Posted by: Aadisht on: May 29, 2009
In the last post, I said that middle class voter apathy was a myth. In fact the problem is worse. Where India is concerned, the middle class is itself a myth, which is why I used the scare quotes. It’s neither middle, nor a class. Let’s look at ‘middle’ first. What Barkha Dutt and similar [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: May 11, 2009
It’s pretty much an article of faith in India that the educated middle class doesn’t vote. (Some recent blogposts and articles that touch on this: Sainath, The Acorn and Great Bong) But this election is beginning to shake up that assumption. Yes, the super-rich South Bombay had a 44% turnout rate, the lowest in Bombay. But [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: January 20, 2008
I saw the 2130 show at Rex on Friday night because I didn’t want to endure the traffic on the way home. It turned out to be well worth it. The hero of the movie is a cook who is on the run from a gangsta-rapper mafioso. He gives him the slip by impersonating a [...]