Sunday, February 10, 2013

‘This nation wants to know’


It may sound flippant but if I was to name the Indian of the Year for 2012, my choice would be Arnab Goswami of Times Now. The reason has nothing to do with the fact that I am a regular follower of his prime-time debates.


Nor is it connected with his hectoring style which I find enthralling at times and quite energetic all the times. Arnab's foremost contribution to the public is his unending search for what "the nation" wants to know.

In projecting the "nation" as the theme Arnab has succeeded in doing something quite remarkable: he has successfully made "nationalism" the core attribute for assessing public life. In positing the "nation" as the ultimate arbiter of the larger "national good" and doing so with passion, verve and eloquence, Arnab managed to create a constituency of people who refused to be patronized by the superior assumptions of a handful of the "enlightened".

On issues relating to Pakistan, he refused to be cowed down by the sentimentalism of the Aman ki asha pseuds and on China he ruthlessly questioned the "nuanced" sophistry of the professional ‘knowledgeable’ in South Block. On corruption, he was single-minded in his determination to cut through this core issue. And on mundane political fights, he was both skeptical and irreverent, asking right set of questions all the times.

There was an additional feature to Arnab's discourses each week night that I find both amusing and encouraging: his polite insolence and his high energy. You feel he is talking for you and your nation. His questions look very honest.

Arnab, is "reasonable" only off camera. On air he becomes a voice of indignation, anger and even insolence. He wants to kick the errant netas. Since we can't, we are happy for Arnab to do it for us.

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Now it’s true that if you are weak, if you muddle through your middle-class life, you may get scared listening to the Newshour on Times Now when he starts shouting. Your child may start crying, you may drop your coffee, or an aging person in the house may have a heart attack and die, but that’s because you are weak. You don’t have the mental and physical strength to listen to the day’s news. You don’t understand that anyone can read the news, but how many can feel the news? Tear the news? Break the news? Blow the news? Be blown by the news? Indeed, I’d go further and ask, how many can just say the word news in so many different ways so you think it’s not news – but your house burning down? That’s right, the answer is two words (or one word hyphenated) – no one.

Unlike weak people, Arnab and I are men of the world. We have strength. We have foresight. But there is one difference between us, I have hair loss and he has a lapel microphone. And into that lapel microphone, more than any other Indian, he knows what to do. To say, “No! No! No! No!” just when one of his guests begins to speak. That’s genius. That’s why he’s where he is (in a suit in Lower Parel) and the rest of us are where we are (elsewhere). He’s figured out the crucial Indian trait that many have forgotten – to deny things even before anything is said. To reject their argument way before an argument. Timed to perfection, like a Tiger Woods-infidelity. Right after “Arnab I think-” and boom. There. Every night. Come the tsunami of nos. Never a second late, like a master craftsman. It’s like watching Michelangelo.

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