Jul 30, 2003 08:56 AM
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(Updated Jul 30, 2003 08:58 AM)
Straight from my heart..
Time magazine, is one of the most famous magazines. I used to be a avid reader of Time until a long time..But then the article about A.B.Vajpayee was published. Well, Vajpayee does drink, he has health problems, and is a bit old.. But then people wouldn't have elected him if he was so reckless and if he was unable to do his job.. One stupid writer thought a nation of one billion people (alright I know everyone didnt vote for him) are wrong and he alone is clever than than these third-world country people. I had respect for time for long time, but after the article was published I stopped reading time.. May be it is a good magazine for most of the readers out there, but I simply couldn't digest the fact that, a carelessly written stupid article was published in the magazine..
But then out indian counterparts are not far behind..
timesofindia.com and rediff.com are more of tabloids than news sites.
I guess it's a fashion to write against India.
Heres a part taken from a review (https://mouthshut.com/readreview/24144-1.html) by angel009 (https://mouthshut.com/user/angel009.html)
(May be we are talking about the same magazine)
It was very well written so thought to cite it here..
Last month, a famous American magazine carried a feature on the septuagenarian Indian prime Minister, Mr. AB Vajpayee.Their main concern was the wisdom of having such an unfit man at the pinnacle of power, with his finger poised over the nuclear button.Its all very fine to cite the “freedom of the press” and say that the magazine has a right to air its views, but in this case, I’m saddened to think that the general American public reading this article will have this image of a reckless, foolhardy Indian state, which ‘knoweth not what it does”.
I guess I will get a lot of ''NR'' for this review, but then I wanted to say how I felt.
:Sridhar
