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Thanks for the memories, king, including your iconic concert with Shaan at Narsee Monjee College's fest 'Umang' in 2002-03 and for giving us a better time capsule of 90s Indian cricket archives than the BCCI or ICC with your 1999 World Cup song.
Thanks for the memories, king, including your iconic concert with Shaan at Narsee Monjee College's fest 'Umang' in 2002-03 and for giving us a better time capsule of 90s Indian cricket archives than the BCCI or ICC with your 1999 World Cup song.
They did indeed sing the songs of an aspirational and ascendant India.
Which is exactly why the R.Guhas and other such doyens of good taste in the Indo-Anglian comprador industry used to critique songs such as these as being "primitive" and "jingoistic".
Which is exactly why the R.Guhas and other such doyens of good taste in the Indo-Anglian comprador industry used to critique songs such as these as being "primitive" and "jingoistic".
A fascinating sociological phenomenon, how the Anglophile comprador class went from loving cricket as Britain's 'gentleman's game' to despising it within a generation, just because the aspirational masses related to it more, as India began to win more.
Take Adiga and Arundhati:
Take Adiga and Arundhati:
This 2009 essay on Delhi society encapsulated the socio-economic anxieties these Anglophile compradors experienced in the post-liberalised 🇮🇳 economy of the 1990s and 2000s, as they found small town businessmen suddenly out-earning and out-spending them.
granta.com
granta.com
"[They see] themselves as harried and besieged.
They still enjoy many privileges, but as time goes on they see their values and sensibilities disappearing from the media and the streets, and they are faced with the troubling realization that they no longer rule this society..."
They still enjoy many privileges, but as time goes on they see their values and sensibilities disappearing from the media and the streets, and they are faced with the troubling realization that they no longer rule this society..."
!["[They see] themselves as harried and besieged.
They still enjoy many privileges, but as time goes...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FUKIOKBWYAMovJ9.png)
"I can’t stay the whole year in Delhi. It’s backward.
You take your life in your hands on the roads,you see the kind of people there are.
It’s been taken over by Hindi-speakers & loud Punjabi festivals like Karwa Chauth that noone used to make a fuss about twenty years back."🤡
You take your life in your hands on the roads,you see the kind of people there are.
It’s been taken over by Hindi-speakers & loud Punjabi festivals like Karwa Chauth that noone used to make a fuss about twenty years back."🤡
Saif has a healthy contempt for Delhi’s upstarts:
"Oh my God, the nouveaux riches. They're horrible. The only thing those guys have that’s nice is their cars. The nicest cars pull up and the most horrible people get out. Horrible bodies,horrible teeth,horrible voice modulation."
"Oh my God, the nouveaux riches. They're horrible. The only thing those guys have that’s nice is their cars. The nicest cars pull up and the most horrible people get out. Horrible bodies,horrible teeth,horrible voice modulation."
"These people may come from smaller cities and they may speak only broken English.
But they are skilled in the realm of opportunity and profit, at home in the booming world of connections, bribes, violence – that sends their anglicized peers running for the nearest cappuccino."
But they are skilled in the realm of opportunity and profit, at home in the booming world of connections, bribes, violence – that sends their anglicized peers running for the nearest cappuccino."
"If people like Tarun and Anurag refer back so nostalgically to the socialist period it’s because, no matter how hypocritical it was, the socialist regime at least took the trouble to legitimise itself in terms they could recognise."
So many gems, this is comedy gold.
😂😂😂
So many gems, this is comedy gold.
😂😂😂
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