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Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳

8 Jul, 9 tweets, 2 min read

Was listening to a discussion by Advaita Kala. The usual suspects were there. Suhel Seth, Abhijit IM etc discussing on the cabinet reshuffle. Some of the stuff I heard amazed me.

1/n

Suhel keeps talking in cliches. I have heard enough now to almost mimic him. The Little Lord Flauntleroy example.. a couple of Shakespearean quotes. "Ceaser's wife..." etc.

2/n

He was actually wondering why Babul Supriyo was dropped. Boss, he was missing post the elections and tweeted about chances that his car would be attacked if he went out to help.

3/n

AIM spoke said that he assumes that the PMO interferes with everything anyway and then analyzed everything on the basis of that assumption. I thought analysts ought to test their assumptions against data! Silly me.

4/n

While fulminating against the education policy, he said "knowledge doubles every 18 months" and everyone just accepted that. No sir. I think you are talking about data and cpu speeds maybe. Knowledge certainly doesnt double like that.

5/n

We don't know twice what we knew about Phy/Chem/Maths 18 months ago.

Advaita herself was "surprised" that there are internal dynamics at play in selecting people. Say what??? It is like no one has worked in large organizations before? Suhel must have.

6/n

All in all, talking heads on TV are just not worth listening to.

That's the upshot of it all for me.

7/7

The point I am trying to make is this: Online shows can really make a mark by NOT repeating the mistakes of TV debates like getting the same talking heads to pontificate on everything. Far better to get domain experts to talk about things. If it is brand/marketing, bring Suhel on

If it is defence, sure, bring on AIM. He claims to be a defence expert and that is his day job. But unnecessarilty doing the same things that made us move away from TV News is not helping your cause.

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