Re: [GreenYouth] Just and un-just in T P Chandrashekharan murder case

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Yes. Satchi mash. What you said is right. Selective Amnesia- that's a
correct word.
 How easily Chekkanur Moulavi faded from our memory.  Where has the
CBI investigation landed.

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Satchid anandan wrote:

> The article certainly raises important issues, esp concerning our
> selective indifference and amnesia.But the central question it implies is
> the most fascinating for me : is the murder of the murderer justified?(
> Just recall an early Kerala novel: ഘാതകവധം ,   tr:  Slayer Slain) As
> someone who opposes capital punishment, I would say NO.
>
>
> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Fathima Naeema wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> What was T P Cahandrashekharan's position on political
>> violence? Wasn't he himself involved, when he was with CPIM,  in many
>> violences, including murders, occurred in Vadakara, Nadapauram and nearby
>> areas? As a CPIM worker, didnt he get benefits and political milages from
>> these violences? Morally, can we take a position on TP murder case unless
>> we take into account his own position on political violence?Read
>> the article attached to this mail.
>>
>>
>> F.
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[GreenYouth] Amid the Murdoch scandal, there’s an acrid smell of business as usual/ by John Pilger

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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there’s an acrid smell of business as usual

John Pilger 

http://www.newstatesman.com/newspapers/2011/07/pilger-murdoch-media-press


In *Scoop*, Evelyn Waugh's brilliant satire on the press, there is the
moment when Lord Copper, owner of the *Daily Beast*, meets his new special
war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and
birdsong. A confused Boot is ushered into his lordship's presence by Mr
Salter, the *Beast*'s foreign editor.

“Is Mr Boot all set for his trip?"

“Up to a point, Lord Copper."

Copper briefs Boot as follows: "A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts
of personal bravery on the Patriot side and a colourful entry into the
capital. That is the Beast policy for the war . . . We shall expect the
first victory about the middle of July."

Rupert Murdoch is a 21st-century Lord Copper. The amusing gentility is
missing; the absur­dity of his power is the same. The *Daily Beast* wanted
victories; it got them. The *Sun* wanted dead Argies; gotcha! Of the
bloodbath in Iraq, Murdoch said: "There is going to be collateral damage,
and if you really want to be brutal about it, better we get it done now . .
." The *Times*, the *Sunday Times*, Fox got it done.
Corporate monoculture

Long before it was possible to hack phones, Murdoch was waging a war on
journalism, truth, humanity, and succeeded because he knew how to exploit a
system that welcomed his devotion to the "free market". He may be more
extreme in his methods, but he is no different in kind from many of those
now lining up to condemn him who have been his beneficiaries, mimics,
collaborators, apologists.

As Gordon Brown turns on his former master, accusing him of running a
"criminal-media nexus", watch the palpable discomfort in the new
parliamentary-media consensus. "We must not be backward-looking," said a
Labour MP. Those parliamentarians caught two years ago with both hands in
the Westminster till, who did nothing to stop the killing of hundreds of
thousands of people in Iraq, and stood and cheered the war criminal
responsible, are now "united" behind the "calm" figure of Ed Miliband. There
is an acrid smell of business as usual.

Certainly, there is no "revolution", as reported in the *Guardian*, which
compared the fall of Murdoch with that of the tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu in
Romania in 1989. The overexcitement is understandable; Nick Davies's scoop
is a great one. Yet the truth is, Britain's system of elite monopoly control
of the media rests not on News International alone, but on the *Mail* and
the *Guardian* and the BBC, perhaps the most influential of all. All share a
corporate monoculture that sets the agenda of the "news", defines acceptable
politics by maintaining the fiction of distinctive parties, normalises
unpopular wars and guards the limits of "free speech". This will be
strengthened by the illusion that a "bad apple" has been "rooted out".

When the *Financial Times* complained last September that the BSkyB takeover
would give Murdoch dominance in Britain, the media commentator Roy
Greenslade came to his rescue. "Surely," he wrote, "Britain's leading
business newspaper should be applauding an entrepreneur who has achieved so
much from unpromising beginnings?" Murdoch's political control was a myth
spread by "naive commentators". Noting his own "idealism" about journalism,
Greenslade made no mention of his history on the *Sun*, or as Robert
Maxwell's *Daily Mirror*editor responsible for the shameful smear that the
miners' leader Arthur Scargill was corrupt. (To his credit, he apologised in
2002.)

Greenslade is now a professor of journalism at City University, London. In
his*Guardian* blog of 17 July, he caught the breeze and proposed that
Murdoch explain "the climate you created". How many of the political and
media chorus now calling for Murdoch's head remained silent over the years
as his papers repeatedly attacked the most vulnerable in society?
Impoverished single mothers have been a favourite target of tax-avoiding
News International. Who in the so-called media village demanded the sacking
of Kelvin MacKenzie as *Sun*editor following his attacks on the dead and
dying in the Hillsborough stadium tragedy of 1989?
The kowtowing class

This was an episode as debased as the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, yet
MacKenzie is frequently feted on the BBC and in the liberal press as a
"witty" tabloid genius who "understands the ordinary punter". Such vicarious
middle-class flirtation with Wapping-life is matched by admiration for the
successful Murdoch "marketing model".

In Andrew Neil's 470-page book *Full Disclosure*, the former editor of
Murdoch's*Sunday Times* devotes fewer than 30 words to the scurrilous and
destructive smear campaign that he and his Wapping colleagues conducted
against the broadcasters who made the 1988 Thames Television programme *Death
on the Rock*. This landmark, fully vindicated investigation li

[GreenYouth] Murdoch: Will Anything Really Change? By TARIQ ALI

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The rottenness of British political culture, in a country where the lives of
so many have been subjugated by lies for so long, has now been on public
view for the last few weeks. The country’s most powerful media baron is
forced by events to close down his profitable Sunday paper—News of the
World--- specializing in celebrity sex stories and using its close links
with the police to get tip-offs about murder investigations, disappearances,
etc. They went too far by hacking the mobile phone of a murder victim and
stealing the messages, thus creating an impression that she might still be
alive.

It was this that triggered a nationwide revulsion shining the torch on
politicians and the senior most policemen in the country. Why had David
Cameron hired a senior Murdoch journalist as his press chief? Why had
Scotland Yard hired another senior journalist from the same stable?  Of
course we know why, but the fact that it has now become an outrage makes it
unacceptable.

It’s a very British scandal, of the sort that erupts suddenly and
immediately becomes a national preoccupation. One almost feels that the
psycho-politics underlying this for most people, those who live outside the
bubble world of power, money and celebritydom, is partially escapist and a
substitute for the anger that people genuinely feel against a corrupt and
corrupting  political establishment of the country: bankers, media barons,
politicians, judges and the police. The economy is in a mess, austerity
measures are in place, Scotland is seriously disaffected, but at least
Members of Parliament can question Rupert Murdoch and his son and watch them
apologizing and cringing in public.

Murdoch came to life twice. First when he applauded the Daily Telegraph for
exposing MP’s fiddling their expenses and urged them to follow the
transparent model offered by Singapore and secondly when a protester threw
some shaving foam at him and got punched by Wendi Murdoch. For the rest the
Murdochs put on a good double act. Young James sounding like an Enron
executive after the collapse and a moist-eyed Rupert explaining how he had
learnt his journalism from his brilliant father who had exposed the disaster
at Gallipoli. And after the rehearsed drama? Even if Murdoch doesn’t aquire
all of BskyB, will anything really change?

The Murdoch Empire has dominated British politics since the days of Margaret
Thatcher. She gave him satellite television. He destroyed the print unions
and his newspapers helped to destroy the miners. He was instrumental in
creating a culture that glorified privatizations, free-market dogmas,  wars,
(all of Murdoch’s nearly 300 papers in different parts of the world
supported the Iraq war), etc. The right-wing populism unleashed by the
Thatcher-Murdoch combination neutered the public ethos created after the
Second World War. So strong was this influence that others newspapers and
television networks (like Channel Four and the BBC) lost confidence in
themselves and became pale imitations in search of circulations and ratings.
 Classical music, loved by many regardless of class or creed or race, was
considered elitist and disallowed on BBC 2.

Thatcher’s Blue Labour heirs, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown continued the
worship of money and Murdoch. Blair continuously abased himself before the
media baron. Brown did the same. Murdoch press editors became regular guests
at official residences; their own private parties regularly attended by
Prime Ministers and their entourage. Just yesterday Murdoch said that he and
Gordon Brown met regularly. Their families became friends. David Cameron
followed suit, making it clear that despite his class background he could be
just like Blair and embrace anyone and everything that linked big money and
politics.

It was Peter Oborne, a journalist writing for the always-conservative Daily
Telegraph who provided a coruscating pen-portrait of Cameron, suggesting
that he had consciously descended to the sewer by becoming part of the
louche Chipping Norton set:

“He should never have employed Andy Coulson, the News of the World editor,
as his director of communications. He should never have cultivated Rupert
Murdoch. And – the worst mistake of all – he should never have allowed
himself to become a close friend of Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of
the media giant News International, whose departure from that company in
shame and disgrace can only be a matter of time. We are talking about a
pattern of behaviour here. Indeed, it might be better described as a course
of action. Mr Cameron allowed himself to be drawn into a social coterie in
which no respectable person, let alone a British prime minister, should be
seen dead.”

Cameron has shown himself quite as authoritarian and opportunist as Blair in
his handling of the party. But if the political lava from this volcanic
scandal  continues to  flow,  the British Prime Minister, currently wounded
by the revelations might have little option but to fall on his sword. We
ha

Re: [GreenYouth] MESSAGE

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*Very important.*  The Media just ignored the issue. As indicated in the
communication (attached pdf file), there was a possibility of Allapuzha
District Judge Mr.P.K.Baburaj becoming a judge in HC.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:58 PM, sunil kumar wrote:

>  Kerala Dalit Maha Sabha (KDMS) demands CBI inquiry on mysterious death of
> Mr. P K Baburaj, who was the district Judge of Alappuzha.Press Reklase
> attatched
>
>
> C S Murali,
> District President KDMS
> Ernakulam
>
> For details call: 9142695285
>
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[GreenYouth] The Indian Murdochs will not apologise............

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http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=5397&mod=1&pg=1§ionId=5&valid=true
Media consumers here in India are seeing in the events in Britain a
reflection of the changes that have taken place in the ecosystem of news.

When television began to expand in India in the 1990s, the state-run
broadcaster Doordarshan was nowhere as confident of its professional worth
as BBC has been, thanks to the confused tinkering with policy by the
Information and Broadcasting ministry. Between the too-willing regulators in
the ministry in league with the aspiring corporates, the news industry has
been successfully driven into a quagmire of haphazard growth. By late 90s,
the Murdochian model of journalism that took hold internationally was
welcomed in India too. Like the self-replicating virus Mr Smith of the
movie, The Matrix Reloaded, every other television channel and newspaper in
India has modelled itself on the news values of the Murdoch empire.

As is being amply illustrated in the ongoing expose of the empire and its
strategies, sleaze in journalism poses multiple threats to the
readers/viewers. We all feel it is fun to peek into celebrity affairs,
because they are in public life. We also love to trash the personal lives of
the politicians because they too are in public life. But to get us our ‘fix’
of news as entertainment, the organizations break the laws, form corrupt and
unholy nexus with those who can trade information.

Secondly, every story has to be sexy and personalised to make the target
squirm and give us the kick of voyeuristic pleasure. This sexing up is done
cleverly. On the one hand, it pretends to provoke moral outrage in us
against such behaviour; on the other, it stokes our prurience and gradually
naturalises it instead of making us think responsibly about it. Thirdly,
once the strategies are set, there is no guarantee that these will be used
only against celebrities and politicians and will not be used against you
and me. This is precisely what happened in the UK. Phones of dead soldiers’
families and crime victims have been hacked to dish out sensational stories
to the public. Intrusion into the private lives of ordinary people can be
seen on many of the English and regional language channels in India as well.

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[GreenYouth] Royalists Disguised as Civil Society: Padmanabha Temple Disclosure

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This is an english translation of J.Raghu's article that came in Madhyamam.
The translation is done by Ajay Sekar.
http://ajaysekher.net/2011/07/18/royalists-disguised-civil-society-padmanabha-temple-disclosure-exclusie-essay-reghu/

If public education is the priority and yardstick of the welfare aspirations
of a princely state; historical records prove that Trvancore was not a
welfare state.  From its inception in 1750 Travancore’s main expenditure was
on rituals to appease the Brahmans.  The self legitimizing crisis of a Sudra
dynasty resulted in the dedication of the kingdom to Sri Padmanabha and the
subservient status of the king.  The kingdom  of Orissa was submitted to
lord Jagannath of Puri.  The kings of Orissa called themselves the ‘sweepers
of Jagannath’.

Marthanda Varma the ruler of Venad hailing from Sudra origins aggressively
invaded and conquered the neighboring Sudra feudal lords of southern Kerala
in the early 18thcentury and enlarged the small province of Venad to the
kingdom of Travancore.  The only means of getting the moral sanction and
legitimization of the priestly Brahmans to overrule the kingdom as a
sovereign was to submit it to Sri Padmanabha.  The lack of Kshatriya status
by birth that was supposed to legitimize their ascension from local
chieftains to kings made them fear their own self assumed kingly identity.

Establishing their royal identity through the Brahmanic sanction of their
‘symbolic Kshatriya status’ became their sole aim ever since.  That is why
they were forced to hoard unlimited wealth for the symbolic Kshatriya
ascension rituals in the temple carried out by the Brahmans.  The rituals
that began as Hiranya Garbham and Murajapam were further extended to Shodasa
Dana and Free meals for Brahmans by the priestocracy gradually.  Sixteen
types of Dana or gifts were established for the Brahmans in addition to
permanent free meal serving halls.  Kunchan Nambiar the early poet in
Malayalam satirically critiqued this everyday free feasts exclusively served
to the Brahmans in the capital utilizing public revenue.  In short the
kingly state of Travancore became a kingdom of Brahman worship and Brahman
donation.

It became the burden of the kings to accumulate and hoard wealth for these
unlimited donations and services to the Brahmans that grew day by day.
Discursive contexts of Brahmanism interpreted the gifts and donations to the
Brahman as the supreme charitable and moral act of religious exaltation.
Brahman’s also proclaimed the king of Travancore “Dharma Raja” as the
dynasty dedicated the whole wealth of a vast kingdom at their service.  As
the land became Dharma Rajya the kings automatically turned to mere
overseers of the Brahmanic kingdom and wealth.  Even the official historian
P Sankunni Menon had to raise the question that instead of spending huge
revenue to such rituals Travancore must spend public revenue for public
works and public education.  A Sreedhara Menon also makes it clear that the
state income was mostly used for the welfare of the Brahmans in *Trivandrum
District Gazetteer* (page 202-03).

The kings were ensuring Brahmanic sanction and thereby the
*Dharmasastra* legitimacy
to the kingdom through this acts of devotion to the lord Sri Padmanabha and
the lords of the land or Bhudevas, the Brahmans.  This historic background
differentiates Travancore from other princely states and Sri Padmanabha
temple from other temples.  On the one hand Travancore kingdom became the
material domain of Sri Padmanabha and on the other hand the temple became
the spiritual domain of the kingdom.   The material existence of the temple
became inevitable for the rule of the kings and the regime became
religious.  The rule of the kings in Travancore became a rule done for the
temple and in its name.  This religious regime could be termed as a
Padmanabha Dharma.  It represented a mutual symbiotic bond in which the
state was merged in the temple and the temple in the state.  It also shows
that as the temple has rights and claims over the state; the state in turn
holds rights and claims over the temple.

P Sankunni Menon writes about the last decree of Marthanda Varma in 1758.
“The kingdom dedicated to the lord must not be taken back on any ground.
Conquered land must be dedicated to the lord in future as well.  All the
financial assistances to the temple and related institutions must be
continued unhindered” (*History of Travancore*, 136).  The kingdom and all
its properties and assets were made the property of the temple and its deity
(Bhandaram Vaka in Malayalam).  That is why the royal officials were called
Pandaram Karyakar.  Even the border check posts and provinces were called
Mandapathum Vathukal  (entrance to the divine domain)as they were the
premises of the temple.Political power and religious power became
inseparable in Travancore. So was the interconnection between the state and
the temple.  It became a new structural re-adjustment of the old temple
centered socia

Re: [GreenYouth] Post from Venugopalan K M

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It was a *Brahmin *TPSunderarajan who petitioned the court to open the
vaults of the temple and take stock of its content. That the litigant was a
Brahmin is to be underlined. On the contrary, think of a situation that a
Lower caste (not Shudra, anyways) had approached the court for the same sort
of purpose. I doubt whether the Results would've been the same. There are
also chances that the issue would've vbeen dealt in a entirely different way
by the Sudra media (and its columnists- writers.. )
In fact, the caste-criteria of inventory list makers may also be considered.
Doesn't it also mark the ciritical limits of Temple Entry Proclamation so
cherished by the Left and advocates of Kerala Rennaissance. The Shudra
hegemony will conveniently dissuade any thought in that direction.


