A rash of proclamations

March 22, 2018 10:04

"There is much to commend about India's newspapers that most outsiders find 'lively'. Alas, the well-researched celebration of past lives, written in lively prose, isn't one of the known attributes of the Indian media. At one time, The Statesman used to possess a 'morgue' - the colloquial term for a room where the Obituaries Editor was based. This was a relic from the days the newspaper was suitably grand and British-controlled. With indigenization, the 'morgue' fell into disuse and was subsequently junked. Reports of deaths of yesterday's famous, or even interesting, people resemble a potted biodata - like the ones the presiding officer reads out in Parliament on the death of an MP or a former member of the House. The personality of the departed is subsumed in a lifeless list of what school and college he attended and which offices he occupied."

Swapan Dasgupta on the tendency to overstate trends. Read the column here

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