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it is a Pity

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It is a Pity

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The more things change, the more they remain the same—and nostalgia is no longer what it used to be.


Two-time, stop-gap prime minister Gulzari Lal Nanda‘s death in January 1998 didn’t get its due on the front pages of newspapers because, well, market forces had taken hold of the media in post-reforms India.


In a column in the Delhi tabloid Mail Today, the architect Gautam Bhatia writes:

“Some readers may have noticed that former prime minister Gulzari Lal Nanda’s death could not be covered because Colgate and Coke had both given full page ads that day.
“Editors went so far to request the Nanda family to postpone the death by a day, but Nanda, being an obstinate politician, carried on with his original plan; his death was a two-line obituary below an oversize Coke bottle.

Gandhi Assassination was not in Front Page

The bad news is Mahatma Gandhi‘s assassination in 1948 didn’t make it to the front pages of The Hindu either because “India’s national newspaper” only carried ads on page one in the heady days of pre-liberalisation India.


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We are a nation of unprincipled, greedy and corrupt individuals, who are ready to bribe god/s even to get things done. That is the truth. But we are trying since 1949 or even earlier - thanks to M.K. Gandhi - to dress up this as a country of highly principled achievers which will now, any time, shoot off to the stratosphere of economic, scientific and what not, super-powers.

Note: I expect quick retorts/rejoinders based on the so-called patriotism from predictable quarters.
 
India's future is bleak because of corrupt people as a whole who expect others to be honest and truthful whereas they themselves do not practise what the preach. Most of Indians are self-seekers and never care for others' welfare. This is the reason why our country had to suffer under various foreign hooligans and at present under politicians, scientists, administrators who are greedy and will not hesitate even sell the whole country for their own good.
 
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