WOULD IT WERE !

WOULD IT WERE !

Our intellectual culture is very poor. People are merely attracted by photographs that append posts and care not to read their content. Most are as well attracted by sensationalism in posts that either reek of controversy or calumny. Perhaps common culture has always been thus and it is only the advent of mass journalism on social media that has come to highlight it. But when highly educated people are lazy enough to post emojis by way of comment instead of putting in a word of two it becomes a case of a pernicious precipitation of culture. They ought to be sensitive enough that upon them as well depends the future of our country's culture, not merely on some overworked writers who pour in heart and soul to arrest the decline. Would it were that they had been a trifle more dedicated to the cause!

Written by Sugata Bose