Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Just over a month ago, I wrote about Prof C N R Rao’s take on what ails Bangalore. A respected academician and an adviser to the Prime Minister of India, I considered Prof Rao’s opinion to be extremely misguided and wrong. He is at the very least at the top of the heap of educated Indians and should know better, I thought. Worrisome though it is that someone as accomplished as him is so starkly mistaken, what is more distressing is that lower down the pyramid of minds, you find it occupied by minds that are equally if not more confused. A comment from a young lady to a blog post reads:
lol…that was funny wat all mr rao has to say….with leaders like him d country sure is doomed!
its IT whoz saving us!
I don’t know which is more terrible: Dr CNR Rao’s idiotic rant or the response by an “educated” person. She does not even bother to use standard spelling. Perhaps she does not know, or perhaps she does not care.
What matters is that she does not know that IT is not what’s saving the country or what can save the country. If she is the end product of our Indian education system, then it is failing and failing miserably. Not only does she not know the facts or even appears to care for facts, but she is unable to reason.
The country sure is doomed. She better look into the mirror one of these days to understand the real reasons.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
This linguistic degeneration is not restricted to India. Sadly, it has spread virally across the globe. Personally, I find such text quite irreverent.
Brilliant Atanu !
I have to narrate something very funny in this connection.
On my visit to a Temple, a highly qualified Vedic scholar came up and said:
” You are like a daughter to me. This IT has come and vitiated everything in this world. I want to start a project for which I request you to donate money. Whereby, I will transfer all that I know about Vedas to the computer. So that anyone wanting to know about Vedas can download and benefit”
Thank you immensely for coming out with this post .As , now and then I would get swayed with such onslaught of anti IT opinions.
Someone said ” Bill Gates with his knowledge and money is making people smarter whereas the charlatan gurus and half baked scholars with their mandatory ‘ charities & donations ‘ industry are churning out idiots”.
I owe you special thanks for posting C N R Rao’s plaintive wailing. It tickles me so much. Even better than the menacing mail from art of living followers.
His “..there was more science here than anywhere else in India….” tingles me. A Professor of Indian Institute of Science(Bangalore) told me very emphatically:
” Not a single kannadiga has ever qualified himself to even gain admission into our institute. For pure science it has been consistently Bengalis mostly from Jadavpur University who have been coming here”. He also trashed the much hyped Abdul Kalam and said they were justified in denying him a post that he wanted .
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