Word: mehta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stories that some movie snobs claim to have special meaning, nor was there any of that militant male-bashing. More important, though, was the voyeuristic experience, as the viewer peeked into the lives and relationships of women in settings ranging from bloodshed in 1947 India (Earth, directed by Deepa Mehta) to the music scene of Los Angeles (Sugar Town, directed by Allison Anders...
...wasn't enough for Geoffrey C. Upton to complain about Boston's "White" station, Kiss 108; now we have Jal D. Mehta spouting about Boston's "black" station, Jam'n 94.5 (Opinion, Jan. 25). Both writers seem to agree that each of these stations represents a lack of "integration" in Boston's radio market that reflects a corresponding lack of integration in Boston's social world...
...have to say that if the only stations that your writers listen to are Jam'n 94.5 and Kiss 108, then they probably don't have a clue about the Boston radio scene. Upton is mad that Kiss 108 doesn't play enough "black" music; Mehta cries that Jam'n isn't serving as the "sounding board for black concerns to suburban white listeners" that it would be, while WILD (which was supposedly a great "sounding board" in the 1960s) is too small...
Forgive me for questioning the assumption of your writers that radio should play "black music" to teach white people a lesson or two. And excuse me for pointing out that both of your writers seem to look at their home cities--suburban Baltimore for Mehta and somewhere in the New York area for Upton--as the standard-bearers of racial integration and harmony, while claiming that Boston is a backward, segregated, parochial city...
...Mehta '99, a Crimson editor, is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House...