id":780,"date":"2005-08-01T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/780"},"modified":"2005-08-01T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T12:35:00","slug":"comedy-by-rediff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/comedy-by-rediff\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy by Rediff"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a classic piece on Rediff, titled God cannot be so cruel<\/em>, Archana Masih writes <\/a>about how no body cares about middle class. Ms.Masih writes,<\/p>\n

While promises are being to slumdwellers who lost their homes, the loss of the middle class Mumbaikar is being ignored.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let us ignore the typos and the grammatical lapses. After all she is human. She probably will edit the piece later and fix the embarrassing mistakes.<\/p>\n

The dance teacher lost 10 years of research work — over 200 audio cassettes with rare interviews that were submerged under 7 feet of water, printouts reduced to pulp and roles and roles of photographs that are now all stuck together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All right, that was a sad loss. But how does it prove that the middle class in Mumbai was (is being?) ignored? And when we are talking about close to 1000 people (it may increase) dead, shouldn’t one be happy just to be alive? Correct me if I am wrong.
Archana also writes,<\/p>\n

Like many others from the urban middle class, she doesn’t have housing insurance and does not expect any assistance from the government. Caught in a peculiar situation where their situation is better off than those living in shanty towns, it is the lower and middle class of Mumbai’s citizens that seem to be find themselves<\/strong> between the proverbial devil and the deep sea. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let us ignore the typos and the grammatical lapses again. I tried understanding what she was trying to say but I couldn’t. I don’t understand how this kind of writing slips through and gets published. I can live with a typo or a grammatical error Archana, but logic or the lack of it thereof is another thing. Do you have the numbers on how many ‘urban middle class’ people have housing\/personal insurance policies? What do you mean “Caught in a peculiar situation where their situation is better off than those living in shanty towns…”<\/em>? Huh? What is the purpose of this piece? Milking some emotion? Let Bollywood do that. Please, mighty please. That said, Rediff is providing helpful and important information and doing a great job. But why this then? God only knows. <\/p>\n

More MSM screw ups here<\/a>. Thanks to the bloggers, people do get real news. A couple of Collaborative Blogs, Mumbai Help<\/a> and Cloudburst<\/a>, are doing the honours. <\/p>\n

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In a classic piece on Rediff, titled God cannot be so cruel, Archana Masih writes about how no body cares about middle class. Ms.Masih writes, While promises are being to slumdwellers who lost their homes, the loss of the middle class Mumbaikar is being ignored. Let us ignore the typos and the grammatical lapses. 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