Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Immoral prose

I don't know why I keep picking on The Hindu: they're hardly that important. But it's hard to resist when they come up with something like this:
Ms. Patil ended her address by invoking Swami Vivekanada’s "immoral clarion call" to fellow-citizens to “Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached."

(It also appears in the print edition.)

(President Patil's speech was a masterclass in how to mix metaphors and recycle cliches, but I don't think she was responsible for that description of Vivekananda's call, or that spelling of his name.)
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3 comments:

  1. km8/16/2007 5:32 am

    Someone had etched "arise, awake, for the class is over" on my desk in college.

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  2. Anonymous8/18/2007 2:20 am

    Really funny :)

    Reminds me of a public function where the chief guest said - arise, awake and stop until your goal is reached.

    It probably is one of those that are rather easy to goof up..

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  3. Anonymous8/22/2007 3:33 am

    hi,
    R u sure its not "immortal" but immoral as you put it?

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