tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150516653037581243.post5157021917049420617..comments2023-11-20T10:01:45.707+05:30Comments on रेघ: 'न्यूयॉर्कर' : आतूनUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150516653037581243.post-39690749123486340732012-12-31T17:09:30.102+05:302012-12-31T17:09:30.102+05:30You are right.You are right.अवधूत डोंगरेhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584335462907094516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150516653037581243.post-58534624381972423142012-12-31T11:17:41.617+05:302012-12-31T11:17:41.617+05:30Thanks Aniruddha for these elaborate comments. I w...Thanks Aniruddha for these elaborate comments. I wanted to post here Ramachandra Guha's piece on EPW that is published in December issue of Caravan, but I have not yet got the response and it won't probably come.<br />It is gratifying that you feel Regh is your home too. It should actually become home for many more people. We can publish your commentary as a different post.<br />I usually try to post on Regh something that can be and should be read in the context of what is happening in the shallow world of Marathi media. Here the context is a bit simplified : A weekly magazine, that has a fact-ckecking department which Marathi magazines probably never had and can never have, has a subscribed readership of a million (to go by their statistics). It believes in narrative journalism, which Marathi world had experienced a bit in Manoos or some other publications may be. I found their involvement in bringing out a magazine genuine and that does not exist at all in Marathi. Of course that doesn't mean we should go overboard while praising New Yorker. Your points are valid and you have seen much more issues of New Yorker (and any other magazine) than I have seen, so in many ways your observations are more accurate. I'm not saying this out of mere courtesy.<br />Let us hope that some day we will have a post by Noam Chomsky on Regh :) Is it too much?<br />Thanks again for these comments. Happy new year to you too. अवधूत डोंगरेhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07584335462907094516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150516653037581243.post-26601310257093215092012-12-31T10:31:18.188+05:302012-12-31T10:31:18.188+05:30But there were some exceptions to this the way mag...But there were some exceptions to this the way magazine has been edited over the years. The magazine has had history of 'in-house radicals'.<br /><br />"The career of Françoise Mouly, who has served as art editor for The New Yorker since 1993, provides a latter-day example of the magazine’s habit of hiring in-house radicals. Mouly first came to prominence as the founder and co-editor, with her husband Art Spiegelman, of Raw, the key publication of the alternative comics revival of the 1980s. In 11 issues from 1980 to 1991, Mouly and Spiegelman brought to the insular and proudly philistine world of comics the stringent values of avant-garde art, including the idea that comics could be as fruitful a field for formalist experimentation as modern painting. Aside from serializing Spiegelman’s groundbreaking graphic memoir Maus, Raw also showcased the early work of an array of talents that have continued to dominate comics, illustration and graphic design, including Charles Burns, Drew Friedman, Kaz, Ben Katchor, and Chris Ware. Politically, the gritty, punk-inflected imagery that dominated Raw stood as a rebuke to the dominant Reagan-era aesthetic of complacent visual nostalgia."<br /><br />I am not saying the magazine should have been all that its critics say it is not but my problem starts when people start heaping praise on it that goes beyond it deserves.<br /><br />I have read their piece on The Times. It is entertaining but there is almost nothing new there that tells you about the state of Indian media that most of us did not know. I don't want to know personal lives of Jain brothers even one bit. <br /><br />Today in India we have gigantic military–industrial-media-cricket complex. And to understand that you have to turn to some one like Gore Vidal or Noam Chomsky or Arundhati Roy or Economic & Political Weekly by putting some filters on them.Aniruddha G. Kulkarnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246236261997672943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150516653037581243.post-57862177442817726342012-12-31T09:27:10.356+05:302012-12-31T09:27:10.356+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.Aniruddha G. Kulkarnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246236261997672943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150516653037581243.post-71943414384059704542012-12-31T09:26:31.272+05:302012-12-31T09:26:31.272+05:30Ek Regh,
Happy 2013 to you!
Good to see this but...<br /><br />Ek Regh,<br /><br />Happy 2013 to you!<br /><br />Good to see this but The New Yorker is overrated. Not as much as The Economist but quite a bit. <br /><br />I may probably publish a post on this but since I consider this too as my 'home', I let go myself! <br /><br />I give a couple of examples.<br /><br />John Updike has said bout the magazine:<br /><br />”(During the fourth decade of The New Yorker 1955-1964) the foremost domestic issue of the time was the struggle of the black minority for civil rights, yet people of color are almost totally absent from these cartoons...<br /><br />...the tumultuous year 1968 — a time of assassinations, street protests, and international turmoil — was marked by New Yorker covers that showed<br /><br />A world at peace with itself, of blooming trees and sleeping dogs, of students studying in libraries and voters lining up in docile multitudes at the democracy’s gigantic voting booth […] It is almost as if, during these troubled and contentious Sixties and Seventies, The New Yorker protested, on its covers, by means of withdrawal.”<br /><br />Read an entry related to this on my blog here http://searchingforlaugh.blogspot.in/2007/09/which-colour-band-aids-for-dalits.html<br /><br />What a miss! <br /><br />Similar to not talking about the dalits in this country from 1955-64. I admire historian the late T S Shejwalkar so much but he does not even mention Dr. Ambedkar- not just a great leader but also historian/ essayist- in all that I have read written by him. <br /><br />In my eyes, greatness eludes Shejwalkar because of that omission. <br /><br />Also see my another post http://searchingforlaugh.blogspot.in/2012/07/climbing-podium-to-start-joyous-riots.html that has cover of the magazine dated August 1936.<br /><br />Wasn't 1936 summer Olympics all about the late Mr. Jesse Owens, probably the greatest sportsperson ever? It certainly was for me and yet there is no black figure among the athletes.<br /><br />David Wallechinsky says in "The Complete Book of the Olympics", in an older edition that I have, that Mr. Owens was 'insulted' more by the then American President than Hitler. Didn't even the legendary magazine do the same? <br /><br />Jeet Heer writes: <br /><br />"In a 1937 essay in the Partisan Review, Dwight Macdonald lamented that the typical New Yorker writer “has given up the struggle to make sense out of a world which daily grows more complicated. His stock of data is strictly limited to the inconsequential.” A decade later, another Partisan Review stalwart, Robert Warshow, pushed Macdonald’s argument a step further by arguing that The New Yorker at its best provides the intelligent and cultured undergraduate with the most comfortable and least compromising attitude he can assume toward capitalist society without being forced into actual conflict. It rejects the vulgarity and inhumanity of the public world of politics and business and provincial morality, and sets up in opposition to this a private and pseudo-aristocratic world of good humor, intelligence, and good taste." <br /><br />(continued on next page)Aniruddha G. Kulkarnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246236261997672943noreply@blogger.com