Thursday, March 20, 2014

Mukul Kesavan's 'Rhetoric Of The Times' is a must read

 It was the op-ed in yesterday's The Telegraph, Calcutta (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140320/jsp/opinion/story_18095202.jsp#.Uyuv__mSwX8).

He has analysed the way Hindi, which is fast becoming the lingua franca, is being used by the three in-the-eye rivals: Narendra Modi's is the 'declamatory Hindi favored by the sangh parivar,' Arvind Kejriwal's ' is 'transactional, colloquial and peppered with basic English words,' and Rahul Gandhi's is 'atrocious.'

He has also critiqued the kind of speeches given by them.

Helps us see where we are heading...