Comments on: This “Year of India” (2): Rana Dasgupta http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-2-rana-dasgupta/ Christopher Lydon in conversation on arts, ideas and politics Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Potter http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-2-rana-dasgupta/comment-page-1/#comment-165338 Potter Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:32:42 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=4835#comment-165338 I am sucked into your series on India, fascinated and feeling like Ruth a bit ( wither thou goest)..... trying to imagine what a $100,000,000 house looks like... and how it is possible to live in one with poverty underneath one's nose "unchecked by conscience". Does this qualify as the necessary tolerance that we speak of? I have no doubt that Indians can "do us" better than we do ourselves but that is a frightening thought. The world to come suddenly seems a little bit more frightening. I am sucked into your series on India, fascinated and feeling like Ruth a bit ( wither thou goest)….. trying to imagine what a $100,000,000 house looks like… and how it is possible to live in one with poverty underneath one’s nose “unchecked by conscience”. Does this qualify as the necessary tolerance that we speak of? I have no doubt that Indians can “do us” better than we do ourselves but that is a frightening thought. The world to come suddenly seems a little bit more frightening.

]]> By: Nusrat http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-2-rana-dasgupta/comment-page-1/#comment-165305 Nusrat Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:53:44 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=4835#comment-165305 mr.mathew - you must live in the west? mr.mathew – you must live in the west?

]]> By: George Mathew http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-2-rana-dasgupta/comment-page-1/#comment-165294 George Mathew Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:18:30 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=4835#comment-165294 Thank you Chris for bringing these latter day Desi prophets, Amitav Ghosh first and now, Rana Dasgupta who have the nerve and the balls to point their pens at the seamy underbelly of INCREDIBLE INDIA Inc. to speak on Radio Open Source and to speak candidly about their worries and concerns about the unthinking hype around INDIA RISING. It is terrifying and true that many in middleclass consumer India do actually think that Lee Kuan Yew is even a plausible model for anything but a selling of a nation's soul in exchange for a certain amount of repetitious infrastructure. Unlike your guest, I am not sure that India's much vaunted chaos will preserve the center of the spirituality bequeathed by Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Radhakrishnan to a young country that is even as we speak, impatient for the lifestyles of Wellesley and Skokie. Gratefully, George Mathew Thank you Chris for bringing these latter day Desi prophets, Amitav Ghosh first and now, Rana Dasgupta who have the nerve and the balls to point their pens at the seamy underbelly of INCREDIBLE INDIA Inc. to speak on Radio Open Source and to speak candidly about their worries and concerns about the unthinking hype around INDIA RISING. It is terrifying and true that many in middleclass consumer India do actually think that Lee Kuan Yew is even a plausible model for anything but a selling of a nation’s soul in exchange for a certain amount of repetitious infrastructure. Unlike your guest, I am not sure that India’s much vaunted chaos will preserve the center of the spirituality bequeathed by Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Radhakrishnan to a young country that is even as we speak, impatient for the lifestyles of Wellesley and Skokie.

Gratefully,
George Mathew

]]> By: chris http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-2-rana-dasgupta/comment-page-1/#comment-165291 chris Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:35:49 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=4835#comment-165291 Dear Oguz: Problem solved, at least addressed. Near the bottom of the left-hand column, you should now find the RSS Podcast button, in orange and gray. Let me know if it works -- or doesn't. Thanks for provoking us! Chris Lydon Dear Oguz: Problem solved, at least addressed. Near the bottom of the left-hand column, you should now find the RSS Podcast button, in orange and gray. Let me know if it works — or doesn’t. Thanks for provoking us! Chris Lydon

]]> By: Oguz Yetkin http://www.radioopensource.org/this-year-of-india-2-rana-dasgupta/comment-page-1/#comment-165290 Oguz Yetkin Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:34:14 +0000 http://www.radioopensource.org/?p=4835#comment-165290 Hi Chris, I have been a fan of your show since 2006, and I appreciate the variety of opinions and guests that you have on the program. I have one (potentially off-topic) request: Please bring back direct links to the MP3s on your podcasts! Call me a luddite, but there's nothing that feels more "Open Source" than real mp3s that you can download, sort, and transfer to various devices, etc. without the restriction of any additional software. Regards, Oguz Hi Chris,

I have been a fan of your show since 2006, and I appreciate the variety of opinions and guests that you have on the program. I have one (potentially off-topic) request: Please bring back direct links to the MP3s on your podcasts! Call me a luddite, but there’s nothing that feels more “Open Source” than real mp3s that you can download, sort, and transfer to various devices, etc. without the restriction of any additional software.

Regards,

Oguz

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