Friday, August 13, 2004

the bs of db and ks

Is it just me? Or can i just say that the late Dhiren Bhagat was an A-class arsehole? A friend gifted me a book of DB's "collected" writings and I put it on the shelf. Just picked it up now. Bugger! The guy is a pontificating, holier-than-thou pen pusher! Don't get me wrong. When I was young (and perhaps silly) DB was like, a GOD! So I go into the book, looking for the stuff that might have made me confer god-like status on him...all i found was that DB, like many of his ilk, was struck by 'Indian columnistitis' and/or 'Indian writeritis.'
Most egregious was that he couldn't figure out whether Khushwant Singh was a terrible writer or a bloody genius. My view: But for Train to Pakistan, KS as well, is a bloody arse. He can't write to save his life! And all the Indian-press-pedagogy about him, is just that. DB and KS (I know that sounds awful) seem like two peas in a pod. Except KS outlived DB and soldiered on with the BS....
Oh yeah..the book also has a little chap. by DB (clearly {or maybe not} book was intended before DB died) titled "Why I am a Conservative," and it has NOTHING about why DB is a conservative.....just a lot of, erm, BOLLOCKS, really, that is begun with sentiments like ..I am not conservative because i studied at Oxford and Margie Thatcher is PM---.
Hello? then why? troll through it..you won't find why DB 'chooses' to call himself a C....
not to mention other really annoying chapters...erm..annoying to me, that is...gotta go back and read more (or puke more, depending on sensibility of chaps.).....

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