2011/7/15 sunil kumar 

> *Take over unearthed wealth from the Nilavara of Sree Padmanabha Temle.
> Utilize the wealth for the welfare of Dalits, Women and the poor.
>
> Kerala Dalit Maha Sabha organizes
>
> Sayahna Dharna
>
> At Kerala High Court Junction, Ernakulam
> on 19th July, 4 pm
>
>
> Take over unearthed wealth from the Nilavara of Sree Padmanabha Temle.
> Utilize the wealth for the welfare of Dalits, Women and the poor. Swamy
> Viswa Bhadrananda Shakthi Bhodi will inaugurate. Speakers: K Ambujakshan
> (State President, KDMS), AD. K S Madhusoodanan (Chairman, Sahodarya
> Prasthanam), Rekha raj, P P Santhosh, P K Santhosh Kumar.
>
> Programme notice attatched.
> *
> 2011/7/15 damodar prasad 
>
>> ശെരിയാണ്‌ ..
>> എന്നാല്‍ സൂരജിന്  എന്റെ  അഭിവാദങ്ങള്‍
>>
>>
>> 2011/7/15 Anivar Aravind 
>>
>>> സൂരജിന്റെ ബസ്സ് റീഷെയറിയാണിത്.  വേണുഗോപാലന്റെ പ്രതികരണമല്ല
>>>
>>> 2011/7/15 damodar prasad :
>>> > "ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ ശ്രീകോവിലില്‍ കടവിറങ്ങുന്ന ബാക്കി മൈരുകളൊക്കെ
>>> > രാജാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ സുവര്‍ണകാലമോര്‍ത്ത് കോള്‍മൈരുകൊണ്ടിരുപ്പാണ്‌"
>>> > വേണുഗോപാലന്‍,
>>> > ഇതിലും  കൃത്യമായൊരു  പ്രതികരണം  വേറെയില്ല..
>>> > 2011/7/15 Venugopalan K M 
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>  Link to this post:
>>> >>>  https://profiles.google.com/kmvenuannur/posts/MqwPLQaeAMs
>>> >>>
>>> >>> 1:22 pm Venugopalan K M: പദ്മനാഭക്ഷേത്രത്തിലെ നിധി വിഷയത്തില്‍
>>> ചരിത്രത്തെ
>>> >>> രാഷ്ട്രീയമായി (ശരിയായി) സമീപിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് പ്രസ്താവന നടത്തിയെ ഏക
>>> >>> രാഷ്ട്രീയവ്യക്തിത്വം കോവളം എം.എല്‍.ഏ ജമീല പ്രകാശമാണ്‌. സത്യം വിളിച്ച്
>>> >>> പറയാന്‍ എല്ലുറപ്പില്ലാതെ സിപിഎം-സിപി‌ഐ പാര്‍ട്ടികളുടെ എമ്മെല്ലേമാര്‍
>>> >>> വായുമ്പൊളിച്ച് ഇരിക്കുന്ന സമയത്ത് ജമീലാമ്മ പറഞ്ഞത് ഇങ്ങനെ :
>>> >>>
>>> >>> "ക്ഷേത്രത്തിലെ നിലവറകളില്‍ നിന്ന്‌ കണ്ടെടുത്ത നിധി രാജകുടുംബത്തിന്റെ
>>> >>> സ്വത്തല്ല. പൂര്‍‌വികരില്‍ നിന്ന് പണ്ടുകാലത്ത്‌ ജനങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്ന്‌
>>> തലക്കരവും
>>> >>> മുലക്കരവും പിരിച്ചുണ്ടാക്കിയതാണ്‌ ഈ സമ്പത്ത്. അത് പൊതുസ്വത്തായി
>>> >>> പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുകയും ബാങ്ക്‌ നിക്ഷേപമാക്കി ജനോപകാരപ്രവര്‍ത്തനങ്ങള്‍ക്ക്‌
>>> >>> വിനിയോഗിക്കുകയുമാണു വേണ്ടത്." (നേരിട്ടുള്ള വാചകങ്ങളല്ല, ചാനല്‍
>>> >>> റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ടില്‍ നിന്ന് സംഗ്രഹിച്ചത്)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ഈ അഭിപ്രായം തുറന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ എം.എല്‍.ഏയുടെ വീട്ടിലേക്ക് ഹിന്ദു ഐക്യ
>>> >>> വേദിക്കാര്‍ പ്രതിഷേധപ്രകടനം നടത്തിയ വാര്‍ത്ത മാ.ഭൂമി തിരുവനന്തപുരം
>>> പ്രാദേശിക
>>> >>> പേജില്‍ കണ്ടു.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ ശ്രീകോവിലില്‍ കടവിറങ്ങുന്ന ബാക്കി മൈരുകളൊക്കെ
>>> >>> രാജാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ സുവര്‍ണകാലമോര്‍ത്ത് കോള്‍മൈരുകൊണ്ടിരുപ്പാണ്‌
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Re: [GreenYouth] Post from Venugopalan K M

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ശെരിയാണ്‌ ..
എന്നാല്‍ സൂരജിന്  എന്റെ  അഭിവാദങ്ങള്‍

2011/7/15 Anivar Aravind 

> സൂരജിന്റെ ബസ്സ് റീഷെയറിയാണിത്.  വേണുഗോപാലന്റെ പ്രതികരണമല്ല
>
> 2011/7/15 damodar prasad :
> > "ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ ശ്രീകോവിലില്‍ കടവിറങ്ങുന്ന ബാക്കി മൈരുകളൊക്കെ
> > രാജാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ സുവര്‍ണകാലമോര്‍ത്ത് കോള്‍മൈരുകൊണ്ടിരുപ്പാണ്‌"
> > വേണുഗോപാലന്‍,
> > ഇതിലും  കൃത്യമായൊരു  പ്രതികരണം  വേറെയില്ല..
> > 2011/7/15 Venugopalan K M 
> >>
> >>
> >>>  Link to this post:
> >>>  https://profiles.google.com/kmvenuannur/posts/MqwPLQaeAMs
> >>>
> >>> 1:22 pm Venugopalan K M: പദ്മനാഭക്ഷേത്രത്തിലെ നിധി വിഷയത്തില്‍
> ചരിത്രത്തെ
> >>> രാഷ്ട്രീയമായി (ശരിയായി) സമീപിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് പ്രസ്താവന നടത്തിയെ ഏക
> >>> രാഷ്ട്രീയവ്യക്തിത്വം കോവളം എം.എല്‍.ഏ ജമീല പ്രകാശമാണ്‌. സത്യം വിളിച്ച്
> >>> പറയാന്‍ എല്ലുറപ്പില്ലാതെ സിപിഎം-സിപി‌ഐ പാര്‍ട്ടികളുടെ എമ്മെല്ലേമാര്‍
> >>> വായുമ്പൊളിച്ച് ഇരിക്കുന്ന സമയത്ത് ജമീലാമ്മ പറഞ്ഞത് ഇങ്ങനെ :
> >>>
> >>> "ക്ഷേത്രത്തിലെ നിലവറകളില്‍ നിന്ന്‌ കണ്ടെടുത്ത നിധി രാജകുടുംബത്തിന്റെ
> >>> സ്വത്തല്ല. പൂര്‍‌വികരില്‍ നിന്ന് പണ്ടുകാലത്ത്‌ ജനങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്ന്‌
> തലക്കരവും
> >>> മുലക്കരവും പിരിച്ചുണ്ടാക്കിയതാണ്‌ ഈ സമ്പത്ത്. അത് പൊതുസ്വത്തായി
> >>> പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുകയും ബാങ്ക്‌ നിക്ഷേപമാക്കി ജനോപകാരപ്രവര്‍ത്തനങ്ങള്‍ക്ക്‌
> >>> വിനിയോഗിക്കുകയുമാണു വേണ്ടത്." (നേരിട്ടുള്ള വാചകങ്ങളല്ല, ചാനല്‍
> >>> റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ടില്‍ നിന്ന് സംഗ്രഹിച്ചത്)
> >>>
> >>> ഈ അഭിപ്രായം തുറന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ എം.എല്‍.ഏയുടെ വീട്ടിലേക്ക് ഹിന്ദു ഐക്യ
> >>> വേദിക്കാര്‍ പ്രതിഷേധപ്രകടനം നടത്തിയ വാര്‍ത്ത മാ.ഭൂമി തിരുവനന്തപുരം
> പ്രാദേശിക
> >>> പേജില്‍ കണ്ടു.
> >>>
> >>> ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ ശ്രീകോവിലില്‍ കടവിറങ്ങുന്ന ബാക്കി മൈരുകളൊക്കെ
> >>> രാജാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ സുവര്‍ണകാലമോര്‍ത്ത് കോള്‍മൈരുകൊണ്ടിരുപ്പാണ്‌
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Re: [GreenYouth] Post from Venugopalan K M

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"ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ ശ്രീകോവിലില്‍ കടവിറങ്ങുന്ന ബാക്കി മൈരുകളൊക്കെ
രാജാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ സുവര്‍ണകാലമോര്‍ത്ത് കോള്‍മൈരുകൊണ്ടിരുപ്പാണ്‌"
വേണുഗോപാലന്‍,
ഇതിലും  കൃത്യമായൊരു  പ്രതികരണം  വേറെയില്ല..

2011/7/15 Venugopalan K M 

>
>
>  Link to this post:
>>  https://profiles.google.com/kmvenuannur/posts/MqwPLQaeAMs
>>
>> 1:22 pm *Venugopalan K M:* പദ്മനാഭക്ഷേത്രത്തിലെ നിധി വിഷയത്തില്‍
>> ചരിത്രത്തെ രാഷ്ട്രീയമായി (ശരിയായി) സമീപിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് പ്രസ്താവന നടത്തിയെ ഏക
>> രാഷ്ട്രീയവ്യക്തിത്വം കോവളം എം.എല്‍.ഏ ജമീല പ്രകാശമാണ്‌. സത്യം വിളിച്ച്
>> പറയാന്‍ എല്ലുറപ്പില്ലാതെ സിപിഎം-സിപി‌ഐ പാര്‍ട്ടികളുടെ എമ്മെല്ലേമാര്‍
>> വായുമ്പൊളിച്ച് ഇരിക്കുന്ന സമയത്ത് ജമീലാമ്മ പറഞ്ഞത് ഇങ്ങനെ :
>>
>> "ക്ഷേത്രത്തിലെ നിലവറകളില്‍ നിന്ന്‌ കണ്ടെടുത്ത നിധി രാജകുടുംബത്തിന്റെ
>> സ്വത്തല്ല. പൂര്‍‌വികരില്‍ നിന്ന് പണ്ടുകാലത്ത്‌ ജനങ്ങളില്‍ നിന്ന്‌ തലക്കരവും
>> മുലക്കരവും പിരിച്ചുണ്ടാക്കിയതാണ്‌ ഈ സമ്പത്ത്. അത് പൊതുസ്വത്തായി
>> പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുകയും ബാങ്ക്‌ നിക്ഷേപമാക്കി ജനോപകാരപ്രവര്‍ത്തനങ്ങള്‍ക്ക്‌
>> വിനിയോഗിക്കുകയുമാണു വേണ്ടത്." (നേരിട്ടുള്ള വാചകങ്ങളല്ല, ചാനല്‍
>> റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ടില്‍ നിന്ന് സംഗ്രഹിച്ചത്)
>>
>> ഈ അഭിപ്രായം തുറന്ന് പറഞ്ഞ എം.എല്‍.ഏയുടെ വീട്ടിലേക്ക് ഹിന്ദു ഐക്യ
>> വേദിക്കാര്‍ പ്രതിഷേധപ്രകടനം നടത്തിയ വാര്‍ത്ത മാ.ഭൂമി തിരുവനന്തപുരം പ്രാദേശിക
>> പേജില്‍ കണ്ടു.
>>
>> ജനാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ ശ്രീകോവിലില്‍ കടവിറങ്ങുന്ന ബാക്കി മൈരുകളൊക്കെ
>> രാജാധിപത്യത്തിന്റെ സുവര്‍ണകാലമോര്‍ത്ത് കോള്‍മൈരുകൊണ്ടിരുപ്പാണ്‌
>>
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[GreenYouth] M. F. HUSAIN – 1915 – 2011 By Sadanand Menon

[damodar prasad]

M. F. HUSAIN – 1915 – 2011**

** **

WHEN THE NATION LOSES ITS OWN NARRATIVE

** **

By Sadanand Menon

** **

Most media tributes to Maqbool Fida Husain, the flamboyant senior citizen of
Indian modern art who passed away, aged 95, in a London hospital on June 9,
refer to him has encapsulating the ‘spirit of freedom’. The philosopher
Ramachandra Gandhi used to characterize him as being “as free as a child”. I
also remember seeing, some years ago, a BBC interview with Husain, where the
anchor Karan Thapar repeatedly described this artist as representing “a life
of freedom” and of “being a free spirit”. The rather unthinking repetition
of this sentiment upon his death five years into his induced exile from
India by a combination of obscurantism, ignorance, intolerance and the
impotence of our legal and administrative systems, necessitates a closer
examination of this category of ‘freedom’ and where the artist figures in
that discourse.

** **

The painter/photographer/filmmaker who straddled the over sixty-years’
post-Independence canvas of the nation with his mercurial imagination, deft
strokes and mordant wit came to be celebrated as its primary ‘visual
representer’, its modern-day Veda Vyasa-like narrator, easily absorbing into
his giant canvases all the floating symbols of national culture that were in
currency. Art historian Geeta Kapur even profiles him as the “modern-day *
sutradhar*” of the vast proscenium of the nation. Today he is posited as a
tragic ‘cultural hero’ of a nation where it has, indeed, become facetious to
speak of such heroes.

** **

The moment is somber and we could do with a serious self-evaluation of where
we stand as a nation with respect to our arts. The hounding out of a 90
years old painter who was constantly striving to make us look at ourselves
from a multi-cultural, secular, syncretic perspective, and failing to ensure
his return before he passed away five years later, should worry us about
where we are heading towards as a nation. The fact that India could not see
itself through the eyes of Husain and, instead, interpreted his epiphanic
invocation and celebration of our civilizational diversity as something
narrow and divisive, merely points to the rapid thickening and blocking of
our national arteries, constricting the openness we so hypocritically assume
as our cultural credo and hastening the spread of iron in the soul.

** **

It is a pretty good indicator of what little conversation contemporary ideas
are having in a society still resisting the call of modernity. It is also
symptomatic of the almost total absence of a discourse of the imagination in
civil society. Everywhere we are surrounded with the unseemly spectacle of
squabble and noise in the political space, unleavened by poetry and grace.
The administration, the judiciary, the media and the community seem to have
all succumbed to an overarching crudity of expression and interpretation.
Over and above this is the violence and non-egalitarian impulse of
globalization which seems to be transforming us into a deeply uncaring
society with those touched by its benefits turning a Nelson-eye on those
dumped at the margins. All the claims of high art ring hollow here. Husain
too did not see and dwell on any of this ongoing strife. His was primarily a
pacifying vision.

** **

The life and times of Husain – specifically the past fifteen years – should
make us realize that in this era of globalization, one can no longer speak
of the artist as a ‘cultural hero’, a baggage that was an inheritance of the
nationalist phase which even assigned a role to the artist (the *kalakaar*)
as the quintessence of all that was innocent, pure and idealistic in the
emerging nation-state. The artist was romanticized as the ‘voice of the
people’ for possessing virtues like ‘clean eyes’ and ‘pure intent’. It is
not difficult to imagine a group of Bombay-based painters (including Husain)
in 1947, led by Francis Newton Souza, declaring themselves the ‘Progressive
Artists Group’. Just a couple of years earlier, another Madras-based group
led by K.C.S. Panicker had called itself the ‘Progressive Artists
Association’. The artist at that moment could not have been anything, if not
progressive. Today that entire edifice stands undermined, with the much
touted ‘freedom’ of the artist increasingly translating into the freedom to
conform.

** **

‘Freedom’ can only be a political category. It cannot be diluted into an
advertisement gimmick or a catchy slogan like they use for soaps or sanitary
towels or soft drinks. Nor can it be a category for elite self-indulgence
where ‘freedom’ is interpreted as license. It is not a primitive naturalism
associated with open spaces and open skies; neither is it a privilege that a
few impose on the many. Freedom, by its very connotation is a product of
struggle, tension, opposition. It is a quality that all forms of social
organization militate against. It is also a condition, to defi

Re: [GreenYouth] Ayodhya Verdict: A Different View

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Peace is Doabale!
Now you get the correct semantics of it!!

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Afthab Ellath  wrote:

> Is this a different view? Or is this a Hindu view articulated in plenty
> everywhere? When Muslim rights are violated it is better to think and
> discuss about "more gripping issue of price rise, economic exploitation and
> hunger so that their shops can do business" as "country should move forward
> and confront the real issue being faced by it than being bogged down on an
> issue like mandir-mosque controversy"..
>
> Good...
>
>
> Afthab Ellath
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Sukla Sen  wrote:
>
>> [As quite a few have already pointed out that the (majority) judgement
>>
>> is a move towards a (pragmatic and political) deal. Though Justice
>> Khan's judgement does not constitute the median, his opinion perhaps
>> captures that spirit best.
>> Strict legalities have been given a go by keeping in view the possible
>> consequences.
>>
>> Evidently strict/radical secularism cannot be implemented in a country
>> where civil society is largely (and quite intensely) non-secular, just
>> because the constitution swears by secular principles.
>> That could be highly counterproductive and even disastrous.
>> Any attempt to remove the idol of Ram from where it is currently
>> lodged could very well again spark off reenactment of the macabre
>> drama of the eighties and nineties.
>> One can hardly afford to ignore that. At least not those who remain in
>> touch with the ground realities even while nurturing their own secular
>> aspirations.
>>
>> It is time to move on.
>> One has got to seek a shift in the terrain (of confrontations).]
>>
>> *Statement of Editorial Board of Other Aspect on Ayodhya Verdict*
>>
>> The editorial board of journal the Other Aspect welcomes the verdict given
>> by the Allahabad High Court on 30th of September 2010. There could have
>> been no better solution to this dispute. The judgemnt by providing
>> 1/3rd portion of the disputed land to the three contending parties has
>> tried to amicably solve this ongoing contentious issue which is more
>> related to the sentiments of both the communities rather than
>> confirming to any legal status.
>>
>> Unfortunately some Left leaning and Leftist intellectuals and parties are
>> terming the judgement as one that /“smacks of the consensus formula”/,
>> this is irresponsible statement as there could have been no judgment
>> without taking all the parties in confidence, let us remember that the
>> Ayodhya issue was more of a religious sentimental issue rather than
>> something more earthly or logical. Till majority of the people are
>> enmeshed in religiosity there could have been no other way but to
>> divide the place and solve the problem once for all. It is to be
>> remembered that a judgement cannot only take place based on the legal
>> aspect of evidence and statutes but has to take wider aspect of
>> people’s wishes, else the judgement would be nothing but mere
>> collection of words. In this case the judges have taken in
>> consideration the ancient Indian culture of Sarva Dharam sambhav, and
>> in this manner it should be accepted
>>
>> Our friends who are opposing the verdict on basis of the fact the
>> Babri mosque was demolished in 1992 and the guilty of 1992 must be
>> punished should remember that there is another court case pending for
>> the same and the verdict is still to come. The present verdict has
>> come on the ownership of the land at the disputed site and the first
>> litigation was filed way back in 1885, when Mahant Raghubar Ram moved to the
>> courts for permission to erect a temple just outside the Babri Mosque
>> premises. Further the Archaeological Survey of India had found
>> evidence of temple beneath the mosque but had not found any evidence
>> of its destruction, the area has the same sentimental value for vast number
>> Hindus as the Mecca has for Muslims and Vatican for the Catholics.
>>
>> The left leaders and intellectuals by their opposition to the
>> judgement are only playing in hands of the communal forces that are
>> bent on taking the country back to the times of communal carnage that
>> happened in 1992. They want to divert the attention of the masses from
>> the more gripping issue of price rise, economic exploitation and
>> hunger so that their shops can do business. The Left, unfortunately,
>> history is witness whenever has sided with the communal (both majority
>> and minority) forces have bore a massive brunt for its folly.
>> Unfortunately it seems they have forgotten this.
>>
>> It is high time that the country should move forward and confront the
>> real issue being faced by it than being bogged down on an issue like
>> mandir-mosque controversy. Let us bury Ayodhya dispute once for all
>> and move forward.
>>
>>   This is the call of the 21st century. This is the call of worker's and
>> peasants of the country!
>>
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[GreenYouth] 8 CJIs corrupt: Ex-law minister to SC

[damodar prasad]

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/8-cjis-corrupt-exlaw-minister-to-sc/682677/0


Octogenarian lawyer and former law minister Shanti Bhushan on Thursday
“publicly stated” that of the last 16 Chief Justices of India, eight were
“definitely corrupt”, and went on to urge the Supreme Court to send him to
jail for “contempt”.

Bhushan declared this in an application filed on Thursday seeking to implead
himself in an ongoing legal action against his son Prashant Bhushan, also a
lawyer, for making in a media interview allegedly contemptuous statements
against the integrity of SC judges, including questioning the past judicial
conduct of Justice S H Kapadia, currently Chief Justice of India, in the
Vedanta case.

Shanti Bhushan’s application follows a decision by a three-judge Special
Bench, led by Justice Altamas Kabir, recently to go ahead with the contempt
action against Prashant Bhushan despite the latter explaining to the Bench
that he holds Justice Kapadia to be a “judge of financial integrity”.


Defending Prashant’s statements, Shanti Bhushan, who was law minister in the
Morarji Desai Cabinet, challenged that his own public statement that “out of
the last 16 Chief Justices of India, eight of them are definitely corrupt”
in today’s application would make him, along with Prashant, liable for
contempt. He asked the apex court to try him along with Prashant so that “he
(Shanti) is also suitably punished for this contempt”.

“The applicant (Shanti) would consider it a great honour to spend time in
jail for making an effort to get for the people of India an honest and clean
judiciary,” the senior advocate claimed in his application.

