After a long time I did an "Analyze an argument" exercise :)

Amitji got (I must admit) a well written article published in The Statesman by Derek Bose on him. Yet, IMHO the arguments made by Mr. Bose is flawed on the very fundamentals. And yet Amitji refuses to comment on it. I guess Amitji is bored of commenting on such articles for several decades now ... :) So ... I, very humbly, choose to do the honors this time ... Njoy!

Here is my comment on it:
http://blogs.bigadda.com/ab/2008/08/30/day-129i/#comment-103636
And here is the actual article:
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=19&theme=&usrsess=1&id=220229

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Aah .. u r not commenting .. Let me do the honors on this one:
The author says:
(1) “Letting their ‘work’ speak for themselves, obviously, does not fit into this scheme of things.”

The author has a very narrow view of ‘work’. The promotions, tours, meet and greet, etc are part of the work of an artise and the author has forgotten that a work of art has to be ‘made known’ for people to go to it.Author confuses ‘work’ to be only doing it and sit back and relax. This is never true, even a work of science never speaks of itself unless published and advertised. Yes, even the nerdiest scientific work has to be submitted for conferences and journals of the field and accepted to be published. Yes, I had to get up, travel and talk about my work for the community to take a note of me. Publishing and talking about your work has always been part of any serious endeavour. The same is true for software that I have been part of: we had to advertise every feature that we add to be ‘made known’ to the consumers. Advertising and making your work known IS and WILL BE part of the work. For work of science by publication in major conferences and for software to be released for consumers, or for a piece of art … it ought to be made known!!

(2) “Blog wars: The ultimate free-for-all space for every self-obsessed star to brag and abuse, rave and rant, crib and curse”

Firstly, it seems the author reads a blog only if it is abusive or is filled of curses. I am not sure why would anyone NOT read any other kind of blog. The author forgot to read the best blog ever: you blog on your mother, or even the blogs about the concert or innumerable blogs that are mostly positive .. or even my little insignificant blog http://saurabhaditya.blogspot.comAah .. there are so many good blogs and I pity the author of having missed so much … catch up dear!
Secondly, a blog is by definition personal. Thus, I think “self-obsessed” has to do with the definition of a blog, while the author is accusing blog writers of beeing narcissistic to write their own blog! Of course a blog is an expression of the blog writer’s thoughts, it is about his/her self, experiences .. and everything personal.

(3) “Bachchan has taught them that there is no age for retirement in films”

I remember Dilip Kumar, Ashok Kumar, RajKumar, A.K. Hangal … and innumerable others working until they could … there has never been any age for retirement in films. It is the love of work that keeps you going and not that you are ‘taught by’ anybody. At least in the country I live in, there is no age for retirement in any profession. I can choose to keep working as I wish. The same is true as I see in the Hindi movie industry. I don’t think any artist is naive to have learnt this only by Mr Bachan’s example.

By the way Amitji, what happened to the concert in Germany? On the website it doesn’t say anything after London, Wasn’t there something in Germany and/or Netherlands and then in India too!!
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