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From: hemanth@amdcad.UUCP (Hemanth Kanekal)
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Subject: Re: India and the Media
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Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 17:27:04 EST
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> 
> I don't think the "Jewel in the Crown" can really mean anything to anybody
> who is not British.  Americans who form impressions of India from the
> series will be even farther removed from the India of today than the characters
> in the series were from the India of their time.  If Americans try to form
> impressions of the British, their impressions will be way off; never having
> been a colony (I know about George Washington, but they are kidding if they
> really say they were ever a "colony"), they have no way of taking into account
> the psychology of colonial rule, let alone the peculiarities of the Raj or the
> complexities of the relationship between Indians and the British.  To Indians,
> a detailed account of how the British thought and lived in the forties means
> a shrug of the shoulders.  To everyone except the British, it is a soap about 
> confused colonials, and little more.
> 
> I saw the report in Newsweek too.  The problem with American journalists is
> that they do that to everyone except Americans:  They, like the characters
> in the "Jewel in the Crown", live in a world they don't really understand.
> And like the characters in the series, they don't think they need to take 
> the trouble to understand.  Like British colonials, they make periodic forays
> into the alien world, and then return into the only environment they really 
> comprehend (usually none the wiser for the experience), to bring back with 
> them strange stuffed creatures and mythology.
> 
> There is an article in the latest Harper's by a Sovietologist who has a similar 
> complaint about the reporting in this country about Russia.  Besides the fact
> that the media tends to tow the government line, he says, the real problem is
> that journalists in this country are too lazy to read enough to find out the
> truth.  I think he has point there.



   Excellent comments on the Jewel in the Crown. Hope We get to see
   more of this.....

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