Re: [silk] Help parsing news article on caste

2006-07-08 Thread Ashok Hariharan
what a strange news story The editorial board is to blame for it, i think. The Hindu generally avoids anything that the board imagines to be controversial. For example: i read a news story once of an income tax raid on an actor's house in madras. The story mentioned everything except

Re: [silk] Help parsing news article on caste

2006-07-08 Thread sastry
On Sat July 8 2006 08:59, Thaths wrote: Actuall, I was looking for some background on the controversy. Nowhere in the article does one hear the reporter's voice of what the issue is about and why. This is pretty much what Naipaul wrote about news reporting in India. A vomiting out of events

Re: [silk] Help parsing news article on caste

2006-07-07 Thread sastry
On Sat July 8 2006 03:08, Thaths wrote: Why doesn't the article come out and say that the Dalits say that they are being kept out of the festival and the officials deny this? The article does say that, but I believe the issue itself may not be as simple and black and white as you have made it

Re: [silk] Help parsing news article on caste

2006-07-07 Thread Thaths
On 7/7/06, sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat July 8 2006 03:08, Thaths wrote: Why doesn't the article come out and say that the Dalits say that they are being kept out of the festival and the officials deny this? The article does say that, Actuall, I was looking for some background on