Shashwati's Blog » Uncategorized http://blog.shashwati.com Shashwati Talukdar's Musings Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:20:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 The note I sent the idiot journalist about the bed of nails story http://blog.shashwati.com/2009/11/26/the-note-i-sent-the-idiot-journalist-about-the-bed-of-nails-story-httpwww-nytimes-com20091125worldeurope25stockholm-html/ http://blog.shashwati.com/2009/11/26/the-note-i-sent-the-idiot-journalist-about-the-bed-of-nails-story-httpwww-nytimes-com20091125worldeurope25stockholm-html/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:59:05 +0000 admin http://blog.shashwati.com/2009/11/26/the-note-i-sent-the-idiot-journalist-about-the-bed-of-nails-story-httpwww-nytimes-com20091125worldeurope25stockholm-html/ Dude,

I can’t even begin to tell you about all that is wrong with the Hindu references in your article. For starters, there is no such thing as a Hindu Fakir (its an Orientalist Colonial invention) and Shakti iliterally means energy, not fertility (except in  the concupiscent Western imaginarium).  Happy to send you a reading list in the interest of journalistic accuracy.

cheers

A regular reader of this miserable rag

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