We have become a society in which trivial non-issues are hyped to become issues of import....news channels and media contribute significantly to this since real issues have stopped being relevant...mind boggling corruption, governmental apathy to real probles facing people...like water, transport, law and order....are just not relevant anymore...it is beyond anybody to even think about this leave alone talk about them...hence trivial non-issues are hyped...
A party leader, with no real following or demonstrated capability writes a book on Jinnah...we are told that he praises Jinnah and says he is not responsible for the partition of India. And we are also told that the author says Jinnah was secular (whatever that means). How ihave become s this important 60 years after the event, when Pakistan is a reality and a nusiance. Whether Jinnah was responsbile or someone else was does not make any difference. But the book has created such a ruckus, the author is dismissed from the party and possibly he is laughing all the way to the bank.
Chennai or Madras celebrated 370 years of its founding. Cities are taking great pride in celebrating their founding...does not matter that they have become vast unorganized slums with most people lacking basic amenities. It has been determined that sometime in August 370 years ago an englishman got a concession to start trading operations on a small piece of land on the beach. This is supposed to have been the beginning of Chennai. Does not matter that places like Mylapore, Thiruvottiyur, Thiruvanmiyur all coastal villages and now integrated into Chennai have a long history and existed before the englishman landed. For us history starts only when the english landed...
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