When Exorcising the System Is the Best Way to Ringfence It
In a virtuoso performance, one of Indiaâs veteran journalists eats the cake even as he is having it.
A man carrying wood walks past the funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
âLet everyone abandon thee if they will, Mother â but know that
I never shall.â This is the opening line, and refrain, of a well-known Rabindranath Tagore song: â
Je tomaye chhare chharuk/ Ami tomaye chharbo na, Ma..â I doubt if veteran editor Prabhu Chawla is familiar with these words, though he seems to have imbibed their spirit with admirable fullness.