On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Dileep Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> ( I really don't understand why people exhort to refrain from
> engaging in critical debates and be satisfied with chanting certain
> manthras.While somebody claim that everything is said and done on certain
> topics,
> and everybody should content with uncritical repetition of
> certain 'critical' traditions... and show intolerence toward all
> differences,
> and even worse, brand everybody referring to certain names as
> reactionaries... I simply feel like ignoring it.)
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You ignore certain critical traditions and go on talking about Sathyagraha
and Panchayathi Raj, which is a talk that started some sixty years ago..
and when some others bring attention to some alternate ways of thinking
about the same subject, you turn the tables on them and project your
own problems into them?
1.*Really? and modern??
what kind of discussions take place there in GAndhi's (savarna) raj?
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> Ranju,
> This is as rediculous as retorting "Really?Modern?" to somebody who say
> Hindu fundamentalism is modern not, traditional!!
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> the point was, panchayat is a state, umpire, arbitrar, whihc works on
> hierarchy.
> Gandhi does not deny decision making within it . Its not that Gandhi stick
> to statelessness.
> Its only that his state is small.
>
> The moment one come across "modern" or "discussion' why should some
> (positive) values be ascribed to it?
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> 2. Jenny,
> on post Chengara scenario, there ofcourse were serius deliberations in the
> session.
> ( why are you so intolerent of a debate where about thirty people met --
> everybody except two or three were nonacademicians-- and had a live
> discussion on certain important political issues ? who is Ajay Skaria? Why
> do you transfer such anger to this sphere?)
>
> Nizar observed that Chengara struggle is Gandhian in nature due to the
> readiness to self injury but the present day state and civil society is more
> brutal than the British. It doesn't mind even if the
> struggling people die. Thus here government is resorting to Gandhian
> method , waiting patiently for the people to change ther mind !!
>
>
> Can you please follow your own advice about critical debate, and tell me
> what makes you think i am intolerant.
>
When there is a report on a seminar with no reference to the issue of
Caste, and there is a cliched debate
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