Barkha Dutt Vs Anupam Kher ,Telegraph National Debate 5th march 2016 | Logic Vs Impulse

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The motion of this year's TT debate is 'Tolerance is the new Intolerance' and it's like one of those words or phrases that read the same way, no matter which way you read them, left to right or vice versa. Speaking for the motion: Suhel Seth, the actor Kajol and the actor Anupam Kher; speaking against: Justice Asok Ganguly, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala and Barkha Dutt, journalist and TV anchor; moderating the debate is Mukul Kesavan, writer and historian.

On the scuttlebutt I hear that Suhel Seth's opening line is going to be something like 'Chairman Sir, it's unfair! There are only three speakers on our side of the motion while the other side has four, including you!' As it happens, Seth doesn't actually come out with this except tangentially, kicking a tepidly waved corporate boot at Kesavan's invisible jhola, but only in passing. Kesavan himself is the model of propriety and neutrality, liberal jhola kept well out of sight, as in his introductory remarks he describes Anupam Kher as 'durable' and Suhel Seth, memorably, as 'an ornament of corporate India'.

Seth doesn't mind - or more likely doesn't notice - as he begins the arguments for the motion. It's a warm evening at Calcutta Club, the banks of lights are full on the speakers, but it's still mystifying how the sweat starts flying off Seth's face even before he's finished a sentence. I'm waiting for him to say the line that's been his favourite since he was a La Martiniere student in the 1970s: 'HANG THEM!' or, 'LET THEM HANG!' but this evening the Calcutta boy disappoints, he doesn't want to hang anyone, or not yet anyway.

In fact, as has never been suspected of him, Seth swings both ways, with the occasional yorker and slower ball in between. Bengal, we are told, is a Temple of Tolerance, Mamata Banerjee is a 'timid lady' (it was sarcasm, one could tell), intolerance comes from 'media circuses', and then he uses his second favourite word, 'idiots', several times. He tells us how 'we were all' intolerant of Marwaris and how a certain derogatory word is used for people from the Northeast. He says the PM should speak up and how he looks forward to a gender-neutral corporate India. He proclaims how branding an entire nation as intolerant is (not idiotic but) 'stupid'. 'India is a land of ideas!', 'Calcutta is a city of ideas!', 'Intolerance should not become a late-motif'. At the end of his speech you can't tell what Suhel Seth is selling but you can tell he is a salesman.
Source :: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160306...