| While I liked
Indian classical music, they liked Western classical music or even rock and roll, if they
were younger in age. Yet more surprisingly, I discovered that the same Westernized
and anti-Hindu attitudes were common in the English language press of Indian, which often
appeared more appropriately the press of a foreign or no-Hindu country than that of a land
where over eighty percent of the people are Hindus (the vernacular press is better I might
add but still reflects the same trends). The
English language press of India appears merely as an Indian version of the Western news
media, with the same basic types of news and views, only with a more leftist political
orientation. There was little of anything in them of Hindu spirituality or little positive
said about Hindu culture. |
