{"id":3815,"date":"2011-08-27T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2011-08-27T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T03:44:00","slug":"arindam-chaudhuri-and-200-million-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/arindam-chaudhuri-and-200-million-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"Arindam Chaudhuri (and 200 Million Murders)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is truly an August month in the history of Indian WTFness. Check out this insane speech by Arindam Chaudhuri in support of Anna Hazare:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:560px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL__w3umvEYFVQ\"><div id=\"lyte__w3umvEYFVQ\" data-src=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F_w3umvEYFVQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_w3umvEYFVQ\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"wrap-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F_w3umvEYFVQ%2F0.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Arindam Chaudhuri (and 200 Million Murders)\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"295\" \/><\/span><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:560px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Humaare desh mein kuchh do so million log hai jo chaalis saal ke umad se pehle mar jaate hai, aur isi liye hum jaise log sattar-assi saal jeete hai. Hum sattar-assi saal isliye jeete hai kyunki hum apne desh ke kuchh do so million logo ko chaalis saal se pehle maar daalte hai.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(There are some two hundred million people in our country who die before the age of 40, and this is why people like us live to the age of 70-80. People like us live to the age of 70-80 because we murder some two hundred million people of our country before the age of 40.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean, this is beyond priceless. It&#8217;s also beyond parody, for that matter&#8212;when life itself serves up such absurdities, what&#8217;s a satirist to do? Just watch in awe, that&#8217;s what.<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *<\/p>\n<p>And check out the shot in the middle when the camera zooms in towards Anna&#8217;s impassive face. I can almost hear the guy thinking, <i>&#8216;Who&#8217;s that clown with the oiled ponytail? I haven&#8217;t eaten for so many days, and I have to put up with this shit? Bring me some poha and let&#8217;s call it off already.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That would be an <a href=\"\/annas-song\/\" title=\"Anna's Song -- Amit Varma\">an excellent idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already read it, make sure you go through Siddhartha Deb&#8217;s wonderful feature on Chaudhuri, <a href=\"http:\/\/static.ow.ly\/docs\/Gatsby%20in%20New%20Delhi_gHc.pdf\" title=\"'Gatsby in New Delhi'\">&#8216;Gatsby in New Delhi&#8217;<\/a> (pdf link). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caravanmagazine.in\/Story\/1001\/IIPM-s-Rs500-million-lawsuit-against--em-The-Caravan--em-.html\" title=\"Chaudhuri's already gone to court\">Chaudhuri&#8217;s already gone to court<\/a> over it, as you might expect from <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/question-of-principles.html\" title=\"A Question of Principles -- Amit Varma\">his past shenanigans<\/a>.&nbsp; Such it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is truly an August month in the history of Indian WTFness. Check out this insane speech by Arindam Chaudhuri in support of Anna Hazare:<\/p>\n<p>[embedded video]<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Humaare desh mein kuchh do so million log hai jo chaalis saal ke umad se pehle mar jaate hai, aur isi liye hum jaise log sattar-assi saal jeete hai. Hum sattar-assi saal isliye jeete hai kyunki hum apne desh ke kuchh do so million logo ko chaalis saal se pehle maar daalte hai.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(There are some two hundred million people in our country who die before the age of 40, and this is why people like us live to the age of 70-80. People like us live to the age of 70-80 because we <i>murder<\/i> some two hundred million people of our country before the age of 40.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean, this is beyond priceless. It&#8217;s also beyond parody, for that matter&#8212;when life itself serves up such absurdities, what&#8217;s a satirist to do? Just watch in awe, that&#8217;s what.<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *<\/p>\n<p>And check out the shot in the middle when the camera zooms in towards Anna&#8217;s impassive face. I can almost hear the guy thinking, <i>&#8216;Who&#8217;s that clown with the oiled ponytail? I haven&#8217;t eaten for so many days, and I have to put up with this shit? Bring me some poha and let&#8217;s call it off already.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That would be an <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/annas-song\/\" title=\"Anna's Song -- Amit Varma\">an excellent idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *&nbsp;  *<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already read it, make sure you go through Siddhartha Deb&#8217;s wonderful feature on Chaudhuri, <a href=\"http:\/\/static.ow.ly\/docs\/Gatsby%20in%20New%20Delhi_gHc.pdf\" title=\"'Gatsby in New Delhi'\">&#8216;Gatsby in New Delhi&#8217;<\/a> (pdf link). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caravanmagazine.in\/Story\/1001\/IIPM-s-Rs500-million-lawsuit-against--em-The-Caravan--em-.html\" title=\"Chaudhuri's already gone to court\">Chaudhuri&#8217;s already gone to court<\/a> over it, as you might expect from <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/question-of-principles.html\" title=\"A Question of Principles -- Amit Varma\">his past shenanigans<\/a>.&nbsp; Such it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Arindam Chaudhuri (and 200 Million Murders) - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/arindam-chaudhuri-and-200-million-murders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Arindam Chaudhuri (and 200 Million Murders) - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is truly an August month in the history of Indian WTFness. 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