satyagarha can be used as a dialogue with society much more
effectively..really,post modern gandhi is also engaged in various subaltern
struggles against power structure( for eg.sikkim's anti-hydro power struggle
has been one of the latest example of such a struuggle),gandhian sataygarha has
been the most important weapon in the hands of satyagrahis.
But,During his life time,gandhiji took more than 21 fasts,none is against
untouchability.
--- On Mon, 6/10/08, devika Jayakumari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: devika Jayakumari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: Chengara: Is It Satyagraha? ( Forget Gandhi while
speaking about Satyagraha!!!)
To: greenyouth@googlegroups.com
Date: Monday, 6 October, 2008, 11:10 AM
The 'truth' could be utterly material, right? Like the realisation that
'progressive parties' are of no use to dalit people? the knowledge that people
can't return to worse lives elsewhere?
Just because Gandhi borrowed his techniques from antecedents -- from the Bhakti
cult saints-- nobody equates him with a Bhakti saint (except diehard followers,
I suppose). It would be hard to deny him ingenuity, either. I don't think
saying that the activists at Chengara are using the techniques of satyagraha
automatically reduces them to Gandhi's politics or denies their innovativeness.
Devika
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