Thanks for keeping the war on Jug Suraiya

Jatin, i don't know how to thank you for bringing to my eyes one of the most valuable pieces of knowledge ever crafted in Indian Press. Shit, what did i write? sorry, that can be attributed to consciousness being held on momentary ransom by some, green, hallucinogenic substance--found in nature though. Okay, here goes. Jatin, i don't know how to thank you for bringing to my notice one of the most shameless, unapologetic pieces in support of free-market propaganda and corporate governance i have ever come across in the Indian Press. Its crass, rude and unimaginably insensitive. I must say i am amazed, truly. They say news media shape opinion,  manufacture consent and serve as the vigiante fourth-effin-estate (The last bit endorsed by  more idealists than Chomskians). 

Jug Suraiya, unashamedly supporting an economic system that is guided solely by the motive of profit maximisation, describes people supporting Socialism and Nationalisation as "doomsayers". Beautiful. He also calls the debt-ridden exploitative Social Darwinist societies and economies of the West as having reached "great heights". Great imperialist, colonising, expansionist societies that developed at the cost of the un-development of their colonies. Great societies that are responsible for each and every single problem faced by the contemporary global village. 

The worst, and also the funniest, thing about this article is that Suraiya is trying to make us all  believe in the good samaritanism inherent, by default, in capitalism; or trying to convince us how liberating full-blown liberalism is. Sorry sir, but before your very enlightening article could save us, we kind of  got indoctrinated by a belief system that strives to achieve liberty by 'propagating' equal redistribution of wealth through state-intervention as opposed to the concentration of it in a few hands through free-market fundamentalism. Bad, no?

And he goes to great lengths to substantiate this point by constantly harping on the unparalelled success of Grameen Bank in bailing out the ailing common man through the generation of tough, gutsy, immune to economic crises--micro credit. How romantic. But hey, what did Grameen Bank succeed in? Oh, yes, it succeeded in taking capitalism beyond capitalism; beyond urban industrial consumerist societies to agrarian rural ones; it succeeded in taking capitalism from Big capital intensive industries and corporations to the common man, the farmer; it succeeded in taking control of food production; in making the helpless farmer give away his/her land for ecologically inconsistent, cash farming because the state simply didn't care. It succeeded in making way for Monsanto (The Monsanto-Grameen bank initiative. http://www.greens.org/s-r/17/17-15.html).

And thats not all. He saves the best for the last--by appealing, giving out the ultimate call to complete corporate governance--hoping, almost in teenage dreaminess, of corporate India contesting the next General Elections by forming a secular, economically liberal political party. Whoa, you really took it far sir. 

And then, he ends by dreaming, concealing his dreadful vision as the heart-warming naivete of a teenager, of a beautiful alliance being formed between the common man (I don't know why did he leave out the women) and India Inc.Hey, i remember someone talking about co-production someday (Professor Nigel Thrift, talked of co-production  as a new, smarter, more evolved form of capitalism, in his lecture on "The new forms of capitalism")

Seems like Modi, Advani, the BJP, the entire Hindutva spectrum AND the UPA  (led by the Chicago School slave economist Dr. Manmohan Singh as the Prime Minister )with its desperation to initiate more 'reforms' not enough to satiate the needs of the capitalists of our country. 

Ab aur kya kahein yaar...ee toh saala parliament ko hee privatise karne ka baat kar diya....!!

Mahim