On 11/2/06, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
English is not my native language and some subtleties still escape me, but what has disability or depression got to do with this? I simply meant lunatic="ignorant extremist." According to dictionary.com lunatic="a person whose actions and manner are marked by extreme eccentricity or recklessness."
Anyway here's a lunatic: (And this is one of the more sober ones)
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Subject: PRaful Bidwai\'s article on intolerance
Praful Bidwai is a master of selective criticism. While he ferrets out a list of examples of intolerance from the Hindu right wing in last couple of decades, he conveniently ignores the examples of the other side. Boycott of Salman Rushdie is too fresh to be forgotten.
While I am a BJP/RSS supporter, I do not necessarily agree with some of the VHP/BD antics. However, because the leftist intellectuals refuse to recognize the fact that the Hindu right wing's fanaticm is a direct reaction to left's and secularists' appeasement policies, it is extremely difficult for moderate right-wingers like me, to criticize extreme right-wingers.
This is no different than what's happening in America today. As the democrats do anything and everything to please minorities, fanatics like the Baptists from the south, can get away with their intolerant behaviour.
If Mr. Bidwai really wants to improve the lot of the minorities, then, he should learn from the american experience of the blacks (esp in last 15 years) and encourage the political class to persuade minorities to change their ghettoized mentality.
Thanks,
Madhup Rathi
On Nov 2, 2006, at 7:08 PM, raghu wrote:
> the lunatics always make the most amount of noise. Always.
Doyle;
What lunatics? Depressed lunatics? Schizophrenic lunatics. Or
fanciful images of lunatics in which the conception of what is their
cognition is a bit of mystery.
English is not my native language and some subtleties still escape me, but what has disability or depression got to do with this? I simply meant lunatic="ignorant extremist." According to dictionary.com lunatic="a person whose actions and manner are marked by extreme eccentricity or recklessness."
Anyway here's a lunatic: (And this is one of the more sober ones)
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Subject: PRaful Bidwai\'s article on intolerance
Praful Bidwai is a master of selective criticism. While he ferrets out a list of examples of intolerance from the Hindu right wing in last couple of decades, he conveniently ignores the examples of the other side. Boycott of Salman Rushdie is too fresh to be forgotten.
While I am a BJP/RSS supporter, I do not necessarily agree with some of the VHP/BD antics. However, because the leftist intellectuals refuse to recognize the fact that the Hindu right wing's fanaticm is a direct reaction to left's and secularists' appeasement policies, it is extremely difficult for moderate right-wingers like me, to criticize extreme right-wingers.
This is no different than what's happening in America today. As the democrats do anything and everything to please minorities, fanatics like the Baptists from the south, can get away with their intolerant behaviour.
If Mr. Bidwai really wants to improve the lot of the minorities, then, he should learn from the american experience of the blacks (esp in last 15 years) and encourage the political class to persuade minorities to change their ghettoized mentality.
Thanks,
Madhup Rathi
-raghu.