“The applicant submits that since the questions arising in this case affects
the judiciary as a whole, the petition needs to be decided by the entire
court and not merely by three judges handpicked by a Chief Justice,” he
demanded.

Shanti Bhushan has filed a sealed envelope the names of 16 judges, out of
which he is of the “opinion that eight were definitely corrupt, six were
definitely honest and about the remaining two, a definite opinion cannot be
expressed whether they were honest or corrupt”. The list of 16 CJIs,
according to the application, starts with Justice Ranganath Mishra through
to Justice Y K Sabharwal.

The application says there is a “common perception” that judiciary uses the
power of contempt to silence anyone trying to bring judicial corruption into
the public domain.

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Re: [GreenYouth] തെറ്റിദ്ധരി പ്പിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന ദാറ ുല്‍ ഖദാ

[damodar prasad]

Interesting Aftab..
Could you pls elaborate a little more on Islamophilia in the contxt of this
article?

2010/8/12 Afthab Ellath 

> Like Islamophobia, Islamophilia is also doesnt capture the truth about
> muslims, and both are damaging to Muslims...I am talking about the tone of
> the article, not about Dar-ul-Khada...
>
> Afthab Ellath
>
>
> 2010/8/11 reny ayline 
>
> *തെറ്റിദ്ധരിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന ദാറുല്‍ ഖദാ
>> *thejas 11 august 2010
>>
>> *മൗലവി കെ എം മുഹമ്മദ്‌ ഈസാ
>> *മുസ്‌ലിം സമുദായത്തില്‍പ്പെട്ടവര്‍ ആരെങ്കിലും ഒരു നല്ല കാര്യവുമായി
>> രംഗത്തുവന്നാല്‍ അതിനെ അധിക്ഷേപിക്കാനും അവഹേളിക്കാനും ഒരുവിഭാഗം
>> സന്നദ്ധരാവുന്നുവെന്നതു നിര്‍ഭാഗ്യകരമായ വസ്‌തുതയാണ്‌. ലോക മുസ്‌ലിംകളെ
>> തീവ്രവാദികളായി മുദ്രകുത്തി ഉച്ഛാടനം ചെയ്യാന്‍ അധിനിവേശശക്തികള്‍ അഹോരാത്രം
>> പരിശ്രമിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ മുസ്‌ലിംകളെ മുഴുവന്‍ ഭീകരവാദികളും
>> വിഘടനവാദികളുമാക്കി മാറ്റാന്‍ സംഘപരിവാരം പ്രചാരണം നടത്തുന്നു. ഇപ്പോള്‍ ഭരണം
>> നിയന്ത്രിക്കുന്ന കോണ്‍ഗ്രസ്‌ കക്ഷി കഷ്ടിച്ചു മുസ്‌ലിംലീഗിനെ
>> തീവ്രവാദികളില്‍നിന്ന്‌ ഒഴിച്ചുനിര്‍ത്താന്‍ തയ്യാറാവുന്നുണെ്‌ടങ്കിലും
>> ഫാഷിസ്റ്റ്‌ പ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങള്‍ അവരെയും വര്‍ഗീയവാദികളും തീവ്രവാദികളുമായി
>> അടച്ചാക്ഷേപിച്ചുകൊണ്‌ടിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇതിലേറെ പരിതാപകരമായിട്ടുള്ളത്‌,
>> ചെറുതാണെങ്കിലും മുസ്‌ലിംകളില്‍ ഒരുവിഭാഗം മറ്റൊരു വിഭാഗത്തെ തീവ്രവാദികളെന്ന്‌
>> ആക്ഷേപിച്ചു പരസ്യപ്രസ്‌താവന നടത്തുകയും അവരുടെ തകര്‍ച്ച കാണാന്‍
>> നോമ്പുനോറ്റുകൊണ്‌ടിരിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നുവെന്നതാണ്‌. `ആഹാരം
>> കഴിച്ചുകൊണ്‌ടിരിക്കുന്നവര്‍ തങ്ങളുടെ ഭക്ഷണത്തളികയിലോട്ട്‌ ക്ഷണിക്കുന്നതുപോലെ
>> നിങ്ങള്‍ക്കെതിരേ സമൂഹങ്ങള്‍' കൈകോര്‍ക്കുമെന്ന ലോകാനുഗ്രഹിയായ പ്രവാചകന്റെ
>> വചനം സമൂഹം ഒന്നടങ്കം വിസ്‌മരിക്കുന്നു. `തീവ്രവാദം, തീവ്രവാദം' എന്നു വാതോരാതെ
>> പറഞ്ഞുകൊണ്‌ടിരിക്കുന്നവരാരും തന്നെ തീവ്രവാദം എന്നാലെന്ത്‌ എന്നു
>> വിശദീകരിച്ചിട്ടില്ല. മുസ്‌ലിംസമൂഹത്തിനു നേരെ തീവ്രവാദം ആരോപിക്കുന്നവരാരും
>> അതെന്തെന്നു വ്യക്തമാക്കിയതായി കാണുന്നില്ല. മനുഷ്യരുടെ നേരെ നിര്‍ദാക്ഷിണ്യം
>> ബോംബെറിഞ്ഞ്‌ അരുംകൊല നടത്താനും മാരകമായി മുറിവേല്‍പ്പിക്കാനും
>> ജീവച്ഛവമാക്കാനും ആയുധമെടുക്കാനും സന്നദ്ധരാവുന്നതാണ്‌ തീവ്രവാദമെങ്കില്‍ ആ
>> നാമം ചാര്‍ത്തിക്കൊടുക്കാന്‍ ഏറ്റവും അര്‍ഹരായിട്ടുള്ളത്‌ ഇവിടത്തെ
>> രാഷ്ട്രീയക്കാരും സംഘപരിവാരവുമാണ്‌. ഇക്കൂട്ടര്‍ ഇവിടെ നടത്തിയിട്ടുള്ള
>> കൊലയ്‌ക്കും കൊള്ളിവയ്‌പിനും കണക്കില്ല. കണ്ണൂര്‍ ജില്ലയെ തന്നെ ഇക്കൂട്ടര്‍
>> കൊലക്കളമാക്കിയിരിക്കുകയാണ്‌. തീവ്രവാദവും ഭീകരവാദവും വിഘടനവാദവും ഇസ്‌ലാമിന്‌
>> അന്യമാണെന്ന കാര്യം വ്യക്തമാക്കിക്കൊള്ളട്ടെ. അത്തരക്കാര്‍ എന്റെ
>> സമുദായത്തില്‍പ്പെട്ടവരല്ലെന്നു മുഹമ്മദ്‌ നബി വ്യക്തമാക്കിയിരിക്കെ, ഒരു
>> മുസല്‍മാന്‍ എങ്ങനെ തീവ്രവാദിയാവും; അവനെങ്ങനെ ഭീകരവാദിയാവും?
>> ദൗര്‍ഭാഗ്യവശാല്‍, ഇവിടെ പ്രവാചകനിന്ദ നടത്തിയ ഒരു കോളജധ്യാപകനു നേരെ
>> ആക്രമണമുണ്‌ടായി. അങ്ങനെ ചെയ്യാന്‍ ഒരു സംഘടനയും കല്‍പ്പിക്കുകയോ
>> പ്രേരിപ്പിക്കുകയോ ചെയ്‌തിട്ടില്ല എന്നാണറിയുന്നത്‌. അതിനെത്തുടര്‍ന്നു
>> ഭീകരാന്തരീക്ഷം സൃഷ്ടിക്കപ്പെട്ടു. സര്‍ക്കാരും പോലിസും മുസ്‌ലിംസമൂഹത്തെ
>> ഒന്നടങ്കം പീഡിപ്പിക്കുന്നു. മുസ്‌ലിംഭവനങ്ങളില്‍ വ്യാപകമായ റെയ്‌ഡ്‌ നടന്നു.
>> സമൂഹത്തിലെ ഒരു വിഭാഗം സ്‌ത്രീസമൂഹം ഭയന്നുവിറച്ചു. നല്ലവരായ മുസ്‌ലിംകള്‍ക്കു
>> പോലും ഇവിടെ മാന്യമായി ജീവിക്കാന്‍ കഴിയാത്ത സ്ഥിതിവിശേഷം സംജാതമായി.
>> കൈവെട്ടുകേസില്‍ യഥാര്‍ഥ കുറ്റവാളികളെ കണ്‌ടുപിടിക്കാന്‍ ഇവിടെ പോലിസ്‌
>> സംവിധാനം ഉണ്‌ടായിരിക്കെ എന്തിനാണ്‌ ഇങ്ങനെ അനാവശ്യമായ പ്രകോപനമുണ്‌ടാക്കിയത്‌?
>> കൈവെട്ടുകേസിന്‌ കാരണമായി ജുഗുപ്‌സാവഹമായ സംഭവമുണ്‌ടായി.
>> ശാന്തമായിക്കഴിഞ്ഞിരുന്ന കേരളമക്കളുടെ സമാധാനജീവിതത്തിനു
>> ഭംഗമുണ്‌ടാക്കിയതിനെതിരേ പ്രതികരിക്കാന്‍ ഇവിടത്തെ രാഷ്ട്രീയക്കാരെ കണ്‌ടില്ല;
>> വാര്‍ത്തകള്‍ നിര്‍മിക്കാന്‍ പരക്കംപാഞ്ഞ്‌ അസത്യം വിളമ്പിയ
>> മാധ്യമപ്രവര്‍ത്തകരെ കണ്‌ടില്ല. ഐക്യത്തിലും സമാധാനത്തിലും ഏകോപന
>> സമുദായങ്ങളെപ്പോലെ കഴിഞ്ഞുകൂടിയിരുന്ന സമുദായങ്ങള്‍ക്കിടയില്‍ അനൈക്യത്തിന്റെ
>> വിത്തു പാകാനല്ലാതെ ഈ പ്രഫസറെക്കൊണ്‌ട്‌ എന്തു സാധിച്ചു? വിവേകം നശിക്കാത്തവര്‍
>> ചിന്തിക്കട്ടെ.
>> മനസ്സിനു മുറിവേറ്റ്‌ വികാരത്തിന്‌ അടിപ്പെട്ട ചില ചെറുപ്പക്കാര്‍ നടത്തിയ
>> അക്രമപ്രവൃത്തിയെ സ്വാഗതം ചെയ്യാന്‍ മുസ്‌ലിം സമുദായത്തിലെ ഒരു പ്രസ്ഥാനവും
>> ഉണ്‌ടായില്ല. അവര്‍ക്കാരും പ്രോല്‍സാഹനവുമേകിയില്ല. മറിച്ച്‌, സമൂഹം
>> ഒറ്റക്കെട്ടായി അതിനെ പഴിക്കുകയാണു ചെയ്‌തത്‌. ഈ സംഭവത്തെ തുടര്‍ന്ന്‌ ഇവിടത്തെ
>> ദൃശ്യ-വാര്‍ത്താമാധ്യമങ്ങള്‍ `ദാറുല്‍ ഖദാ' എന്ന മഹത്തായ പ്രസ്ഥാനത്തെയും
>> വലിച്ചിഴച്ചു. അതിനെ തെറ്റിദ്ധരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന നിലയിലുള്ള നിരവധി വാര്‍ത്തകള്‍
>> മാധ്യമങ്ങളില്‍ പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുകയുണ്‌ടായി. സത്യവുമായി പ്രസ്‌തുത
>> വാര്‍ത്തകള്‍ക്കു പുലബന്ധം പോലും ഉണ്‌ടായിരുന്നില്ല. താലിബാന്‍ കോടതി, സമാന്തര
>> കോടതി എന്നൊക്കെ വിശേഷിപ്പിക്കുന്ന കല്ലുവച്ച നുണകളായിരുന്നു മാധ്യമങ്ങളില്‍
>> കുറേദിവസം പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെട്ടത്‌. പത്രമാധ്യമങ്ങളുടെ മഹത്തായ പാരമ്പര്യങ്ങളെ
>> ചിലര്‍ ക്രൂശിച്ചു. പത്രധര്‍മം കുഴിച്ചുമൂടപ്പെട്ടു. ദാറുല്‍ ഖദാ താലിബാന്‍
>> കോടതിയല്ല, സമാന്തര കോടതിയുമല്ല എന്ന കാര്യം ആധികാരികമായിത്തന്നെ
>> വ്യക്തമാക്കിക്കൊള്ളട്ടെ. പേര്‌ വിളിച്ചോതുന്നതുപോലെ അതു പ്രശ്‌നപരിഹാര
>> സഭയാണ്‌; രാജ്യത്തെ നിയമങ്ങള്‍ പിന്തുണ നല്‍കുന്ന ആര്‍ബിട്രേഷന്‍ കൗണ്‍സില്‍.
>> സമുദായത്തിനിടയിലുണ്‌ടാവുന്ന വിവാഹം, വിവാഹമോചനം, വ്യവഹാരം തുടങ്ങിയ
>> പ്രശ്‌നങ്ങള്‍ രമ്യമായി പരിഹരിക്കാനുള്ള ഒരു വേദിയാണിത്‌.
>> പ്രശ്‌നപരിഹാരത്തിനായി ആരെയും നിര്‍ബന്ധിക്കാറില്ല. കക്ഷികളില്‍ നിന്നു പണവും
>> വസൂല്‍ ചെയ്യാറില്ല. ഉഭയകക്ഷികള്‍ സമീപിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ ഒരു മതപണ്ഡിതന്‍, ഒരു
>> നിയമജ്ഞന്‍, രണ്‌ടു പൗരപ്രധാനികള

Re: [GreenYouth] Shocked to know ... AIDS spread like this also.............]]

[damodar prasad]

ഇതൊക്കെ ശരിയായ വാര്‍ത്ത‍ തന്നെ ആണോ??

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:48 PM, reny ayline  wrote:

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> A 10 year old boy, had eaten pineapple about 15 days back, and fell
> sick, from the day he had eaten. Later when he had his Health check
> done.. doctors diagnosed that he had AIDS.
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> His parents couldn't believe it...Then the entire family under went a
> checkup... none of them suffered from Aids. So the doctors checked
> again with the boy if he had eaten out.The boy said 'Yes'. He had
> pineapple that evening. Immediately a group from the hospital went to
> the pineapple vendor to check. They found the pineapple seller had a
> cut on his finger while cutting the pineapple; his blood had spread
> into the fruit.
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> When they had his blood checked...the guy was suffering from
> AIDS...but he himself was NOT aware. Unfortunately the boy is now
> suffering from it.
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> Please take care while u eat on the road side (particularly tasty
> Vadapav & Paani Puri) and pls fwd this mail to your dear one's..
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Re: [GreenYouth] Pages from the Past: Ramachandra Guha on Arundhati Roy

[damodar prasad]

Ramachandra Guha's article is at least 10 years old. This article came in
the context of Arundathi Roy's involvement in Narmada struggle and her stern
articulations against the Hindu Bomb.
What relevance does this have now?
Does Mr. Sen wants to connect to Guha's obscure views with Arundathi Roy's
engagement with Maoists?
Mr. Guha claims himself to be Liberal. But this article only impress upon us
as a symptom og liberal tolerance.
To stretch a bit, I think Mr.Sukla Sen is building up a scenario in the
event of Mahaswetha Devi and Medha Patkar participating in the Lalgarh
meeting organized by TMC.

Guha now frequently comes in TV shows anchoring pop programmes on Best Ten
Dishes of Modern Indian Culiniary, Best 5 National ( and of course modern)
Gymansium Clubs etc...In that sense, he is a Celeb of POP TV.

In 2000, Guha's kind of pop/hybrid academic- journalism writing faced a
severe challenge from a diffferent sort of enunications like that we read in
Arundathi Roy. The Police Literatures of the kind, Guha was marketing faced
a market crisis as well. The market set back, pure envy and meanness arising
out of some kind of inferiority complex could be the real reason that must
have provoked Guha to write this stuff.

Added to the above reasons, it is also because of gradually developing
dementia that prompted  Sukla Sen to forward this article now. In that
Mr.Sen requires real sympathy and assistance.

In fact, Arun Shourie and Ramachandra Guha both claim access to the liberal
national modern Indian intellectual tradtion and its special kind of
ericture.

One important highlight of A.Roy's writing is that it could demolish the
tradition-ridden cliched, style of Guha kind of quasi-academic writings
couched in populust vocabulary and that which is intended only to promote a
Statist commonsense.


Prasad

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Sukla Sen  wrote:

> I/II.
> http://www.hindu.com/2000/11/26/stories/13260411.htm
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>  The Arun Shourie of
> the left
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> Celebrity endorsement of social movements is fraught with hazards. In the
> beginning, apart from inviting media attention, it may also draw to the
> cause previously silent bystanders ... Much depends on the kind of
> celebrity, says noted historian RAMACHANDRA GUHA.
>
> THE Narmada Bachao Andolan is only the last in a series of social movements
> against large dams. True, the spectacular schemes of the 1950s and 1960s -
> Bhakra, Hirakud, Tungabhadra and the like - came up with scarcely a sigh of
> protest. Villages in the way of the reservoir were made to depart in the
> name of "national interest". It took fully two decades for this national
> interest to be revealed as the specific interests of the urban-industrial
> elite. Thus the 1970s witnessed a series of popular struggles on behalf of
> the to-be dispossessed. There were movements against the Koel-Karo project
> in Bihar, the Subarnarekha project in Orissa and the Vishnuprayag and Tehri
> projects in Garhwal. These varied movements and the questions they raised
> inspired the editors of the Second Citizens' Report on the Indian
> Environment, published in 1985, to dedicate their labours to the "dam-
> displaced people of India".
>
> These movements were accompanied by intellectual critiques of the big dam
> idea. In 1981, the Gandhi Peace Foundation published a seminal document
> called Major Dams: A Second Look, based on a seminar held in Sirsi, in the
> Western Ghats of Karnataka. Then, in 1984, two college students, Ashish
> Kothari and Rajiv Bhartari, published a wide ranging critique of the Narmada
> Valley projects in the Economic and Political Weekly. After reading this
> essay, Medha Patkar was encouraged to move from social work in Mumbai to
> mobilising adivasis in Madhya Pradesh. The following year, the Annual Number
> of the Economic and Political Weekly printed an essay by Nirmal Sengupta
> entitled "Irrigation: Traditional versus Modern", an empirically rich and
> thoughtful analysis that made a strong case for the continuing relevance of
> indigenous methods of water harvesting. Sengupta's work in English was
> complemented by the superb field studies of water conservation published in
> Hindi by Anupam Mishra. Meanwhile, Pune economist Vijay Paranjype was
> conducting case studies of individual dams, which showed that the actual
> costs incurred in their construction generally exceeded their putative
> benefits.
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> These precocious works raised the basic issues so spiritedly taken up by
> the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA): social justice, environmental
> sustainability, economic efficiency and cultural survival. The movement
> brought to these old, and always relevant, issues, the vigour of a mass
> popular movement and the appeal of a charismatic leader. Through the 1980s
> and 1990s, the Andolan organised a series of strikes, fasts, processions,
> padayatras and rasta rokos, these held in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra,
> Gujara

[GreenYouth] Fourth catastrophe: UPENDRA BAXI

[damodar prasad]

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20100702271302500.htm


THE recent decision of Judge Mohan P. Tiwari is viewed as awarding a
piffling punishment and lavish due process treatment by granting bail to the
convicted seven UCIL officials. The Bhopal-violated communities of suffering
and rightless people already see in this the Fourth Bhopal Catastrophe in
the making. I avoid the term Bhopal ‘victims', because it denies the
unprecedented heroic agency and struggle of the Bhopal-violated. They cannot
help wondering why the current media and popular outrage was not at hand in
the first three catastrophes. The DNA of the fourth catastrophe needs to be
decoded via some consideration of the executive and judicial authorship of
the preceding three catastrophes.

