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The Pioneer > Online Edition : >> Alienating our own culture
- Balbir K Punj
- Over the last 10 days, English dailies and many leading vernacular newspapers in the country have been devoting columns after columns to pop star Michael Jackson who recently passed away. About a fortnight ago, sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan passed away in the US, a country he had migrated to some years ago. The Press here devoted just a few paragraphs to his demise. Even a memorial meeting that was organised in New Delhi in his remembrance and attended by several eminent artistes got desultory coverage. But on July 8, the same newspapers were giving prime space to Michael Jackson’s funeral.
- The contrast truly brings out how we Indians have become culturally decadent.
- Our education system has much to answer for this decadence among our young who blindly follow Western culture.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
The Pioneer > Online Edition : >> Alienating our own culture
