Date:22/07/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/07/22/stories/2005072201300200.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Time machine mangta hai

Imagine going back in time, to times when life was leisurely and simple minus all the cunningness and cruelty of the modern world.

What would you do to alter the present you just left behind? Would you fade into ether and make the noise making, money minting corrupt neta log vanish from the face of earth and bring back the monarch?

Send all maverick copycats er... music makers and film writers packing and get back Kalidasa, Tenali Ramakrishna and the other Ashta Diggajas back?

Burn all those designer flashy clothes and get back to leaves and fibre?

Dump the idiot box and get back Harikadhas and Yakshaganas?

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