*The First Bhopal Catastrophe*

This occurred on December 3, 1984, with the explosive escape of 47 tonnes of
methyl isocyanate (MIC) from the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) and Union
Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) factory/plant located in a densely populated area
in Bhopal. UCC was a majority shareholder and for all purposes made key
operational decisions concerning the ultra-hazardous manufacture, storage
and safety, in blithe disregard of the best industry standards and of good
corporate governance.

The pre-trial discovery proceedings before United States District Judge John
F. Keenan, where for the first time a sovereign post-colonial state dared to
sue a mighty multinational corporation for causing an unprecedented mass
disaster, fully establish the fact that UCC preferred systematically to
ignore early warning signals of the potential of massive toxic release,
specially demonstrated by the 1982 gas ‘leak' that killed two workers and
its own subsequent in-house safety audit report that stressed the urgency of
the need for adequate safety systems at the Bhopal plant replicating the
state-of-the-art digitalised safety systems of the UCC West Virginia plant,
which produced and stored minuscule amounts of MIC compared with the Bhopal
plant.

It is also worth recalling that the plant was declared ‘safe' by the then
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Arjun Singh, whose culpability now begins
at last to be as seriously discussed as that of the UCC Chief Executive
Officer Warren Anderson. Incidentally, the Bhopal-violated heard from Jairam
Ramesh, the current Union Environment Minister, on the eve of the ‘Silver
Jubilee' of the first catastrophe that neither the subsoil nor the water was
contaminated by the residual toxicity of the MIC explosion! Eminent
political leaders who criticise Bhopal activists for dramatising the
environmental risk still aggravating the plight of the Bhopal-violated see
no harm in minimising the long-term lethal potential of Bhopal 1984. A
silver lining in the toxic cloud over the Bhopal-violated flickered bright
but only briefly. Via the Bhopal Ordinance, and later the Act, some of us
were able to persuade the Union of India to assume the responsibility of
prosecuting UCC in a U.S. court since it claimed that it was no longer under
Indian jurisdiction. Judge Keenan described the first catastrophe as the
largest peacetime industrial disaster, less colourfully than Justice Krishna
Iyer, who was to name it “Bhoposhima”.

The final result of this endeavour was to bring UCC back under Indian
jurisdiction. Ironically, while the Union of India argued that its own legal
system was not geared to deliver justice to the Bhopal-violated, Judge
Keenan insisted that it would constitute legal “imperialism” were he not to
recognise that the Indian judicial system had the capacity to stand “tall”
before the entire world.

Thus Judge Keenan, while constraining the UCC submission to Indian courts,
was careful to subject any future UCC liability to a later determination by
the New York equivalent of our “small causes” courts, leaving it to decide
whether due process was accorded to UCC in the Indian trial process.

It was this factor that the Indian UCC attorneys so cleverly deployed to
secure the Supreme Court of India settlement orders, serving the ultimate
end of immunity and impunity of MNCs, CEOs and their counterparts among the
top echelons of political and adjudicatory leadership.

*The Second Bhopal Catastrophe*

The Supreme Court settlement orders mark the beginning of the end of the
constitutional idea of India.

Not merely did the Supreme Court settle the UCC liability to $470 million
against the Union of India's damage claims of $3 billion-plus, but it
further sought to justify this amount and the grant of complete immunity
from any criminal liability for UCC and its global affiliates. Later, of
course, given the exertions of the Bhopal-violated, the court, on review,
cancelled this immunity, though leaving cruelly intact the meagre amount
thus sanctioned for hundreds of thousands of survivors whose real-life needs
for health care and livelihood were thus rendered of little serious regard.

Further, the court fully legitimises the denial of the

[GreenYouth] And that is justice for Bhopal...!

[damodar prasad]

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Huge outcry in India over the paltry justice delivered for the victims of
Bhopal's Union Carbide gas leak in 1984.

Not satisfied with the verdict? Why not increase the fine by say another
five rupees...?

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[GreenYouth] Your help for three girls, orphaned by reckless driver

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Through the last week, people from all over the world have written in asking
how they can help Preeti and her two younger sisters. At the age of 4,
Preeti spent three days looking after her siblings at home in Delhi, while
they waited for their mother to return. Finally, somebody answered their
mother's cell phone. It was a policeman. And he told Preeti that her mother
had died in a taxi when it was rammed by a Mercedes convertible. The driver
of that car, Dinesh Tanwar, ran away after causing the accident. He is the
son of one of Delhi's richest politicians. He's now out on bail.

Preeti and her sisters are at a government-run welfare home, hoping that a
distant uncle will adopt them.

Read Preeti's story *here.

*You can also comment here.

If you'd like to help Preeti and her sisters, please send your cheques to:

*Preeti and Her Sisters
c/o The Hope Trust
207, Okhla Industrial Estate, Phase - III New Delhi - 110020.
*
NDTV will work with an NGO to ensure your contributions help Preeti.

http://www.ndtv.com/news/cities/8-children-pay-for-delhis-reckless-drivers-30838.php

At the age of four, and in the space of a week, Preeti has involuntarily
become the head of her family. For four days, she waited along with her
younger siblings at home for their mother to return. They were alone. They
had no food or water. Their 28-year-old mother, Meenakshi, was in a taxi
that was battered, last Wednesday, by a Mercedes driven by Dinesh Tanwar.
His father, Congressman Kanwar Singh Tanwar, was officially the richest
candidate in the last assembly elections in Delhi.

Till Sunday, Meenakshi lay in a morgue, unidentified. Her children waited at
home for her to return. None of the neighbours came to help them. They were
used to living alone and kept calling their mother on her phone but it was
smashed in the accident.



Read more at:
http://www.ndtv.com/news/cities/your-help-for-three-girls-orphaned-by-reckless-driver-31609.php?u=1426&cp

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[GreenYouth] Maoist indefinite strike in Kathamandu intensifies

[damodar prasad]

The indefinite nationwide agitation launched by the UCPN (Maoist) on May 2
is slowly taking a nasty turn. Day-IV of the strike on Wednesday saw clashes
between Maoist cadres and police personnel and between cadres of the Young
Communist League (YCL) and Youth Force (YF), the youth wing of the CPN-UML,
in different parts of the country.

A police report said there were 21 incidents of banda defiance, 40 of
vandalism and nine of clashes and kidnapping across the country on
Wednesday.

In the Capital, Maoist cadres picketed inner parts of the city to “spread
awareness” of bout their strike. Maoist cadres went around appealing to
valley residents to participate in their demonstrations.

In Bhaktapur, gunshots were heard at a demonstration staged by the Maoists
and the YF at Tuchhimilla Galli, Chhochhen. Maoist cadres, who were marching
through alleys and streets there, claimed YF cadres fired two shots at the
rally.

Bhaktapur Maoist district in-charge Bhaskar Pradhananga said two shots were
fired at them by cadres of the YF. Earlier on Wednesday, around 50 YF cadres
led by Mahesh Basnet held a rally there urging the business community to
defy the strike and open shops.

According to Pradhananga, the YF cadres opened fire after Maoist supporters
tried to chase them away. The YF, however, claimed that it was the Maoists
who opened fire.

Bhaktapur Superintendent of Police Pushpa Chandra Ranjeet said only one shot
was fired while police found four 9-mm calibre shells and a ‘magazine’ on
the site.

At Sinamangal, YCL cadres thrashed two locals. According to police, the YCL
cadres hit them with bamboo sticks when they spoke against Maoists. The
injured are undergoing treatment at Kathmandu Medical College in Sinamangal.

Meanwhile, Maoist Vice Chairman Baburam Bhattarai inquired about the
condition of cadres putting up in different shelters and asked them if they
needed any additional support.

A day after locals retaliated against the Maoists at Satungal VDC in the
Capital, the party held a mass meet there on Wednesday. Addressing the
programme, Maoist Vice Chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha said Tuesday’s
incident was a “conspiracy of reactionary elements.”

“Any report that locals retaliated against the Maoists’ agitation is an
insult to the people of Satungal; people here have always stood for
progress,” Shrestha said.

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[GreenYouth] Re: Narco-analysis, brain-mapping illegal: SC

[damodar prasad]

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article422149.ece?homepage=true

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:52 PM, damodar prasad wrote:

>
> http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/may/05/narco-analysis-brain-mapping-illegal-says-sc.htm
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[GreenYouth] Narco-analysis, brain-mapping illegal: SC

[damodar prasad]

http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/may/05/narco-analysis-brain-mapping-illegal-says-sc.htm

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Re: [GreenYouth] the moderate Muslim

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Thanks Aftab for forwarding this article.

I think the distinctions of moderate/modern,
extremist/traditional, radical/postmodern are creations of the same west-pop
thinking. But these now have universal applications as well

 While thinking about the points argued in the article, the question that
came to my mind: where do we locate Prof.M.N.Karassery? as a a small- time
careerist who could very well translate the uniform kind of
west-sanctioned discourse  into a Malabar Malayalam... to put it more
precisely, a careerist Malayalam translator of the west-versal discourse of
Islam.
Karassery, assuming himself to be authentic voice, actually in the process,
suppress, different  and distinct voices in Malayalam .




On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Afthab Ellath  wrote:

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> http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=233848
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>  *The moderate Muslim*   Monday, April 12, 2010
> Afiya Shehrbano
>
> The last decade has been a particularly compelling one for many
> self-conscious Muslims with regard to the moderate vs radical Islam debate.
> Through the process, in varying degrees and capacities, a body of
> self-acclaimed �moderate� scholars, students and vague academics have gained
> relevance and even, international fame. There are those with iconic status,
> such as Talal Asad and Mahmood Mamdani, who lend legitimacy to western
> critical reasoning since they defend Islam against western attacks while
> located in the West. Then there are small-time careerists such as Irshad
> Manji and a spectrum of rainbow Muslims who have been well-received by
> Europe and the US from Muslim countries and are speckled all over
> new-founded Islamic departments within Western academia and media. Several
> of these experts and scholars are often rejected (if they�re lucky,
> persecuted) by their countries of origin - often not by their governments
> but by obscure political opportunist forces. This tends to make them
> subversive and academically sexy to western academia.
>
> Often, such scholars have been largely irrelevant and ignored within their
> societies of origin. This is because in Muslim-majority countries the
> audiences tend to be less interested in academic debates and more interested
> in piety, ritual and political delivery of religion. Also, in Muslim
> societies there is such tremendous competition between religious discourses
> that unless it�s a sensationalist blasphemous case purported by some
> opportunist, it is unlikely to deserve monopolistic attention. In other
> words, as in all disciplines and with all other persuasions of faith, the
> higher academic debates elude the common people while the political ones
> gain attention. It is due to the political relevance of Islamic scholars
> that conflict erupts in Muslim-majority countries, not their academic
> differences.
>
> On the other hand, the scholarship that Muslim academics produce in the
> West often attempts to disown radical Islamists or militant expressions of
> Islamic belief and seeks recognition, even romanticisation, of the
> subjectivity of the Moderate Muslim. This serves the political purpose of
> western governments because the current globalised economy and spurts of
> terrorism demand that politics stay more centrist, blunted, accommodative
> and �safe� - for capital, not necessarily for people. In this environment,
> the rhetoric of moderation and tolerance requires that we must purge
> ourselves of every shade of non-moderate Muslim, ie, both the radical and
> the secular. This has served as a popular political ploy for leaders, both
> in Western countries but also in Muslim-majority ones.
>
> What is the relevance of such projects? On the one hand, there is no
> denying the importance of research, analysis, debate and disagreement on any
> topic that lends itself to enhancing knowledge and ideas. However, it is
> when academia begins to engage with the political, that the application of
> such research comes up for discussion.
>
> In an effort to buffer radical Islamic sentiment, moderate scholarship
> attempts to build an alternative body of Islamic history and social norms
> derived through an academic rather than political process. The trouble with
> sapping out the politics from history is that it becomes rather dull,
> pedantic and does not lend itself to the current (modern) political context.
> So moderate scholars are split on this point; some suggest aligning Islamic
> history to the current context and projected future, while the revivalists
> tend to reject modernity and western universalism and are drawn to a newly
> constructed, �culturally appropriate� alternative body of norms and laws for
> Muslims. This latter proposal preoccupies western governments and societies,
> where war has become unpopular and economically draining.
>
> It also finds resonance in a new generation of young Muslims who have
> witnessed the surge of anti-Muslim sentiment expressed by way of irreverent
> cartoons, banning of 

Re: [GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: Women's Reservation Bill- Reservation forDalit/OBC/Minority women- pl endorse

[damodar prasad]

Venu,
In representative democracies, if the question of reservations concerns with
"Equity", don't you think that any legislation should seriously take into
consideration, the issues of constituencies that are under-represented, the
historical denial of such un-representaions and how to prioritize the
representation in view of the future?
Instead of that you find consistent "demonization" of Dalit/OBC/Muslim
leaders as obscurantists? Isn' that a trick -in-itself?

Prasad

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[GreenYouth] Kobad Gandy on Union Budget 2010-11

[damodar prasad]

Where has all the money gone.
http://epw.in/epw/uploads/articles/14613.pdf

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Re: [GreenYouth] Fwd: Women's Reservation Bill- Reservation forDalit/OBC/Minority women- pl endorse

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mere repititon of argument does not make anyway better.
But see this Indian twist-trick:
"the underlying argument is that the CPM/BJP male leaders are patriarchal,
and hence it is quite kosher for the OBC/Muslim male leaders to be so"

Deep inside the secular pretensions lies a mind, which is eager to
"demonize" the Muslim/OBC leaders for demanding the reservation. If the
reservation concerns about equity, then you necessarily have to consider the
question of non or un-representaion of Muslim/OBC women in legliative
process.

I quote the EPW edit once again:

 "It is important to note that right from when it was first tabled in 1996,
the main opposition to reservation for women in the legislature has always
centred on the question of sub-quotas for Muslims and Other Backward Classes
(OBCs), or additional quotas for dalit women. In other words, despite
misleading media images, there has never been a simple opposition between
feminist support and patriarchal resistance. Vocal dissent has always
invoked the interests of the already disadvantaged castes and communities –
*it has never opposed women’s rights as such. Indeed, the media’s eagerness
to demonise backward caste and Muslim politicians opposing the Bill serves
to obscure the unspoken patriarchy that is at work behind the scenes in
every political party. *How else do we explain the low presence of women
candidates among political parties in favour of women’s reservations in all
the national and state elections after 1996? It is the silent subversion of
the ayes – and not the noisy disruption of the nays – that is most
responsible for the 14 years of exile endured by this Bill" (EPW edit, March
13, 2010)

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Re: [GreenYouth] Fwd: Women's Reservation Bill- Reservation forDalit/OBC/Minority women- pl endorse

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"is a ploy of the OBC/Muslim males to suppress their women in their name!"
A dirty trick. And that's all"... What an astute observation, Mr. Sukla Sen?

As if the male leaders in the parties like CPM and BJP have all of a sudden
become non-patriarchal/ progressive/feminist and what not.

"It is important to note that right from when it was first tabled in 1996,
the main opposition to reservation for women in the legislature has always
centred on the question of sub-quotas for Muslims and Other Backward Classes
(OBCs), or additional quotas for dalit women. In other words, despite
misleading media images, there has never been a simple opposition between
feminist support and patriarchal resistance. Vocal dissent has always
invoked the interests of the already disadvantaged castes and communities –
*it has never opposed women’s rights as such. Indeed, the media’s eagerness
to demonise backward caste and Muslim politicians opposing the Bill serves
to obscure the unspoken patriarchy that is at work behind the scenes in
every political party. *How else do we explain the low presence of women
candidates among political parties in favour of women’s reservations in all
the national and state elections after 1996? It is the silent subversion of
the ayes – and not the noisy disruption of the nays – that is most
responsible for the 14 years of exile endured by this Bill" (EPW edit, March
13, 2010)

Mr.Sukla Sen is also attempting the same media trick of demonizing
OBC/Muslim leaders.. ... Nevertheless, the media along with its kind of
supporters were able to sell this Cen-Trick to a upbeat upper caste middle
class who till now are opposed to caste-based reservation while being very
vocal about gender-justice!!

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[GreenYouth] Media, academics and politicians- a note by NPChekkutty

[damodar prasad]

Hi,
I am forwarding a note written by Sri. NPChekkuty, Exec. Editor, Thejas
__

There are strident calls upon the media to make amends for its omissions and
commissions, its pervasive intrusions into the privacy of individuals and
the havoc it has wrought in the lives of many unfortunate victims.

As a media person, I have always been extremely worried about these
tendencies on the part of the media and have expressed my views that the
media should introspect, and try be a responsible player in our democratic
polity.

But the media, at the same time, cannot remain a toothless entity. It has
necessarily to be aggressive, it has to gate-crash into domains that are
closed to public review, and bring an objective view of things and
developments to the public.

This is a tricky situation. How to strike a fine balance between the
concerns of the public's  right to information and the individual's right to
privacy? Who is a private individual and who is a public person? How to
define them and how to strike this nuanced position while reporting on them
and their activities? And what constitutes private activity and public
activity and where does the line of private activity of a public person and
public activity of a private person merges or demarcates?

For almost a quarter century I have agonized over these questions and
recently when I saw these clamours for public apology from our media to an
American academic for some reports against him, I was thinking about these
things again.

Here let me say that I am taking up the case of Dr Richard Franke only as a
case study and I do not in anyway wish to express an opinion on his personal
or academic activity. I presume that he is a well-meaning academic genuinely
interested in Kerala and its people and all the past calumny against him,
enumerated in the recent book by Dr Thomas Isaac and Mr N P Chandrasekharan
and known to us Malayalis through various news media in the past few years,
are simply baseless and the figment  of the imagination of a politically
motivated media.

Now  a few questions arise. I will take up only two right now. First, how
far the demands for an apology are legitimate; and two, whether there is any
substance to the charge that the reports in media against Dr Franke proved
to be an infringement on academic freedom?

This plethora of media campaign against Dr Franke was launched by Patom
magazine of Mr Sudheesh, which was later taken up by many other Malayalam
newsapapers and other publications. The motivated nature of these campaigns
were self evident, and most readers remained unpersuaded by most of these
charges levelled against Dr Franke, Dr Isaac and a few others. It was a
political shadow-boxing within the CPM, to which most of those involved in
this battle actually belonged.

That means, the entire episode was part of our contemporary political life
in the past few years. All the players were public persons and most of them
were in the game for gains of a political nature and are endowed with
political power in various ways.

Still, they make a camouflage attack on the media as if there was an
infringement on media ethics. Indeed there was twisting of media ethics
because the media often failed to check the authority of news items fed to
them, but that in no way could be a case for seeking an apology from the
media or the launch of an Inquistion from politicians. If anyone had been
injured in such a scenario, it was the media itself  because they suffered
in their credibility, but here again there is no way a media oganization can
cross check such items fed to them because the Communist parties work behind
iron curtains. They will not respond to media inquiries, but they still
expect the media to play by rules. That is a very funny idea about
democratic ways of functioning, indeed. A similar example could be when
someone say, "head I win, tail you lose...!"

The second aspect that needs probing is whether there is any infringement on
academic freedom. Dr Franke appears to be a US academic with some long- term
connections with Kerala and has done some serious works here. He has been
generally enthusiastic about Kerala and its development models though many
may have differences with his points of view.

