Sunday, April 18, 2010

Indrajit Hazra's Crap in Hindustan Times

What is one of the main reasons that always keep The Times of India ahead of its rival Hindustan Times? Simple. Every article that you will find in Times of India (TOI) has a basic quality, a standard. On the other hand in Hindustan Times (HT) you will often come across articles that are nothing but craps.

One such latest crap that I came across other day was the article "End with a Bong, not a whimper" (link - http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/columnscricket/End-with-a-Bong-not-a-whimper/Article1-531387.aspx) by Indrajit Hazra, a funny looking man with a funny face that only his mother can love.

In that article this guy has discussed IPL, and has actually focused on KKR's poor performance in the same. And while doing so, he has completely focused on criticizing Ganguly, as a player and captain.

He certainly has the right to criticize Ganguly. After all it is true that KKR has failed in the IPL, and everybody has the right to criticize the hapless captain of the team.

But what was disgusting was that while criticizing Ganguly and his performance, this audacious (and seemingly uncultured) person has unnecessarily focused on Ganguly’s ethnicity (i.e. his Bengali ethnicity), and has also shown (albeit indirectly) lack of disrespect for the Bengali community as a whole.

I post some samples here –

First, the heading – “End with a Bong, not a whimper”

Second – “I don’t see why I can’t say a few cathartic words in response to the post-defeat outbursts of the Bengali man’s dream of a Bengali man: KKR skipper Dada Moany.”

Third – “Not with a bang, but a frustrated Bong who says he could have won Shah Rukh Khan the tournament if he had ten more…..”

Just a look at these samples can make one understand how the person – in the garb of criticizing Ganguly – has actually tried to poke a fun at the Bengali community. As I said that every person has the right to criticize anybody, be it Ganguly or anybody else. But while doing so there should be no attempt to show any disrespect to his community. That is an extreme level of impudence that can be expected only from an ill-bred guy like this Indrajit Hazra. That will immediately give a communal colour to that discussion, which is bound to make people from that community to be emotional. It is for this reason that Bengalis get so emotional when people criticize Ganguly, as we find them that his critics do not perceive him merely as an Indian cricketer, but as a “Bengali cricketer”.


At the end of the article (read crap) Hazra has expressed his hope that Ganguly will not start tweeting. I will love to tell Hazra that if we can bear the burden of Hazra’s so-called articles, then we can certainly bear with Ganguly’s tweets.

God knows what type of family this person has come from, that he can so unabashedly make such cheap remarks to win some cheap claps from some equally uncultured people. It is not his fault that he is so uncultured. The problem actually lies with his blood.

12 comments:

Joan Santani said...

he poked fun at ganguli and u inferred that he is insulting the whole bengali population, .
Dont u know that inderjit hazra himself is a bengali and he loves his culture and the people.

But i am sorry to say that what u are trying to say against him, is in fact done by you when u blame his blood.
Do you have any idea of the intellect of Mr inderjit hazra.
He is highly respectable journalist and novelist who has written three penguin published books.
It's the bad luck of times of india that they dont have such journos.

Can u recall one good journo of TOI.
But HT has plenty of them

indy, neelesh misra, jayantha jacob, vinod sharma, vir sanghvi, kukum chadha, george varghese and many many others....

Ashok Rai said...

I don't see you as a very cultured person yourself. May be Indrajit Hazra is uncultured, but i as a cultured person wouldn't dare to bring their parents and family here.

Unknown said...

nice try Mr. Basu ....:P
FYI - this crap writer is as bengali as u r !!

p.s.- if this din;t help u with ur war on HT, try writin one on Khushwant Singh, bloody he's always poking fun at sardars in his jokes .. :P

Puneet said...

Totally agree - Hazra is a terrible writer and comes across as a total idiot.

Anonymous said...

The ending seemed like some kind of misled attempt at irony, but really you do just come across as ignorant and bellicose, and as for your entire argument (or lack thereof), it is completely bereft of grist. I suggest you go back to writing your feelings down in a journal so as not to sound stupid to others.

Anonymous said...

The ending seemed like some kind of misled attempt at irony, but really you do just come across as ignorant and bellicose, and as for your entire argument (or lack thereof), it is completely bereft of grist. I suggest you go back to writing your feelings down in a journal so as not to sound stupid to others.

Raja Basu said...

@Anonymous

U r so unsure about the quality of ur comment that u have not even dared to mention ur name. And still u had the over enthusiasm to post it twice. LOL.

I will abstain from posting any response as such to ur so called comment, because honestly I do not find it worthy of any respnse in the first place. While a couple of persons criticized me for the post, they all maintained a certain standard which made me think over their logic. But urs was simply a gibberish reflecting nothing except ur stupidity.

As far as ur suggestion for putting my writings in journal and not in blog or Internet, I will like to tell u that my blog postings r not meant for morons like u in the first place. If u do not like my blog, just stay away from reading it. Has anyone forced u to read it?

Anonymous said...

RAJA BASU,Why dont you just shut up and stop professing the morality and alikes...Dude get a life...You seem to be disturbed..LOL!

democraticsentiment said...

"If u do not like my blog, just stay away from reading it. Has anyone forced u to read it?" if this is the whole argument, then the same goes for your reading if Hazra's column. nobody forced YOU to read his column, but if you have a right to your opinion made public, then doesn't everyone else also have the right to comment on your writing, no matter how stupid or wise they sound?

Anonymous said...

Raja Basu,you are undisputedly disturbed...You need a break..! :)
Raja Babu,i mean Raja Basu please stop hankering around... Doesnt suit you anymore!!!!

Anonymous said...

I don't agree with you at all and the quality of your writing and opinion make me feel that ill bred is a term that more accurately describes you .And as far is the TOI vs. HT debate is concerned,TOI is definitely worse off.

Babu Moshai said...

raja - my condolences. The bong era is over. bongs are now fucked up. bong land is fucked up and the only place you're going is down down down