Dear Damodar Prasad, > Thirdly, before finding materials some obscure blog, first you cross check with mainstraem media whether any things is there on it , which others have also seen or read ( Let me add, i have no problem quoting from a blog with a linked attached to it. I dont maintain that mainstream media are more relaible than obscure blog) . But then stating that there is a 'disturbing silence" is xtreme and ridiclous.
When I said the "chatterati maintains a ...." it should have been clear to anybody that I was not referring to front page reports by this Swa. Le. (സ്വ. ലേ) or that Pra. Le or even Pra. Ri. Where are the Udit Rajs, Kancha Iliahs? Where is Arjun Singh? Do the political parties and leaders have any definite stand, barring Mayawati? As to this group, which as far as I can see discusses caste issues at some length, let me show you something: http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth/search?group=greenyouth&q=gujjar&qt_g=Search+this+group. That was a search of this group for the word 'gujjar'. You get one hit (somehow this thread hasn't yet made it into the search index yet), which is on a totally different topic. Now look at this: http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth/search?group=greenyouth&q=anti+reservation&qt_g=Search+this+group. That was a search on 'anti reservation'. You get 47 results, most of them are relevant. These are two very closely related topics. Also, the Gujjar agitation is happening for the second time in about one year. Now, if you want to make me believe that there is no rat smell here, I have to disappoint you. You may have any explanation for this anomaly. But to me it looks like a case of the 'dog that did not bark'. > Secondly, ur main laksya, I guess is to snub people only b 'coz they had enagaged on issuesd of concern from ones own point of perspectives It's all right to 'engage on issues from ones own point of perspectives' as long as it is circumscribed by the dictum that 'you are entitled to your opinions, but not facts'. Look at how such engagements are done here: when I mentioned relevant data (on poverty reduction) compiled by expert agencies entrusted with the task, the advice was 'forget all that, listen to Sainath'. When attention was drawn to the fact that the Central government at best has sketchy ideas about who the OBCs are or what their percentage in the population is or that reservations are sold as a panacea or used as a mask to cover failure of governance, the response was 'bummer, you don't know what caste hegemony is'. Hardly meaningful, but quite imaginative! Best regards, Murali On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:58 PM, damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