The charge is that his explanations were not given its due and that the
campaign had been continued without any hitch even after such an explanation
was offered. But why did Dr Franke become an object of attack? Was it
because he was from US or was it because he was inadvertently (or perhaps
even deliberately) involved in the CPM inner struggles?

The fact of the matter is that Dr Fanke became a target not because he was
an academic or he was from US, but because he was seen to be taking a big
role behind the curtains; being close to leaders in one faction in CPM and
was also seen to be working with them on certain areas of serious concern to
Kerala society and politics. When yo

[GreenYouth] An open letter and appeal from a tribal advocate

[damodar prasad]

http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/dec/21/an-open-letter-and-appeal-from-a-tribal-advocate.htm

*A human rights advocate based in Chhatisgarh was allegedly detained and
beaten up by the local police for being a "Naxalite supporter". *

*Advocate Alban Toppo writes an open letter narrating his "brutal"
experience and has appealed for justice.*

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[GreenYouth] Re: Requiem for the October Revolution: Looking Back at History

[damodar prasad]

i don't know whether the science-believers in this group are listening to
this response.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:51 AM, anand patwardhan  wrote:

> the real hubris lies in the claim to "science" which is not radically
> different from the claim to "god".
>
> we are humans (a defective species), not machines and we are not quite
> predictable unless u are watching us from outside the hemisphere over
> thousands of years.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Sukla Sen  wrote:
>
>> http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1745.html
>>
>>  MAINSTREAM, VOL XLVII, NO 47, NOVEMBER 7, 2009
>> Requiem for the October Revolution
>>
>> Saturday 7 November 2009, by Subrata 
>> Sen
>>
>> *On the occasion of the October Revolution’s ninetysecond anniversary we
>> reproduce, with the author’s consent, the following piece that appeared in
>> Nagpur Times eighteen years ago.*
>>
>> Facts must be faced. Masses in the Soviet Union are today bent upon doing
>> away with all vestiges of the October Revolution. Attempts to “analyse” the
>> developments carefully avoiding the cardinal issue of the Stalinist legacy
>> are obviously ridiculous. The current mass upsurge in the Soviet Union and
>> Eastern Europe are directed against the legacy of despotism, repression and
>> genocide.
>>
>> Within three days, the coupist Emergency Committee is reported to have
>> placed orders for two-and-a-half lakh of handcuffs and stacks of arrest
>> warrant forms. It is the certainty of such horrors that brought millions
>> into the streets of Soviet cities to defy tanks and guns and caused
>> exuberant euphoria amongst the Indian Stalinists, at least initially. Any
>> attempt to explain the collapse of the Soviet system on the basis of
>> developments after March 5, 1953 (when Stalin died) is patently untenable.
>> It does not explain why the Soviet citizen looks longingly towards American
>> capitalism and not the halcyon days of Stalin. Neither Maoist accountancy
>> nor belated admission of Stalin’s mistake can provide an adequate
>> explanation.
>>
>> Capitalism cannot provide a cure for the principal ills of human existence
>> today, exploitation and alienation. This is abundantly clear from more than
>> two centuries of capitalist development. Sooner or later, even in the Soviet
>> Union and Eastern Europe, masses must return to a search for an end to these
>> evils, and only Marxism can point the way. This is what makes the resurgence
>> of the Marxist movement inevitable.
>>
>> Marxism or Stalinism?
>>
>> However, no brand of Marxism or socialism or communism can henceforth be
>> acceptable to the masses, particularly in the Soviet Union and Eastern
>> Europe, unless it is free from the least taint of Stalinism. Also, if by a
>> conjuncture of history, impossible to visualise today, a Stalinist group is
>> catapulated to power somewhere, the likelihood is that they will usher in
>> the abominable horror that was Kampuchia under Pol Pot, rather than an
>> authentic disctatorship of the proletariat, the paradigm for which is the
>> Paris Commune, a perfect example of what in current jargon is called
>> participatory democracy.
>>
>> It must be remembered that critical Marxists, who have rejected Stalinism
>> ab initio and refused to be manipulated or dictated to by the Kremlin
>> bureaucracy, have always maintained that Stalinism is a degeneration,
>> debasement and perversion, in many ways a negation of Marxism. Marxism is
>> the materialist conception of history. Stalinism is the manipulative
>> conception of history, the paradigm for which is the infamous History of the
>> CPSU (B), Short Course, reputed to have been prepared under the personal
>> supervision of the great infallible dictator himself; believed to have been
>> his handiwork in large parts. Marxism is not only revolutionary and
>> scientific socialism, it is also revolutionary and scientific humanism.
>> Stalinism is blatant negation of humanism. Marxism stands for a programme of
>> dictatorship of the proletariat; Stalinism stands for a programme of
>> dictatorship over the proletariat. Communists disdain to conceal their aims,
>> said Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto. Antonio Gramsci’s journal
>> Ordine Nuovo used to print on its musthead the motto, ‘Truth is
>> revolutionary’. Such candour and honesty is possible because of the moral
>> grandeur of the objective of the dictatorship of the proletariat which even
>> a staunch opponent of Marxism as Bertrand Russell had to concede. When this
>> is abandoned for a programme of dictatorship over the proletariat,
>> suppressiong veri suggestio falsii and outright lying must become the way of
>> life.
>>
>> Humanism Must
>>
>> The harsh truth is that the Stalinists have consciously and deliberately
>> adopted this anti-humanist perspective and programme decades ago. To lose
>> faith in mankind is a sin, said the great humanist seer, Rabindranath. The
>> Stalinists have

[GreenYouth] Re: Ambedkar in Hungary

[damodar prasad]

Seen the Hindu report. How did the press in Hungary cover this?.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Luisa Steur  wrote:

>
>  *Ambedkar in Hungary *
> http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/11/22/stories/2009112250120300.htm
>
> PARDEEP ATTRI
>
>   The Romas, a discriminated minority in Hungary, turn to Ambedkar and
> Buddhism in their quest for dignity and equality.
>
>  --
> *
>
> Romas constitute one of the biggest minority blocks in Europe and have a
> history of being constantly… discriminated against, persecuted and
> stigmatised by white Europeans.
> *
> --
>
>  Photo: Jai Bhim Network
>
> *A fight against injustice: Romas protesting at Heroes Square in Budapest.
> *
>
> Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the
> usurpers, but by relentless struggle.
>
> Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
>
> O n April 14, 2008, when Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's birthday was being
> commemorated across India, I got an email from an unknown person — Derdák
> Tibor from Hungary — appreciating my article, “Schools, Toilets or Temples?”
> which he had read on an e-group. My article had lamented that “at every
> street corner we have built temples, but not toilets or schools.” Tibor said
> he was a sociologist, and a former member of the Hungarian Parliament now
> working for the Roma community (derogatorily referred to as gypsies across
> Europe). Over endless emails, I gradually learnt about the lives of and the
> problems faced by the Roma community in Hungary, while I explained to him
> the conditions of Dalits in India.
> *
>
> Striking similarities
> *
>
> What intrigued me was Derdák Tibor said that he and another Roma leader,
> Orsós János, had been inspired by the philosophy of social transformation of
> Dr. Ambedkar and his work among the Dalits, and that they were now trying to
> deploy Ambedkarite ideas in their struggle for equal rights for the Roma
> community. How and why Ambedkar? Tibor had chanced upon a book on Babasaheb
> in Paris and a new world opened up. He immediately could see the
> similarities between the discrimination faced by Dalits in India and Romas
> in Europe.
>
> Romas/‘Gypsies' are normally considered to be “members of nomadic people of
> Europe with dark skin” with a worldwide population of about 12 million,
> originally from North India. With their eight million population in Europe,
> they constitute one of the biggest minority blocks in Europe and have a
> history of being constantly opposed, refused, discriminated against,
> persecuted and stigmatised by white Europeans. They constitute about seven
> per cent of Hungary's population.
>
> After discovering Ambedkar, Tibor and János visited Maharashtra in 2005 and
> 2007. They felt a deep connection with the Dalits of India and with Dr.
> Ambedkar's emancipatory agenda. After returning to Hungary, in 2007, they
> founded the Jai Bhim Network, embraced Buddhism and opened three high
> schools named after Dr. Ambedkar in Sajókaza, Ózd and Hegymeg for Roma
> children. One of the activities of the Network is to invite young Dalit
> activists to Hungary and provide them with opportunities to interact with
> the Roma community. Recently, I was part of one such three-member delegation
> and lived with the Roma community in the village Sajókaza for almost a
> month.
> *
>
> Life in Sajókaza
> *
>
> Sajókaza is a beautiful village about 30 km northeast of Miskolc, with a
> population of 3,300 people, half of them Romas. The majority of the Romas
> live on the outskirts of the village in ghettos. In their neighbourhood,
> there is no tap water, no street lighting and no sewage disposal. A few
> meters away, in the adjoining non-Roma streets, all these basic amenities
> are provided. There was a time when all the Romas of the village were
> employed in the nearby mines but now almost all of them are unemployed and
> live on a monthly dole from the government. During our stay, it became
> evident that the Romas suffer as much everyday discrimination as Dalits.
> There are three churches in Sajókaza, but not even a single Roma visits
> them. It immediately reminded me of the Hindu temples in India where our
> entry, though guaranteed in law, is prohibited in practice.
>
> The foremost hurdle in the education of Romas in Hungary is the segregation
> of Roma children, who are forced to sit in separate classes. They attend
> different schools/classes in dilapidated buildings without basic amenities,
> whereas Hungarian children attend regular, fully equipped schools. Tibor
> says there were separate cups and plates for Roma students till 10 years
> ago. Roma children grow up constantly dehumanised, humiliated, persecuted
> and rejected. They are declared ‘mentally challenged' and are sent to
> special schools; so much that about 90 per cent of special school students
> in Hungary are said to be from this community. Segregation is not limited to
> schools. In 2003, the European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) c

[GreenYouth] The Year the World Really Changed: the events of '79 matter more

[damodar prasad]

By Niall Ferguson http://www.newsweek.com/id/221629
[..]
In short, 1989 was less of a watershed year than 1979. The reverberations of
the fall of the Berlin Wall turned out to be much smaller than we had
expected at the time. In essence, what happened was that we belatedly saw
through the gigantic fraud of Soviet superpower. But the real trends of our
time—the rise of China, the radicalization of Islam, and the rise and fall
of market fundamentalism—had already been launched a decade earlier. Thirty
years on, we are still being swept along by the historic waves of 1979. The
Berlin Wall is only one of many relics of the Cold War to have been
submerged by them.

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[GreenYouth] Why Africa welcomes the ‘new Chinese colonialism’

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Many see China’s engagement in Africa as a catastrophe for the continent.
There is a widespread perception that saintly Britain had adopted this poor
little girl called Africa and was busy saving her from hunger, war, disease
and poverty. Suddenly big, greedy China, flashing huge deals and cheap
goods, has seduced the girl and is leading her astray, even raping her. And
to make it worse for Britain, ungrateful Africa sometimes feels that
although Chinese intentions may not be entirely honourable, China at least
treats her like a grown up.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6908835.ece

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[GreenYouth] Maoists are laying their bet on the Union home minister

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THE PHANTOM ENEMY
- The Maoists are laying their bet on the Union home minister*Cutting
Corners* - Ashok Mitra

In their own manner, Indian Maoists have worked out the rationale of what
they are doing. The grisly serial murders they are indulging in are, in the
first instance, intended to warn god-fearing men and women in the areas they
are entrenched in to behave and not act as police informers. Should their
instructions be infringed, retribution would be swift and merciless. The
brutal killings, specifically of CPI(M) cadre and sympathizers, have a
collateral objective: the Maoists want no competition in the tribal belt.

These are, however, minor details in the matrix of the overall Maoist
strategy. The Maoists believe revolution to be a feasible proposition in
India in the present conjuncture. They have planned, in great secrecy and
with some meticulousness, in the course of the past decades. They have
targeted the *adivasi *population of around 100 million, dispersed all over
the country, with a slightly heavier concentration in states in the
heartland. *adivasis *have been deprived and dispossessed through the
centuries, and are waiting for a miracle, which refuses to happen. The
Dalits were fortunate to be gifted a cult figure in Bhimrao Ambedkar. He
worked within the system from the Gandhi-Irwin Pact days to ensure a
substantial say for his people in the nation’s affairs. He was the main
architect of free India’s Constitution too, and availed himself of that
opportunity to guard Dalit interests jealously. He still had some grouses
and parted company with the powers that be before his death. The left-over
discontent of Babasaheb was capital stock on which Kanshi Ram, and later
Mayavati, built their aggressive platform. But whatever the intensity of the
confrontation they planned, at no stage did the Dalit movement ever breach
the contours of the national mainstream. Even today, the controversy over
statuary is, at best, the assertion of a mood, at worst, banality. Behenji
and her friends have taken the system as given and are trying to milk it as
much as they can on behalf of their constituency.

Descendants of India’s original inhabitants have failed to produce an
Ambedkar from within their midst. They have been squeezed and squeezed for
aeons on end by the superior classes, uprooted from their land, thrown out
of their homestead, denied sources of food and water, whiplashed as bonded
labour, their women were free goods to satisfy the sensual urges of the
gentry, their poultry and pigs were confiscated to cater to the culinary
requirements of the same set. Environmentalists and wildlife buffs have
worried over matters concerning the preservation of the flora and the fauna;
they had little time for the sufferings of the tribal people.

What is now Jharkhand is quintessential *adivasi *tract. The Tatas built
their steel-based empire in the region and have lorded over it for more than
a century. There has been no impact of this presence, though, on the life
and living of the tribals whose land the Tatas had appropriated; people from
elsewhere have come and vastly improved their own lot, while the local
tribes have been left out in the cold. The story is repeated, over and over
again, in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and
Uttarakhand. No statistician has even thought of developing a separate time
series of gross domestic product for the country’s tribal population. Were
such a series constructed, the per capita tribal income growth would
conceivably be seen to be barely 0.5 per cent per annum over the entire
post-Independence period. And the testimony of a Human Development Index
would be even more frightening.

Maoists seem to have done their homework. They have built an organizational
network, silently and surreptitiously, across eight or nine states with a
significant concentration of tribal stock. They think the revolution they
have been itching for is well-nigh near. The foot soldiers of that
revolution will be the suppressed and oppressed *adivasis *now ready for a
glorious uprising against the tyrannies of State power. This may sound a
pipe dream to most others, but not to the Maoists, for it is their belief
that they have pushed India’s State power into a Prisoner’s Dilemma trap.

Of late, the Maoists have increased the tempo of their acts of mayhem. Going
on rampage in state after state, they have killed people, disrupted railway
tracts, attacked police stations and burnt down power transmission centres.
They are, quite explicitly, inviting the authorities to large-scale open
warfare. Such warfare, as they have thought it out, will involve heavy
deployment in the Maoist-infested areas of State forces of all descriptions:
police, paramilitary, military and perhaps the air force as well. And this
is where, the Maoists are confident, their opportunity lies.

In search of the phantom enemy, government forces will raid village after
village, comb tenement after tenemen

[GreenYouth] Chomsky Banned in Guantánamo

[damodar prasad]

http://www.progressive.org/wx101309.html

That’s right. A book by the leading leftwing intellectual in America is
verboten in the prison library there.

Though the library has 16,000 books,according to the Miami
Herald,
and though some of them deal with politics and current events, a book of
Chomsky’s essays post 9/11 was expressly denied to a Guantánamo prisoner.

All of those essays were op-eds that Chomsky had originally written for the
New York Times syndicate.

A spokesperson for the prison said “force protection reasons” precluded him
from discussing the matter, but he confirmed that not a single copy of any
Chomsky book was in the library.

Chomsky was his usual matter-of-fact self. “This happens sometimes in
totalitarian regimes,” he told the Miami Herald.

But it shouldn’t happen at Guantánamo.

Nor should such censorship happen in U.S. prisons here at home.

Every once in a while a prisoner sends me a note telling me that the warden
wouldn’t let him read The Progressive magazine.

We’re supposed to believe in free speech in this country.

And it seems to me that when we’ve taken every other freedom away from a
prisoner, that the least we can do is not imprison that person’s mind.

That is, as Noam Chomsky said, a totalitarian impulse

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[GreenYouth] Life after secularism

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a note by Dr.Nizar Ahmed
http://thefishpond.in/nizar/2009/life-after-secularism/

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[GreenYouth] Re: College bans Muslim headscarf

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Wearing head scarf is also an issue related to individual rights. Basically
it is an isuse about the public display of body. There is a gender aspect to
it. Now one can ask how does "gender" figure in the issue of a SC order
banning beards in schools. However, In both the cases the focus is on one
community. One can also recall that SC judges later apologized for their
remark on "taliban" with reference to the beard case. In both the cases, the
assertion on the "'authorial" power is on the body of women and minority
community and this is part of the obligatons of Hindu version of social
contract.

Hindu version of social contract is semi-facsist in substance and form and
it gets it legitimacy from the scriptures it follows. Now it is semi-fascist
in the sense it has yet to evolve to the the fully evolved modern form of
State fasicsm. The contradiction within its communitarian structures
centrally limits its development to assume a full-fledged fascism.

However, since Savarkar the tendency has been to adopt the prevailing
secular and western notions of social practices. To achieve this, it does
not got to back to scriptures but adopts social-scientific approaches even
to extent of opposing religion itself. Social scientific approach in the
sense that it employs all so-called rational approaches including
manouvarable statistics to rationalize its hatred driven social vision. For
example, secular idea of uniform civil code is central to its own philosophy
of "integral humanism".

While the Hindu social contract of semi-fascism brings in all the 'symoblic"
issues of minority religions from Muslim head- scarf to Sikh kripan, it
conveniently evades or obfuscate the vulgarity of domineering Hindu
aesthetic in Indian culture as represented by the vertical Iyengar Tilak of
former election commissioner (Public Servant), Gopala Swami.

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[GreenYouth] New fault line of impending disaster for the LEFT

[damodar prasad]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/24/revolution-1989-1979

The 21st-century revolution pits the educated, western-oriented,
socially liberal, economically neoliberal urban middle class against the
economically egalitarian, socially traditionalist rural poor. The green
armbanded protesters – again, on the right side – against Ahmadinejad's
election "victory" in Iran were urban and liberal, the president's
supporters rural and conservative. As the BBC's John Simpson noted in the
streets of Tehran, the two big differences between the 1979 and 2009
uprisings were the presence of women and the absence of beards.

.

The sedimentation of this new fault line would be a disaster for the left.
Like the Russian revolution, all of the great progressive campaigns of
reform in the 20th century – from the international campaign for the Spanish
Republic via the American New Deal and the European postwar welfare state to
the American civil rights movement and women's liberation – grew out of an
alliance between the progressive intelligentsia and the poor. That alliance
was betrayed in Russia when Stalin turned on the intelligentsia in the Great
Purge of the 1930s, as Mao Zedong did in the Cultural Revolution of the late
60s.

But today, the alliance is being undermined by the intelligentsia itself,
here as well as elsewhere. Proclaiming old left-right divisions as out of
date, progressive thinkers posit a raft of new fault lines – liberty versus
authority, secularism versus religion, free speech versus censorship,
universalism versus multiculturalism, feminism versus the family – all of
which are cast in forms that put the progressive middle class on one side
and significant sections of the poor on the other. The pro-war belligerati
wrap themselves in borrowed progressive banners and set about cementing a
new barrier between freedom and equality. Abandoned and berated, sections of
the non-white poor turn to religious fundamentalism and parts of the white
poor to the BNP.

