{"id":4815,"date":"2008-05-03T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2008-05-03T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T01:17:00","slug":"rigour-to-the-discourse-in-the-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/rigour-to-the-discourse-in-the-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigour to the Discourse in the Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sambit Bal, once my boss at Cricinfo and one of the best men I know, is a cricket writer I admire for his clear thinking and lucid writing. That’s why it hurts<\/i> when he comes up<\/a> with a sentence as monstrous as the one below:<\/p>\n Sport runs in Kolkata’s veins; it is ingrained in the socio-cultural fabric of the city, and though fans here can often be irrational, there is also a discernible intellectual rigour to the public discourse on cricket.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I can forgive the cliché at the start of the sentence, but “socio-cultural fabric of the city”? “Public discourse on cricket?” “Discernible intellectual rigour?” Ouch!<\/p>\n Pedantic aside<\/b>: The ‘though’ makes the ‘also’ redundant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sambit Bal, once my boss at Cricinfo and one of the best men I know, is a cricket writer I admire for his clear thinking and lucid writing. That’s why it hurts<\/i> when he comes up<\/a> with a sentence as monstrous as the one below:<\/p>\n Sport runs in Kolkata’s veins; it is ingrained in the socio-cultural fabric of the city, and though fans here can often be irrational, there is also a discernible intellectual rigour to the public discourse on cricket.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I can forgive the cliché at the start of the sentence, but “socio-cultural fabric of the city”? “Public discourse on cricket?” “Discernible intellectual rigour?” Ouch!<\/p>\n Pedantic aside<\/b>: The ‘though’ makes the ‘also’ redundant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,14,10,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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