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Cultural exchange
Recently,Alliance Francaise in Sector 36,Chandigarh,organised Bonjour India,a festival aimed at offering Indians an exposure of different aspects of France. Now,whether the Indian students who attended the festival learned the nuances of French culture or not,their French counterparts surely learnt many things about the culture of Punjab. In fact,an upcoming Punjabi singer even managed to hold a performance at the festival. It is difficult to fathom as to how he pulled it off but by the end of the festival,many French students were seen saying Balle Balle and Sat Sri Akal. Now we know why the world makes such a fuss about the cultural power of India.
Stray cattle
When the problem of growing number of animals straying into the city came up for discussion in a recent House Meet of the Municipal Corporation,a councillor quipped that the development in the city was so good that even the stray animals were attracted to it. Jokes apart,the city that claims to be the most well-planned town in India,is becoming a menagerie of stray animals. And the administrators are learning little from previous experiences. Not long ago,there was an abnormal increase in the incidents of road accidents at night due to stray cattle. But so obsessed are our elected representative and the concerned official with petty issues and mutual vendetta that they are unperturbed about the real issues affecting the city and its residents.
At a recent function organised in memory of eminent journalist late Prabhash Joshi,a senior scribe brought attention to the increasing commercialisation in the media industry. When I started my career two decades ago,the management used to say you take care of news and we shall fetch the advertisements. A decade later,he said,managements instructions changed to look after the news as well as advertisements. Today,in a lot of organisations,the mantra is get the advertisements,even if it means ignoring the news.
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