[Reader-list] The Indian Media - article from Tehelka

[Punam Zutshi]

Thanks for the article and not only the perceptive but the analytically
powerful look at the media.
To exercise independent judgement is clearly a far higer mountain to climb
than settling for the celebration of  ' having arrived ' --- a heady mix of
consumer goods and a lifestyle that is 'cosmopolitan'.
I am intrigued by your attraction to the vibrant intellectual climate that
led you to settle in Delhi : what are the components of this vibrancy , my
ethnographer self is moved to ask.
Are you saying that there are enough people and institutions in Delhi that
sustain the life of the mind but not any/many that allow this to be part of
a public culture? Do you think the vibrancy reflects in some other
mode..say, of practice/s ?
Punam