Great Noam Chomsky
After watching all the stupid HBO/Star Movies stuff...I hit a good site today.
While wasting money past year on stupid CL, we got some good authors name to study...
After cool 8 months, I finally hit the site of Noam Chomsky and read one of his essays. It is very informative and equally boring much like what effect creativy guy (Edward De bono) or Arun Shourie has on me. Rajiv and Shahi would understand :).
But if you have time, then at least study one of his essays
(like Human rights) , favourable comments from Arundhati Roy (comments), and at least one critique on the guy. I remember Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati calling him a "leftist" (Arundhati is also a 'leftist' for Jagdish).
Happy Reading. I do plan to buy "necessary Illusions" book on the role of media in creating propoganda and public opinion some time.
2 comments:
Good finding pandu... went thru Arundhati's critic of the place I'm in... I can only say... Quite Informative.. I was not knowing the facts... will read more bout Chompsky...
But I can't discuss what I read here with anyone except for my Indian friends... :-)
I have started reading Necessary Illusions... its one of the obscurest topic..written in a difficult language and you really should have a backgroud to read it... it has five chapters in 139 pages and it has 5 appendix to each chapter that is of about 250 pages and another 50 pages for bibliography..
I managed to read 5 pages in 45 mins while riding max to office and preferred talking on phone while coming back.....let's see if I can finish it in 21 days... allotted to me from library..although I can get it reissued if there is no demand for it...
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