Ahmed, . when Venugopal sent that post titled Satanic Verses, don';t you think it was related to Gandhi;s thoughts and philosohpy..?? If you want to salvage Gandhism against all Ambedkarite, Dalit and other criticism.. go on do it.. Gandhism must be that important for some for various reasons...
The whole exercise here was to show that this might not be what everybody in this group thinks, feels.. Now how you deal with the perspectives of these "others" is up to you. >you can attack the "others" personally (i am not even suggesting that you are doing this, but it was done in this forum) >You can reject it by saying that it has a problem, it is not fully formulated, it is not that, this etc etc.. OR > you can engage with the critique and try to communicate your Gandhi (as a man, text, philosophy etc etc ) not in the same old way as before, but after taking into considerations this critique.. Actually my initial point was also this:. That given the fact that an Ambedkarite critique of Gandhi does exist, the seminar should have used/engaged with that critique in its reading of Gandhi. And the Ambedkarite critique is not just about Gandhi as the man.. But also his whole philosophy.. jenny On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:53 PM, ahmed rafeek j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > >> Here you have an upper caste Indian man pitted against a Dalit man, >> and the difference is so huge, its like one is a white man >> and the other black.... >> and though both of them lived and worked during a particular historical >> period, >> and moved in very similar contexts, there was very little that they >> otherwise shared. >> > > Isn't it important, for the discussion here to make a distinction between > Gandhi tha man and reading Gandhi? I think it is important. Because if we > reduce Gandhi to the man, the scope of criticism would be very limited. > > I think both, 'Gandhi the man', and 'Gandhi as a period, a group of > throughts, a way of life, philosophy etc needs to be discussed separately. > * * I think that is the reason why Ranjith's criticism, and Jenny's to an > extend seems very week to respond to Nizar's points on Gandhi. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
