[Reader-list] A Suggestion for Arundhati

[Logos Theatre]

Dear Arundhati,
        As expected, you haven't responded to my mail in response to yours.
Perhaps you are too busy helping the arts by attending Bangalore Times Page
Three parties. Anyway, since you came forward to gave me some unsolicited
suggestions, I will take this opportunity to return the favour. Here is a
list of companies I have drawn up, that the IFA can approach for funding so
that it can keep up its exemplary service to the arts:


   1. Dow Chemicals
   2. Vedanta Aluminium (they'll perhaps fund an interesting academic
   initiative to 'document' tribal practices, especially of the Dongria Kondhs)
   3. Exxon
   4. The Salim Group, Indonesia (I'm sure they'll give you money to try and
   engage with the 'real' issues in Nandigram.)
   5. POSCO
   6. Enron
   7. Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited
   8. GCM Resources (google phoolbari)

I'm sure the money you manage to get from these corporations (who,
doubtless, will have faith in the work that IFA is doing for the arts) will
help you fund many, many more projects that 'study systemic issues' in this
or that branch of art and send big-brand name artists on their way to ever
more first world destinations. Much more importantly, it will keep those
international flight tickets flowing in for the selfless IFA employees who
subject themselves to the unspeakable horrors of visiting far-flung places
like Japan, Brazil, Moscow, Vienna, Washington, London and where not, all
for the sake of the arts in India.

Warm regards,
Arka


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