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[GreenYouth] Re: CPI (m)s mode of punishment - K Haridas

[damodar prasad]

This reads like Janasakthi or Samakaleena Malayalam article. There is no
problem if this commentary had appeared in the weeklies above menitoned bcoz
both of thm hve an editorial position on the factional politics within CPM.
But definitely there is an issue when EPW publishes such commentaries. This
commentary is blantantly factional in approach. We access or read EPW for
articles and commentaries which are analytically rigourous, conceptually
in-depth, empirically dense and for affinity for EPW and Indian journals
like the Seminar is basically bcoz of this reason.

One can ask, what about writings of Asok Mitra, Prabath Patnaik or Aditya
Nigam that regularly appear in EPW on issues concerning Left and CPM in
particular. In my reading, I have never found their thinking and writing
driven by any factional positions. And writers like Asok Mitra (AM) have
been writing in EPW for long. More over, their articles do have conceptual
in-sights and are also informed by a host of issues plauging Left and CPM in
the context of globalization or perhaps in these times of transition
politics.

While reading this commentary, one can only infer just one thing: That is
there is a scope for an English Janaskathi as perhaps there are readers for
similar stuff at a National level.

@Anil:

I think while forwarding materials from (PDF) EPW and Seminar, one can be
little bit "thrifty" bcoz unlike newspapers, weeklies and magazines,
these journals I guess, run on subscriptions and donations not on ad.
revenue. I too have sent PDF files from these magazines. But I have stopped
it. It is best if we only refer to the article. Those interested can either
get a print copy (only Rs.35/-) or subscribe online. If we want such
journals to survive and be sustainable, this is what we can do...




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>
>
> --
> "Sometimes — quite often — the same people who are capable of a radical
> questioning of, say, economic neo-liberalism or the role of the state, are
> deeply conservative socially — about women, marriage, sexuality, our
> so-called 'family values' — sometimes they're so doctrinaire that you don't
> know where the establishment stops and the resistance begins. For example,
> how many Gandhian/Maoist/ Marxist Brahmins or upper caste Hindus would be
> happy if their children married Dalits or Muslims, or declared themselves to
> be gay? Quite often, the people whose side you're on, politically, have
> absolutely no place for a person like you in their social, cultural or
> religious imagination.That's a knotty problem politically radical people can
> come at you with the most breathtakingly conservative social views and make
> nonsense of the way in which you have ordered your world and your way of
> thinking about it and you have to find a way of accommodating these
> contradictions within your worldview."
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[GreenYouth] Jaswant singh's Jinnah newspeak and his Sachar double speak

[damodar prasad]

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/bjp/s-jinnah-obsession/367420/
1. He told Karan Thapar, in a TV interview whose transcript this newspaper
printed, that Jinnah merely wanted “certain provinces to be with the Muslim
League. He wanted a certain percentage (of seats) in the Central
legislature. If he had that, there would not have been a partition.” Even if
that that were true, it is amazing that Mr Singh should find such
reservation along religious lines acceptable.

2. Indeed, having found it acceptable, *he goes on to pan the very
reservation he feels it was all right for Jinnah to champion*. To quote from
his interview: “The problem started with the 1906 reservation. *What does
the Sachar committee report say? Reserve for the Muslim. ... I think this
reservation for the Muslims is a disastrous path.”* *Taking a fresh look at
history is fine, but is it too much to ask for consistency in the positions
taken?*

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[GreenYouth] why does New Delhi bend over backwards to please the Americans?

[damodar prasad]

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090819/jsp/opinion/story_11379390.jsp

[...]

The question, really, is why does New Delhi bend over backwards to please
the Americans, when they themselves do not expect such favoured treatment in
India? On a visit to New Delhi in June, the US under-secretary of state for
political affairs, William Burns, was given a rare meeting with the prime
minister, Manmohan Singh. Burns is way down in protocol to have met the
external affairs minister, S.M. Krishna, let alone the prime minister. And
yet, South Block readily gave in to a routine request from the US state
department for access to the head of government.

[...]

*Visa fees are supposed to be fixed on the basis of reciprocity. But
repeated reminders from Indian consular officials in the US to the ministry
of external affairs about US citizens paying only half of what Indians have
to shell out have been studiously ignored by South Block for several years.
If New Delhi is willing to accept such unequal treatment in every
interaction with the US, is it any wonder that Indian ministers are
ill-treated at US airports and India’s icons are treated as if they are
worth nothing?*

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[GreenYouth] Palestinian West Bank looks like a fragmented archipelago- Zizek

[damodar prasad]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/18/west-bank-israel-settlers-palestinians
[...]
Saree Makdisi, in Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, describes
how, although the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is ultimately enforced
by the armed forces, it is an "occupation by bureaucracy": it works
primarily through application forms, title deeds, residency papers and other
permits. It is this micro-management of the daily life that does the job of
securing slow but steady Israeli expansion: one has to ask for a permit in
order to leave with one's family, to farm one's own land, to dig a well, or
to go to work, to school, or to hospital. One by one, Palestinians born in
Jerusalem are thus stripped of the right to live there, prevented from
earning a living, denied housing permits, etc.

Palestinians often use the problematic cliché of the Gaza strip as "the
greatest concentration camp in the world". However, in the past year, this
designation has come dangerously close to truth. *This is the fundamental
reality that makes all abstract "prayers for peace" obscene and hypocrit*ical.
The state of Israel is clearly engaged in a slow, invisible process, ignored
by the media; one day, the world will awake and discover that there is no
more Palestinian West Bank, that the land is Palestinian-frei, and that we
must accept the fact. The map of the Palestinian West Bank already looks
like a fragmented archipelago.

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[GreenYouth] സൌജന്യ ചികിത്സ ഇല്ലാതാവ ുന്നു

[damodar prasad]

സൌജന്യ ചികിത്സ ഇല്ലാതാവുന്നു
http://www.madhyamam.com/news_details.asp?id=4&nid=230857&page=൨
സമഗ്ര ആരോഗ്യ ഇന്‍ഷുറന്‍സ്: എ.പി.എല്‍ വിഭാഗത്തിനും സ്മാര്‍ട്ട്‌ കാര്‍ഡ്‌
http://www.madhyamam.com/news_details.asp?id=4&nid=230858&page=൨

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[GreenYouth] Sharukhan & Manorama's "counter-point"

[damodar prasad]

If this is an impulsive response, so be it.


Listening to the way Manorama news debated the issue of the harassment that
happened to Shahruh Khan at an US airport, I felt very agitated. Hence this
small note.


First things first: I think, typical to the certain understanding of who
speaks for whom, Counterpoint of Manorama  located and identified
Dr.P.K.Pokker and Sri.E.T.Mohammed Basheer as representative of “Muslim”
voice, as if they could not speak on behalf of “humanity”. The questions
were specifically targeted based on their name-based identification.



The “unbiased” views of “general concerns” was left to non-Muslims like
T.P.Sreenivasan and Justice K.T.Thomas. And “general concerns”  was
basically on the importance of “security”, “surveillance” as if it
represents the concerns of “international community”.



This kind of “categorical representation” is more insulting than what
happened at US airport to Sharuhkhan.



The anchor repeatedly was interpreting the whole issue as aberration of US
aiurport securty admn's  “common-sense” and “forgivable mistake”. Mr.Anchor
also did not forget to higlight the visa-denial by US admin to Narendra
Modi. It was easily concealed that the visda-denial was effected because
of a consistent campaign by the concerned civil society groups. And the
obvious distinction between Modi and Sharuhkhan is somthing that only
counter-point's intelligence can miss.



It is the very idea “common-sense” that has to be deconstructed first.


*It was neither a mistake nor  an aberration to detain S.Khan at Newark
airport ( This airport is ironically named "liberty international
airport") and I think it was a deliberate on part of US administration to do
“deep security check” on reputed stars like Shahruh Khan and Mammotty.
Reputed persons are detained at the airport for such rigorous security check
very well knowing who they are. There is a method in this madness.  *
**
When renowned people are targeted it becomes sensational news. This
“sensationalization” is an intended act. When you target well-known people,
the message that goes out is that “you are suspect if you have a muslim name
even if you are other-wise well- known and reputed”.

T.P. Sreenivasan points to the fact that even Nobel laureate Al-Baradei was
held for more than 3-hours security check though he was invited to US by
Condolezza Rice. This example exactly points to this fact.



It is not the precise act of deep security check done on reputed persons
that is important for the security administration but the message it wants
to convey to the world population at large.  It is similar to the logic of
terrorist attack. The terrorist attack is not just to decimate some
civilians but to create panic in the rest of the citizenry as well as to
humble the State power. In a manner similar to this terrorist-logic,
important persons are targeted to show how the commoners sharing same
characteristic, like commonality of names, origins etc. with the well-known
persons will be treated and the motive is to make clear that how all in the
world population with same "identitiies" fall within the ambit of 'usual
suspects".




It was so perturbing to listen to former SC judge and diplomat speaking is
such an unsympathetic and unconcerned manner and legitimizing such
un-justifiable surveillance check and detainment all in the name of “war on
terrorism”.

Kerala society and media have generally be empathetic to individuals and
communities who have been put to task for no reason by the paranoiac
security establishments anywhere. But that has become a thing of the past.
In the name of “counter-point”, the US- aided discourse on terrorism;
surveillance, etc etc have come to dominate both society and media.

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[GreenYouth] narratives of History but History itself, never ends -Eduardo Galeano

[damodar prasad]

Is justice right side up?

Has world justice been frozen in an upside-down position?

The shoe-thrower of Iraq, the man who hurled his shoes at Bush, was
condemned to three years in prison. Doesn’t he deserve, instead, a medal?

Who is the terrorist?  The hurler of shoes or their recipient?  Is not the
real terrorist the serial killer who, lying, fabricated the Iraq war,
massacred a multitude, and legalized and ordered torture?

Who are the guilty ones--the people of Atenco, in Mexico, the indigenous
Mapuches of Chile, the Kekchies of Guatemala, the landless peasants of
Brazil—all being accused of the crime of terrorism for defending their right
to their own land?  If the earth is sacred, even if the law does not say so,
aren’t its defenders sacred too?

According to *Foreign Policy Magazine*, Somalia is the most dangerous place
in the world.  But who are the pirates?  The starving people who attack
ships or the speculators of Wall Street who spent years attacking the world
and who are now rewarded with many millions of dollars for their pains?

Why does the world reward its ransackers?

Why is justice a one-eyed blind woman?  Wal-Mart, the most powerful
corporation on earth, bans trade unions. McDonald's, too.  Why do these
corporations violate, with criminal impunity, international law?  Is it
because in this contemporary world of ours, work is valued as lower than
trash and workers' rights are valued even less?

Who are the righteous and who are the villains?  If international justice
really exists, why are the powerful never judged?  The masterminds of the
worst butcheries are never sent to prison.  Is it because it is these
butchers themselves who hold the prison keys?

What makes the five nations with veto power in the United Nations
inviolable?   Is it of a divine origin, that veto power of theirs?  Can you
trust those who profit from war to guard the peace?

Is it fair that world peace is in the hands of the very five nations who are
also the world’s main producers of weapons?  Without implying any disrespect
to the drug runners, couldn’t we refer to this arrangement as yet another
example of organized crime?

Those who clamor, everywhere, for the death penalty are strangely silent
about the owners of the world.  Even worse, these clamorers forever complain
about knife-wielding murderers, yet say nothing about missile-wielding
arch-murderers.

And one asks oneself: Given that these self-righteous world owners are so
enamored of killing, why pray don’t they try to aim their murderous
proclivities at social injustice?  Is it a just a world when, every minute,
three million dollars are wasted on the military, while at the same time
fifteen children perish from hunger or curable disease? Against whom is the
so-called international community armed to the teeth?  Against poverty or
against the poor?

Why don’t the champions of capital punishment direct their ire at the values
of the consumer society, values which pose a daily threat to public safety?
Or doesn’t, perhaps, the constant bombardment of advertising constitute an
invitation to crime?  Doesn’t that bombardment numb millions and millions of
unemployed or poorly paid youth, endlessly teaching them the lie that “to be
= to have,” that life derives its meaning from ownership of such things as
cars or brand name shoes?  Own, own, they keep saying, implying that he who
has nothing is, himself, nothing.

Why isn’t the death penalty applied to death itself?  The world is organized
in the service of death.  Isn’t it true that the military industrial complex
manufactures death and devours the greater part of our resources as well as
a good part of our energies?  Yet the owners of the world only condemn
violence when it is exercised by others.  To extraterrestrials, if they
existed, such monopoly of violence would appear inexplicable.  It likewise
appears insupportable to earth dwellers who, against all the available
evidence, hope for survival: we humans are the only animals who specialize
in mutual extermination, and who have developed a technology of destruction
that is annihilating, coincidentally, our planet and all its inhabitants.

This technology sustains itself on fear.   It is the fear of enemies that
justifies the squandering of resources by the military and police.  And
speaking about implementing the death penalty, why don’t we pass a death
sentence on fear itself?  Would it not behoove us to end this universal
dictatorship of the professional scaremongers?  The sowers of panic condemn
us to loneliness, keeping solidarity outside our reach:  falsely teaching us
that we live in a dog-eat-dog world, that he who can must crush his fellows,
that danger is lurking behind every neighbor.  Watch out, they keep saying,
be careful, this neighbor will steal from you, that other one will rape you,
that baby carriage hides a Muslim bomb, and that woman who is watching
you--that innocent-looking neighbor of yours—will surely infect you with
swine flu.

In

[GreenYouth] Films that flop at the box office r best sellers as DVD's!!?

[damodar prasad]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/13/joe-queenan-adam-sandler
[...]

More recent examples of this inability to spot a lurking masterpiece include
The Big Lebowski, a so-so performer at the box office that became a huge
cult hit in the DVD aftermarket.

[...]
Nor should we overlook Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a loopy, erratic film
that did nothing at the box office when it came out in 1998, but eventually
garnered such cult appeal that it was re-released on DVD in a special 2003
collector's edition by the Criterion Collection.

[...]
The Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life, and was slow to respond to many
early efforts

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[GreenYouth] Re: media and HINI

[damodar prasad]

Today Kerala kaumudi main story says the pharma companies have struck gold
from the pandemic. It says the pharma companies have earned a businessof
4500 crores out of the pandemic. the story is avalbl in keralakaumudi online
edition.

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[GreenYouth] Jerry Cohen: Obituary

[damodar prasad]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-jerry-cohen-maverick-philosopher-who-subjected-marxism-to-the-rigours-of-analytical-philosophy-1770667.html

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[GreenYouth] Diary of an ‘ex-traitor’- Javed Ana nd (MUST READ)

[damodar prasad]

 http://www.deccanchronicle.com/op-ed/diary-%E2%80%98ex-traitor%E2%80%99-566

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[GreenYouth] Re: seems intriguing-

[damodar prasad]

Basically it is sense.
...common?  ...I dont know.. bcoz it bizzare to say so..

the term "Intriguing" attributes a lot to otherwise basic sense in case of
all "private property" related matters..
well. when finally *private property is abolished*, i hope *passwords
will also be abolished in the promised land*..bcoz there is no question of
theft... (forget prodhoun v/s marx, for a while)... and  even *free software
* will not be so "radically" appealing as apples are not forbidden .
and sex is both free hard and software. ..
till then .such advises,perhapas matters..

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:57 PM, venukm  wrote:

>
> Please don't submit your password to anyone, other than to register
> (where you provide a password that you will use later) or to login to
> a
> registered site. Passwords should ideally contain lower case and upper
> case characters, numerals and other characters (such as @, #, $, etc.)
> to make it secure. And protect your password as carefully as you can.
> Better not even write it down anywhere. Don't trust anyone who asks
> for
> your password without reason.
>
> Best
> --
> Dr. V. Sasi Kumar
> Please visit http://keralachinthakal.blogspot.com
>
>
>
> On 10 Aug, 21:36, Venugopalan K M  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I get certain messages in the names of friends , inviting me to join
> some
> > new network; but it comes as some partially hidden message asking for
> > submitting my password
> >
> > The sender expects the response to be sent to this id:
> > -- 
>  >
> > This looks quite far from probable that my best friends address me
> without
> > using their personal ids but using their names, though I don't rule out
> > chances for that as well.
> >
> > Before submitting my password there , I like to get personal mails from
> my
> > dear friends in confirmation and otherwise I would request them to check
> if
> > any fraud is taking place using their names as a consequence of their
> > joining some groups with ulterior motives.
> >
> > If there is nothing that looks odd, please ignore my message.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Venu .
> >
> > http://venukm.blogspot.com
> >
> > http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur
> >
> > http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com
> >
>

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[GreenYouth] Re: Publication on the 'modernizing' Left in Asia

[damodar prasad]

the realm of necessity is left
behind,” and he gives this rather long rhetoric about freedom. Then at the
end of it he says, “Therefore, limiting the length of the working day, is a
crucial demand.” So you go from a kind of revolutionary rhetoric to an
almost reformist, kind of practical demand right now. And I think the
difference between a reformist and a revolutionary is not necessarily that
you do radical things all the time, but it is that at a given moment, you
may all do the same thing, i.e. demand living wage, but you do it with a
different objective, and that is as a long-term transition. A
transformation, which is what you may have in mind, and I think that Marx
was very well aware that if people are working 18-20 hours a day, 7 days a
week, they are not going to be very revolutionary in their consciousness.
They are going to be so damn tired, that they are not going to have time for
anything, and therefore, creating spaces and possibilities for people to
think of other possibilities is a precursor to a more general
transformation. That is one of things that I certainly found out in the
living wage campaign in Baltimore. People working two jobs, working 80 hours
a week, and they do not have time to organize, they hardly have time to have
a life, let alone be active in community organizations, and active as
political organizers. It is very difficult to do that when you are in that
situation.



On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM, damodar prasad wrote:

> Thank you, Luisa.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Luisa Steur wrote:
>
>>  For those of you who might be interested, I attach the recently
>> published Forum debate on "Accumulation by dispossession and Asia's
>> "modernizing" Left", which I edited and wrote an intro to for the journal
>> Focaal.
>> The contents of the forum is as follows:
>>
>> FORUM
>>
>>
>>
>> *Accumulation by dispossession and Asia’s ‘modernizing’ Left *
>>
>> edited by Luisa Steur
>>
>>
>>
>> What’s left? Land expropriation, socialist ‘modernizers’, and peasant
>> resistance in Asia
>>
>> *Luisa Steur and Ritanjan Das*
>>
>>
>>
>> The meaning of Nandigram: Corporate land invasion, people’s power, and the
>> Left in India
>>
>> *Tanika Sarkar and Sumit Chowdhury*
>>
>>
>>
>> “Communist” dispossession and “reactionary” resistance: The ironies of the
>> parliamentary Left in West-Bengal
>>
>> *Projit Bihari Mukharji*
>>
>>
>>
>> Land expropriation, protest, and impunity in rural China
>>
>> *Bo Zhao*
>>
>>
>>
>> Agricultural land conversion and its effects on farmers in contemporary
>> Vietnam
>>
>> *Nguyen Van Suu*
>>
>> * *
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Luisa
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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[GreenYouth] Sach Ka Samana- the scandal of truth!

[damodar prasad]

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/op-ed/scandal-sach-762
The issue was not really about banning. Comparing the show to Khajuraho was
a form of illiteracy. It is not the sociology of censorship that is
interesting, it is the construction of truth that offers more fruitful
possibilities.
It raises a fascinating list of questions. How is a fact different from
information? Are facts, data and information equivalent to the truth? Are
honesty and transparency the same? Is a confession, a statement of the
truth? Does truth telling TV-style demand the spectacle as a certificate of
truth?
On an ethical note, does not auctioning privacy make it true? How do
confessions rank as a form of truth telling in our culture? The responses to
the show became a problem in the sociology of knowledge.
Visualise an alternative set of circumstances. Imagine there is a politician
on the show. Would a confession that he took a bribe create a sensation?
Sting operators might feel unemployed, but beyond politicians and media, the
decibel level would be low.

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[GreenYouth] Re: Publication on the 'modernizing' Left in Asia

[damodar prasad]

Thank you, Luisa.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Luisa Steur  wrote:

>  For those of you who might be interested, I attach the recently published
> Forum debate on "Accumulation by dispossession and Asia's "modernizing"
> Left", which I edited and wrote an intro to for the journal Focaal.
> The contents of the forum is as follows:
>
> FORUM
>
>
>
> *Accumulation by dispossession and Asia’s ‘modernizing’ Left *
>
> edited by Luisa Steur
>
>
>
> What’s left? Land expropriation, socialist ‘modernizers’, and peasant
> resistance in Asia
>
> *Luisa Steur and Ritanjan Das*
>
>
>
> The meaning of Nandigram: Corporate land invasion, people’s power, and the
> Left in India
>
> *Tanika Sarkar and Sumit Chowdhury*
>
>
>
> “Communist” dispossession and “reactionary” resistance: The ironies of the
> parliamentary Left in West-Bengal
>
> *Projit Bihari Mukharji*
>
>
>
> Land expropriation, protest, and impunity in rural China
>
> *Bo Zhao*
>
>
>
> Agricultural land conversion and its effects on farmers in contemporary
> Vietnam
>
> *Nguyen Van Suu*
>
> * *
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Luisa
>
>
> >
>

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[GreenYouth] pdgin agitprop of the populist kind

[damodar prasad]

Hi,
Many of you must have read Indraneel Dasgupta's epw article "on Some Left
critiques of the Left". It seems some are higlighting as if this paper has
something revelator!!! Oye!!!  We should be asking the otherway:  is there
anything new in this article? It is a representation of the neo-orthodoxy so
popular amongst instituional economists. Its neo-orthodoxy in the sense it
is unwilling to carry the baggage of the Rightwing but wants itself to get
close to mainstream Left. Actually this is the neo-classical neo-populism
accepted at large by the policy making bodies and international instituions
like WB, IMF etc.

In Kerala, it may not be so popular in the popular media because it mostly
clings to left sentimentalism (the romanticism of worst kind!!). Economists
like Dr.Santakumar of CDS has been advocating this perspective for so
long openly stating this ideology as neo-liberal. However they did
articulate such ideas with a sense of democracy unilke the cantakerous ones
now associating with the left who are like leeches cluthcing to movements
and parties in transition for absolutely self-sake agenda.

Nirupam Sen himself in a post-election interview has clearly said why the WB
wanted to pursue agressive industrialkization and what price they have to
give for such deeds. Basically, what can be inferred from the interveiw is
the question of democracy and development. It is not like the conservative
opposition to industrialization and private capital but how the Left should
pursue a model different from say a Modi like development administrator. How
the issue of disposession and accumulation via disposession has to be
treated?

We are discussing all this in the contexct of Global finance crisis and also
politico-administrative crisis that we are witnessing at LALGARH...

Indarneel Banerjee' " one-liner" on the issue of disposession is
interesting: ".. the answer would lie in sustained, determined, intelligent
politico- adminstrative measures to mobilize the beneficiaries and
neutralize the losers".. What an important political advise to Left in times
of crises of neoliberalism!!!.

d.prasad,

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[GreenYouth] Sadanand Menon: Kicking in for the daughter-in-law

[damodar prasad]

http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=366170
*The learned Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph were strangely silent
on how to construe the opposite, that is, if a daughter-in-law were to kick
the husband or mother-in-law. Perhaps, that’s what prospective
daughters-in-law should be trained in, since the law is silent on it*

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[GreenYouth] On ethcial care of aged politicians

[damodar prasad]

Responsible politics also includes responsibility of the citizens, I
suppose. Such responsibilities of citizens should also be informed of a
thicker ethic like prevention of cruelty to political activists, leaders
etc. Citizens do have endorsed such ethical values in times when it is
really required. For example, when George Fernandez contested the election
this time, he lost even his security
deposit.
The decision to fail George Fernandez perhaps was informed by such an ethic.
Fernandez contested the election despite his ill-health and protest from his
own family members and party.



But such responsible actions of citizens are never reciprocated by the
political parties. Today’s the Hindu
(5/08/09)carries
a report on George Fernandez taking oath as a Rajyasabha member. As
the report says, George Fernandez while deciding to contest the election has
asserted that “socialist do not enter the Rajyasabha”. This means people’s
mandate is the only certificate the socialist in him cares for. Since these
are the words of George Fernandez, we would have only astounded if he had
continued to stick to this “socialist” position unwaveringly.



I looked at the picture of George Fernandez (in the above mentioned the
Hindu report) being helped by his colleagues to enter Rajyasabha for
sometime with utmost silence. It is terribly cheerless a sight to see a
fire-band trade unionist like George Fernandez being helped to climb the
steps.  The report also says, his party colleague Shivanand Tiwari had to
“..shout the oath of the office to his ears.” While assisting a friend of
mine to do some research work on the media reports of 1975-77, I had come
across one of the most remembered photos of George Fernandez bounded in
chains during emergency period.



Being responsible in or towards politics also should now include preventing
all kinds of cruelty against politicians. Aren’t we being cruel by forcing
one time political stalwarts like George Fernandez to take up our “cause” in
Rajyasabha even at this miserable period when he should’ve comfortably
retired and contemplated on the setbacks of socialist politics in India and
also write a peppered memoir on what happened in-between the dethroning of
Morarji Desai and subsequent crowning of Charan Singh.



In this context, one may also read what Asok Mitra has to say about George
Fernandez in his article: “THE FATE OF MAN - The gradual decline of a hero
who once could do no
wrong”.



PS:

In the context of Kerala , whether prevention of cruelty against political
leaders has any importance is anybody’s guess.

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[GreenYouth] George Fernandez&Irresponisble Politics

[damodar prasad]

Responsible politics also includes responsibility of the citizens, I
suppose. Such responsibilities of citizens should also be informed of a
thicker ethic like prevention of cruelty to political activists, leaders
etc. Citizens do have endorsed such ethical values in times when it is
really required. For example, when George Fernandez contested the election
this time , he
lost even his security deposit. The decision to fail George Fernandez
perhaps was informed by such an ethic. Fernandez contested the election
despite his ill-health and protest from his own family members and party.



But such responsible actions of citizens are never reciprocated by the
political parties. Today’s the Hindu (5/08/09) carries a
reporton
George Fernandez taking oath as a Rajyasabha member. As the report
says,
George Fernandez while deciding to contest the election has asserted that
“socialist do not enter the Rajyasabha”. This means people’s mandate is the
only certificate the socialist in him cares for. Since these are the words
of George Fernandez, we would have only astounded if he had continued to
stick to this “socialist” position unwaveringly.



I looked at the picture of George Fernandez (in the above mentioned the
Hindu report) being helped by his colleagues to enter Rajyasabha for
sometime with utmost silence. It is terribly cheerless a sight to see a
fire-band trade unionist like George Fernandez being helped to climb the
steps.  The report also says, his party colleague Shivanand Tiwari had to
“..shout the oath of the office to his ears.” While assisting a friend of
mine to do some research work on the media reports of 1975-77, I had come
across one of the most remembered photos of George Fernandez bounded in
chains during emergency period.



Being responsible in or towards politics also should now include preventing
all kinds of cruelty against politicians. Aren’t we being cruel by forcing
one time political stalwarts like George Fernandez to take up our “cause” in
Rajyasabha even at this miserable period when he should’ve comfortably
retired and contemplated on the setbacks of socialist politics in India and
also write a peppered memoir on what happened in-between the dethroning of
Morarji Desai and subsequent crowning of Charan Singh.


In this context, one may also read what Asok Mitra has to say about George
Fernandez in his article: “THE FATE OF MAN - The gradual decline of a hero
who once could do no
wrong”
.


PS:

In the context of Kerala , whether prevention of cruelty against political
leaders has any importance is anybody’s guess.

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[GreenYouth] Re: A Serious Joke

[damodar prasad]

ഇതിലെ  ഏക  തമാശ *ചൂട് * *പിടിച്ച  ചര്‍ച്ച*  എന്ന വിശേഷണമാണ് .. *
ചൂട്  ബാധിച്ച   forwards* എന്നാണ്  ബെസ്റ്റ് .

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:56 AM, neelan neelakandan  wrote:

>   i too found no joke in it! May be we got joked on!!!
> Neelan
>
> --- On *Tue, 4/8/09, Sebin Jacob * wrote:
>
>
> From: Sebin Jacob 
> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: A Serious Joke
> To: greenyouth@googlegroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, 4 August, 2009, 9:33 PM
>
> What is so special in it?
>
>
> --
> Looking for local information? Find it on
> Yahoo! Local >
> 

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[GreenYouth] Re: Church welcoming 377 verdict- Chennai

[damodar prasad]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM, damodar prasad wrote:

> May I quote Bobby " from his recent article "Queering Religion" in
> thefishpond.in:
> "In so far as I know, across hegemonic barriers, many members of the queer
> community are practitioners of various religions to varying degrees. Some of
> them observe fairly orthodox religious practices and few others are scholars
> in theology. What I do not understand is why even remotely there should be a
> conflict between the constitutional right to practice and preach religion
> and the right to sexuality, why they should be mutually exclusive? I suppose
> one of the answers might be in evolving *multiple critical queer
> theologies *across different religions"
>
>   On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, aryakrishnan ramakrishnan <
> aryakr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Church pressed to rethink and embrace the LGBT community
>> By: John Malhotra
>> Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 16:32 (IST)
>>
>> http://in.christiantoday.com/articles/church-urged-to-rethink-and-embrace-the-lgbt-community/4326.htm
>>
>> Over condemnation and justification the need of the hour is that
>> Church embrace and heal people of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
>> Transgender) community, expressed Protestant leaders who debated
>> homosexuality in Chennai last week.
>>
>> There were over hundred participants from major protestant churches
>> and also 50 from the LGBT community who gathered on July 28 to study
>> and debate on 'Indian Church and Repealing of the Section 377 of IPC'.
>>
>> Bishop DK Sahu, general secretary of the National Council of Churches
>> in India (NCCI), opened the study urging Church and Civil Society to
>> address the issue from a Christian perspective keeping with its tenets
>> of "love, just and inclusiveness".
>>
>> He welcomed the decriminalising of homosexuality by the Delhi High
>> Court July 2 and said homosexuals must not be branded as criminals,
>> but they should be "nurtured and helped out” by Churches as part of
>> creation.
>>
>> Rev. Dr. V. Devasahayam, the chairperson of the Tamilnadu Christian
>> Council and the CSI Bishop in Chennai also gave a more favorable
>> impression on the decision that permitted homosexual sex between
>> consenting adults.
>>
>> The Delhi HC judgement, he said, has helped the Church to understand
>> the issue of ‘human sexuality’. "Condemning them and rejecting them
>> are easy but the Church is not called to behave so. Churches should
>> reread the scriptures which refer to homosexuality and unnatural sex
>> from present context," he said.
>>
>> He furthers his view by referring to Luther’s theology of salvation by
>> grace. “Since God of the Bible is so gracious enough towards all
>> humankind why do we have a confrontive attitude and combative
>> approach,” he asked.
>>
>> He continues that even scientific studies proved homosexual cases were
>> ‘genetical’ and concludes that they also contain God's image. “By
>> ignoring and discriminating them we insult our creator," he says.
>>
>> He exhorted the "Indian Church to accompany people of different sexual
>> orientation with her for holistic living and execute the mission of
>> God towards just and inclusive society."
>>
>> A Catholic priest Fr. Henry Jerome is also of an opinion that Church
>> must study the case of homosexuals before "speaking out of the
>> context".
>>
>> Upset over the uproar of Churches on the issue, he says, "Condemnation
>> and exclusion will make the Church ‘un-contextual’ but the Church is
>> to be ‘in-contextual’," adding, "Church must be human right defenders
>> of the LGBT communities."
>>
>> The members of the LGBT community also expressed their views during
>> the debate. Mr. Anto James asks: "I did not opt for this sexual
>> orientation but I am with it is whose fault? Our life is similar to a
>> born visually disabled person brought to Jesus by the people and
>> asking ‘On whose sin he born as blind?’ Whose fault am I born like
>> this?"
>>
>> The debate organised by the NCCI Commission on Justice Peace and
>> Creation was participated by the Church of South India, Marthoma,
>> Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Churches, Arcot Lutheran Church, Methodist
>> Churches in India, Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church, Salvation Army,
>> Orthodox Church and Evangelical Churches in India, Tamilnadu
>> Theological Seminary, Gurukul, Madras Theological College, World
>> Vision and others.
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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[GreenYouth] Re: Church welcoming 377 verdict- Chennai

[damodar prasad]

May I quote Bobby "Queering Religion" from his recent article in
thefishpond.in:
"In so far as I know, across hegemonic barriers, many members of the queer
community are practitioners of various religions to varying degrees. Some of
them observe fairly orthodox religious practices and few others are scholars
in theology. What I do not understand is why even remotely there should be a
conflict between the constitutional right to practice and preach religion
and the right to sexuality, why they should be mutually exclusive? I suppose
one of the answers might be in evolving *multiple critical queer theologies
*across different religions"

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:14 PM, aryakrishnan ramakrishnan <
aryakr...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Church pressed to rethink and embrace the LGBT community
> By: John Malhotra
> Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 16:32 (IST)
>
> http://in.christiantoday.com/articles/church-urged-to-rethink-and-embrace-the-lgbt-community/4326.htm
>
> Over condemnation and justification the need of the hour is that
> Church embrace and heal people of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
> Transgender) community, expressed Protestant leaders who debated
> homosexuality in Chennai last week.
>
> There were over hundred participants from major protestant churches
> and also 50 from the LGBT community who gathered on July 28 to study
> and debate on 'Indian Church and Repealing of the Section 377 of IPC'.
>
> Bishop DK Sahu, general secretary of the National Council of Churches
> in India (NCCI), opened the study urging Church and Civil Society to
> address the issue from a Christian perspective keeping with its tenets
> of "love, just and inclusiveness".
>
> He welcomed the decriminalising of homosexuality by the Delhi High
> Court July 2 and said homosexuals must not be branded as criminals,
> but they should be "nurtured and helped out” by Churches as part of
> creation.
>
> Rev. Dr. V. Devasahayam, the chairperson of the Tamilnadu Christian
> Council and the CSI Bishop in Chennai also gave a more favorable
> impression on the decision that permitted homosexual sex between
> consenting adults.
>
> The Delhi HC judgement, he said, has helped the Church to understand
> the issue of ‘human sexuality’. "Condemning them and rejecting them
> are easy but the Church is not called to behave so. Churches should
> reread the scriptures which refer to homosexuality and unnatural sex
> from present context," he said.
>
> He furthers his view by referring to Luther’s theology of salvation by
> grace. “Since God of the Bible is so gracious enough towards all
> humankind why do we have a confrontive attitude and combative
> approach,” he asked.
>
> He continues that even scientific studies proved homosexual cases were
> ‘genetical’ and concludes that they also contain God's image. “By
> ignoring and discriminating them we insult our creator," he says.
>
> He exhorted the "Indian Church to accompany people of different sexual
> orientation with her for holistic living and execute the mission of
> God towards just and inclusive society."
>
> A Catholic priest Fr. Henry Jerome is also of an opinion that Church
> must study the case of homosexuals before "speaking out of the
> context".
>
> Upset over the uproar of Churches on the issue, he says, "Condemnation
> and exclusion will make the Church ‘un-contextual’ but the Church is
> to be ‘in-contextual’," adding, "Church must be human right defenders
> of the LGBT communities."
>
> The members of the LGBT community also expressed their views during
> the debate. Mr. Anto James asks: "I did not opt for this sexual
> orientation but I am with it is whose fault? Our life is similar to a
> born visually disabled person brought to Jesus by the people and
> asking ‘On whose sin he born as blind?’ Whose fault am I born like
> this?"
>
> The debate organised by the NCCI Commission on Justice Peace and
> Creation was participated by the Church of South India, Marthoma,
> Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Churches, Arcot Lutheran Church, Methodist
> Churches in India, Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church, Salvation Army,
> Orthodox Church and Evangelical Churches in India, Tamilnadu
> Theological Seminary, Gurukul, Madras Theological College, World
> Vision and others.
>
> >
>

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[GreenYouth] Re: ITMissi on advt: വലതു കൈയില ്‍ മറുകുള്ള ഇടതു കൈയില്‍ ആറു വിരലു ള്ളവര്‍ മാത്രം അപ േക്ഷിക്കുക

[damodar prasad]

*Green* turning Red; Red turning Safrron:  is only the reflections of the
prevailing political  condition ... Naturaly we will find new enthusiasts
for Left. Left has already seen RED in the recent elections with so much of
enthusiasts for its policy..

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[GreenYouth] Pvt.airlines strike- 2 edits: ET V/s Hindu

[damodar prasad]

*The world's no:1 proletarian newspaper spake thus:*
*Justifiable demand*
http://www.hindu.com/2009/08/03/stories/2009080352800800.htm
".Coming close on the heels of an SOS from the national carrier, Air
India, for a bailout package from the Centre, this is understandable."..
what is understable is the demands of pvt. airlines, according to the Hindu.


*The Crass Capitalist (neo-liberal) Pinky spake in an "uneven" manner*:
*Stand firm*
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Stand-firm/articleshow/4849947.cms
"In a country where air travel is still the preserve of a privileged few,
there can be no justification for using taxpayer money to bail out private
airlines. Today it is airlines, tomorrow it could be automobiles or steel or
two-wheelers or any other industry that feels it is now large enough to hold
the country to ransom."
*
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[GreenYouth] Re: ITMissi on advt: വലതു കൈയില ്‍ മറുകുള്ള ഇടതു കൈയില്‍ ആറു വിരലു ള്ളവര്‍ മാത്രം അപ േക്ഷിക്കുക

[damodar prasad]

In fact, IT mission has made a tremendous mistake in the fixing of criteria
of the candidates for the both the post. If they had applied their mind
properly, they would've certainly amended the criteria so as to induct one
of the "best" of minds of Kerala: K.Muraleedharan.

Muraledahran is in need of a job with a car, chauffer and *atyavsyam* pocket
money for the time being and importantly, he knows not only "E" but A-Z of
the Politriks, mother of all Governance; it is an inhertied wealth!

In addition, he has also registered with Creative Commons in the hope that
he will be freely used by any fronts under PL with not even obtaining prior
permission. He symbolizes the spirit of Free software.

As for Muralidharan being Akshaya Director, he certainly has the advantage
in social literacy compared to many formers who has served in the same post
and now has chosen to iIletarize other fields.
And on tecnhical literacy, it is beyond any doubt he has better Capability
maturity (CMM) standards in IT than some  beings who has recently joined
some platform for propogation of democracy and freedom divided by Leninism
in the name of freesoftware..

anyways, the new ICFOSS  along with new Leninist Freesoftware platform
members would reward Murali for being the first Free Softpolitician in the
world.

2009/8/2 ranju radha 

> "and he knows India."
>
> WHo? Nandan nilkeni?
> are u joking?
>
>
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[GreenYouth] A swing RIGHTWARDS!!

[damodar prasad]

*Latin America's swing to the right*

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/29/latin-america-right-elections
Progressive parties across Latin America can't find charismatic

A new political trend is taking shape in Latin America. For the past six
years or so, international political talk about the region has been all
about voters' swirl to the left. The new and under-reported story is the
re-emergence of the right.

Chile, Uruguay and Brazil are the three countries in the region that best
epitomise the mellow, well-behaved left that the international right is
willing to praise from time to time – as opposed to Ecuador, Nicaragua,
Venezuela and Bolivia. Their governments are seen as financially
responsible, have a good number of socially-friendly policies and the three
presidents – Michelle Bachelet, Tabaré Vázquez and Lula – are both respected
abroad and very popular at home.

The three countries are also in the midst of presidential election
campaigns. Uruguayans will be going to the polls in October and Chileans in
December, and while the Brazilian election is set for October 2010, the
campaign is already in its initial stages. One could rightfully suppose that
the left is cruising to victory. Strikingly though, the frontrunners are all
centre-to-right.

Optimists believe the tide may still change in favour of the progressive
candidates. According to surveys, the Socialist candidate in Uruguay, José
"Pepe" Mujica, leads the race by four points over the main conservative
candidate, the former president (1990-1995) Luis Alberto Lacalle. But he
would probably lose in the runoff when the two conservative parties
(Nacional and Colorado) are more than likely to join forces against the left
as they did in 1999.

In Chile, surveys have Eduardo Frei, the former president (1994-2000) and
candidate for the centre-left, lagging by less then 10 points behind
Sebastián Piñera, the billionaire businessman running on the right
(President Bachelet, who enjoys popularity rates of over 80% is still to
campaign openly for Frei).

In Brazil, the gap is wider: Lula's candidate, Dilma Rousseff, lags the top
opposition candidate, José Serra, by well over 20 points.

Progressive optimism is undermined if other regional elections this year are
considered benchmarks. The only president elected in Latin America this year
was a conservative businessman, Ricardo Martinelli, in Panama, and in
congressional elections in both Mexico and Argentina voters tilted to the
right.

In Mexico, the main leftist alternative, the PRD, ended in a far-off third
place after winning second place in a highly contended presidential election
in 2006. In Argentina, the centre-to-left faction of the Peronist party led
by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband and predecessor,
Néstor Kirchner, was handed a lofty nationwide defeat by more right-leaning
alternatives that included a rebel Peronist wing. While the Kirchners are
not nearly as popular as other regional leaders, their defeat is worth
taking into account within the bigger regional picture.

Critics say the Kirchners are not truly leftists, simply disguised as such.
The same can be heard in different degrees about Tabaré Vázquez in Uruguay,
and even by critics from the left of Bachelet and Lula, unhappy with the
pair's good relationships with the markets. However, if political stances
are analysed through the context of regional politics in the past 20 to 30
years and of the alliances sought on the international stage by current
leaders there is no question they all stand firmly on the left.

This leads to an obvious question: Why are popular, and even successful,
progressive leaders seeing their parties trail the opposition right,
especially given the legacy of the conservative governments of the 90s?

Immanuel Wallerstein recently attempted an explanation. The Latin American
left, he said, came to power "because of US distraction and good economic
times. Now it faces continued distraction but bad economic times. And it is
getting blamed because it's in power." The explanation is likely to find
many adherents, but may be a tad simplistic if one considers forecasts by
the likes of Ricardo Marino, head of the Latin American banking federation,
who said this month that the region will be the first in the world to pull
out of the global recession.

A second explanation may lie in the difficulty popular regional leaders have
finding younger and charismatic heirs. In Chile, the centre-to-left
governing Concertación front's best option ended up being a 67-year-old
former president. In Uruguay, the Frente Amplio front turned to Mujica, who
is 74. In Brazil, when Lula in late 2008 picked Rousseff as his candidate,
he chose a minister in her 60s whose recognition rates among voters was in
the single digits.

The left came to power in most of Latin America because of the awful legacy
of the conservative policies from previous decades. It was not easy: Lula
ran unsuccess

[GreenYouth] Aha! see how the Empire returns (it) back

[damodar prasad]

*Union fury as civil service outsources jobs to India*
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6731114.ece

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[GreenYouth] nation@ deficit.cultural _capital

[damodar prasad]

Read sadanand's take on cultural deficit.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=364735
All of a sudden, in the space of some weeks, the nation seems to be running
up a deficit on its cultural capital. In rapid succession we have lost
theatre personalities like Habib Tanvir and Kalindi Deshpande, writers like
Kamala Das, painters and sculptors like A P Santhanaraj, T R P Mookiah and
Tyeb Mehta and musicians like Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, D K Pattammal and now,
Gangubai Hanagal

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[GreenYouth] Re: Gangubai Hangal- New standards for the feminine singing

[damodar prasad]

renjith, Pls this video clip and report
http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10&pid=1960.
What a voice..
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ranjit Ranjit wrote:

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>   [image: File - In this May 19, 2005 file photo, legendary Indian
> classical singer]
> AP
>  – File
> - In this May 19, 2005 file photo, legendary Indian classical singer
> Gangubai Hangal is felicitated …
> Tue Jul 21, 3:02 am ET
>  NEW DELHI – Veteran Indian classical singer Gangubai Hangal, who battled
> caste and gender prejudices to establish a career that spanned more than
> seven decades, died Tuesday after being briefly hospitalized for respiratory
> problems. She was 96.
> Hangal was put on a life-support system Monday night after her condition
> turned critical, her doctor, Asho Kalamadani, told Press Trust of India
> news agency. Her grandson Manoj Hangal was quoted saying she died early
> Tuesday.
> With her powerful, deep voice, Hangal was often described as more gifted
> than most male singers of her time, and people had trouble matching her
> strong vocals with her small frame.
> She was one of the most well-known singers of Khayal, a style that belonged
> to the Hindustani, or north Indian, school of classical singing.
> She was born on March 5, 1913, in the southern state of Karnataka and
> trained under Sawai Gandharva, a respected guru.
> She remembered how upper caste people used to come to her concerts when she
> was invited to peform and after wards when food was served she has to sit
> seperately.  She had a strong voice which  make people assume sometimes her
> as a man,there she makes an impact on feminine singing standards, where
> shrill   and effiminate voice is the only consideration for female singers.
> Born into a family of boatmen, considered low caste in Hinduism's complex
> caste structure, Hangal battled that prejudice as well as the notion that
> singing wasn't an appropriate profession for a woman of her generation.
> She died in Hubli, a city in Karnataka state, where she lived, PTI
> reported.
> She is survived by two sons.
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[GreenYouth] A new life for the IMF: Capitalising on crisis

[damodar prasad]

"The logic of providing assistance to developing countries is to help them
adopt expansionary policies in a time of economic downturn. Yet the IMF is
forcing countries in financial distress to pursue contractionary policies -
the mirror image of the stimulative policies carried out by the rich
countries (and supported by the IMF, for the rich countries).
The Fund's loans since September 2008 to countries rocked by the financial
crisis almost uniformly require budget cuts, wage freezes and interest rate
hikes. The first nine 'IMF loans to countries affected by the crisis clearly
demonstrate that the IMF is still prescribing pro-cyclical policies of
fiscal and monetary policy tightening,' says Bhumika Muchhala of the Penang,
Malaysia-based Third World Network. 'The Fund's crisis loans still contain
the old policy conditions of cutting public sector expenditures, reducing
fiscal deficits and increasing interest rates - which is the stark opposite
of the expansionary, stimulus policies being supported in the G20
countries.'"

More on IMF's resurgent, but unchanged policies:
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/resurgence/2009/twr225.htm

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[GreenYouth] Saddest of all are the Leftist supporters of Ahmadinejad- Zizek

[damodar prasad]

 *"There are several crucial conclusions to be drawn from this insight.
First, Ahmadinejad is not the hero of the Islamist poor, but a genuine,
corrupted, Islamo-Fascist populist­-an Iranian version of Italian President
Silvio Berlusconi. Ahmadinejad’s mixture of clownish posturing and ruthless
power politics causes unease even among the majority of ayatollahs. His
demagogic distribution of crumbs to the poor should not deceive us. Organs
of police repression, a Westernized PR apparatus and a strong nouveau-riche
class—the result of the regime’s corruption—stand behind him. In fact,
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is not a working-class militia, but a
mega-corporation, the strongest concentration of wealth in the country*."..



*Iran on the Brink*
*Warning to the Persian cat: Don’t look down!*
*By Slavoj Zizek*

When an authoritarian regime approaches its final crisis, as a rule its
dissolution follows two steps. Before its collapse, a mysterious rupture
takes place. All of a sudden people know that the game is over, and then
they are no longer afraid. It is not only that the regime loses its
legitimacy, but that its own exercise of power is perceived as an impotent
panic reaction. We all know the classic scene from cartoons. The cat reaches
a precipice, but continues walking, unaware that there is no ground under
its feet. It falls only when it looks down and notices the abyss. When a
regime loses its authority, it is like a cat above the precipice: In order
to fall, it only has to be reminded to look down.

In Shah of Shahs, a classic account of the Khomeini revolution, Ryszard
Kapuscinski located the precise moment of this rupture. At a Tehran
crossroad, a single demonstrator refused to budge when a policeman shouted
at him to move, and the embarrassed policeman simply withdrew. Within a
couple of hours, all of Tehran knew about this incident. Although street
fights continued for weeks, everyone knew the Shah was finished. Is
something similar going on now?

There are many versions of the recent events in Tehran. Some observers view
the protests as the culmination of the pro-Western “reform movement” along
the lines of the “orange” revolution in Ukraine—a secular reaction to the
Khomeini revolution. They support the protests as the first step toward a
new liberal, democratic, secular Iran freed of Muslim fundamentalism.

But some skeptics think that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad really won, making him the
voice of the majority, while the support of Mir-Hossein Mousavi comes from
the middle class (who are the minority) and its gilded youth. In other
words, let’s drop the illusions and face the fact that, in Ahmadinejad, Iran
has a president it deserves.

Then there are others who dismiss Mousavi as a member of the cleric
establishment with merely cosmetic differences from Ahmadinejad. Mousavi
wants to continue the atomic energy program, and he is against recognizing
Israel. Plus he enjoyed Khomeini’s full support as a prime minister during
the 1980s war with Iraq.

Leftists out of the loop

The saddest of all are the Leftist supporters of Ahmadinejad. According to
them, Ahmadinejad won because he stood up for the country’s independence,
exposed elite corruption and used oil wealth to boost the incomes of the
poor majority. This is, so we are told, the true Ahmadinejad behind the
Western media image of a Holocaust-denying fanatic. Further, what is going
on now in Iran is a repetition of the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad
Mossadegh—another Anglo-American-instigated coup against a legitimate
president. This view ignores factual reality along with the high electoral
participation (up from the usual 55 percent to 85 percent), which can only
be explained as a protest vote. It also displays an inability to understand
the demonstrations as a genuine expression of popular will, and it
patronizingly assumes that for backward Iranians, Ahmadinejad is good
enough. They are not yet sufficiently mature to be ruled by a secular Left.

Conflicting as they are, all these versions read the Iranian protests along
the axis of Islamic hardliners versus pro-Western liberal reformists, which
is why they find it so difficult to understand Mousavi. Is he a
Western-backed reformer who wants more personal freedom and a market
economy, or a member of the cleric establishment whose victory would not
affect the nature of the regime in any serious way? Such oscillations
demonstrate that all interpretations miss the true nature of the protests.

The green tide

The green color adopted by the Mousavi supporters and the cries of “Allah
akbar!” that resonate from the roofs of Tehran in the evening darkness show
that protesters see this as the repetition of the 1979 Khomeini revolution,
undoing the revolution’s corruption and returning to its roots. It is not
only programmatic; it concerns even more the crowds’ modes of activity: the
emphatic unity of the people, creative self-organization, and
improvisational articulation of protest. It is a unique mixture

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: Media and the entrenched Patriarchy!!1

[damodar prasad]

*Maitree, an
organisation working for the rights of women, said it was “shocked” to
see the graphic on the front page of the paper “where you have
portrayed men from the administration in saris suggesting that their
inaction makes them women”.*
*“The implication, thereby, is clearly that women are inactive and
incompetent,” the letter said. “This is both a demeaning and
humiliating stance towards women and we are amazed that a leading
English daily holds such regressive attitudes and views.”
*
Suppose, the women administrators were attired in jeans and denim shirts, to
show the pro-active atttude,what would've been the reaction?


On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Venugopalan K M wrote:

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> Date: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:49 AM
> Subject: Media and the entrenched Patriarchy!!1
> To: santhosh.chandrashe...@gmail.com, kmvenuan...@gmail.com,
> ckvishwan...@gmail.com
>
>
> Protests against Telegraph visual
> A STAFF REPORTER
>
> Calcutta, July 18: Two women’s organisations today protested against
> the publication of a graphic in The Telegraph that depicted the
> state’s top five administrators in saris.
>
> The visual accompanied a report about the state of inertia in the
> administration.
>
> In a letter handed over to The Telegraph today, Maitree, an
> organisation working for the rights of women, said it was “shocked” to
> see the graphic on the front page of the paper “where you have
> portrayed men from the administration in saris suggesting that their
> inaction makes them women”.
>
> “The implication, thereby, is clearly that women are inactive and
> incompetent,” the letter said. “This is both a demeaning and
> humiliating stance towards women and we are amazed that a leading
> English daily holds such regressive attitudes and views.”
>
> Before handing over the letter, members of Maitree staged a
> demonstration in front of The Telegraph office, demanding that the
> paper apologise.
>
> The Paschimbanga Ganatantrik Mahila Samity, a CPM-backed women’s
> organisation, said the visual “exposes very clearly the entrenched
> patriarchal attitude that lies hidden behind the apparently
> super-modern and liberal façade of your newspaper”.
>
> Referring to a sentence that accompanied the visual — “We apologise to
> women who may feel the elegant sari has been wasted on our
> administrators” — the organisation said that “it is, in fact, a crude
> mockery of women’s sense of seriousness of occasion”.
>
> Telegraph replies
>
> For some months now, Bengal has looked like a state without an
> administration. Friday’s bandh and the unchecked vandalism on its eve
> further demonstrated the lack of will on the administration’s part to
> enforce the law.
>
> In yesterday’s paper, the five top administrators were depicted as men
> in saris to illustrate the paralysis of government draped in humour.
>
> Some of our readers and others have taken affront, seeing in it an
> assumption that women are weak. It is possible some may have
> associated the administrators in the graphic with women, which was not
> the intention of the visual device at all. We are sorry if the graphic
> gave that impression.
>
> Some others have, however, expressed appreciation of the political
> message we sought to communicate and the humour.
>
> The Telegraph practises gender equality. It also believes that women
> have long grown beyond stereotypes as the weaker sex in saris. Sonia
> Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee are just two examples of women in positions
> of strength. There are a million other unknown women — in saris or
> business suits — in whose daily shows of strength we rejoice in the
> pages of our newspaper. We hope our readers will see the Gang of Five
> in Saris in that context.
>
> We also hope despite all its divisions, true to 19th century poet
> Ishwar Gupta’s words — Eto bhanga Bangadesh, tobu range bhara — Bengal
> still enjoys a good laugh.
>
>
> --
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>
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>
> http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com
>
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[GreenYouth] Necessity has no law —Giorgio Agamben

[damodar prasad]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C07%5C17%5Cstory_17-7-2009_pg3_4
A recurrent opinion posits the concept of necessity as the foundation of the
state of exception. According to a tenaciously repeated Latin adage (a
history of the *adagia’s *strategic function in legal literature has yet to
be written), *necessitas legem non habet,* “necessity has no law,” which is
interpreted in two opposing ways: “necessity does not recognise any law” and
“necessity creates its own law” *(necessite fait loi).* In both cases, the
theory of the state of exception is wholly reduced to the theory of the *status
necessitatis,* so that a judgment concerning the existence of the latter
resolves the question concerning the legitimacy of the former. Therefore,
any discussion of the structure and meaning of the state of exception first
requires an analysis of the legal concept of necessity.

The principle according to which *necessitas legem non habet* was formulated
in Gratian’s *Decretum.* It appears there two times: first in the gloss and
then in the text. The gloss (which refers to a passage in which Gratian
limits himself to stating generically that “many things are done against the
rule out of necessity or for whatever other cause” appears to attribute to
necessity the power to render the illicit licit (Si *propter necessitatem
aliquid fit, illud licite fit.: quia quad non est licitum in lege,
necessitas facitlicitum. Item necessitas legem non habet* [If something is
done out of necessity, it is done licitly, since what is not licit in law
necessity makes licit. Likewise necessity has no law]).

But the sense in which this should be taken is made clearer by a later
passage in Gratian’s text concerning the celebration of the mass. After
having stated that the sacrifice must be offered on the altar or in a
consecrated place, Gratian adds, “It is preferable not to sing or listen to
the mass than to celebrate it in places where it should not be celebrated,
unless it happens because of a supreme necessity, for necessity has no
law”*(nisi pro summa necessitate contingat, quoniam necessitas legem
non habet).
*More than rendering the illicit licit, necessity acts here to justify a
single, specific case of transgression by means of an exception.

This is clear in the way Thomas in the *Summa theologica *develops and
comments on this principle precisely in relation to the sovereign’s power to
grant dispensations from the law (Prima *secundae, q. 96, art. 6: utrum ei
qui subditur legi, liceat praeter verba legis agere *[whether one who is
subject to law may act against the letter of the law]):

If observing the letter of the law does not entail an immediate danger that
must be dealt with at once, it is not in the power of any man to interpret
what is of use or of harm to the city; this can be done only by the
sovereign who, in a case of this sort, has the authority to grant
dispensations from the law. If there is, however, a sudden danger, regarding
which there is no time for recourse to a higher authority, the very
necessity carries a dispensation with it, for necessity is not subject to
the law *[ipsa necessitas dispensationem habetannexam, quia necessitas non
subditur legit.*

Here, *the theory of necessity is none other than a theory of the exception
(dispensatio) by virtue of which a particular case is released from the
obligation to observe the law. Necessity is not a source of law, nor does it
properly suspend the law; it merely releases a particular case from the
literal application of the norm: “He who acts beyond the letter of the law
in a case of necessity does not judge by the law itself but judges by the
particular case, in which he sees that the letter of the law is not to be
observed [non iudicat de ipsa lege, sed iudicat de casu singulari, in quo
videt verba legis observanda non esse]:’ The ultimate ground of the
exception here is not necessity but the principle according to which “every
law is ordained for the common well-being of men, and only for this does it
have the force and reason of law [vim et rationem legis]; if it fails in
this regard, it has no capacity to bind [virtutem obligandi non habet]’ In
the case of necessity, the vis obligandi of the law fails, because in this
case the goal of salus hominum is lacking. What is at issue here is clearly
not a status or situation of the juridical order as such (the state of
exception or necessity); rather, in each instance it is a question of a
particular case in which the vis and ratio of the law find no application.

*It is *only with the moderns that the state of necessity tends to be
included within the juridical order and to appear as a true and proper
“state” of the law. The principle according to which necessity defines a
unique situation in which the law loses its vis obligandi* (this is the
sense of the adage necessitas legem non habet) is reversed, becoming the
principle according to which necessity constitutes, so to speak, the
ultimate grou

[GreenYouth] beemapalli and human rights- bobby

[damodar prasad]

http://www.thejasnews.com/portal/index.jsp#8474

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[GreenYouth] Pip was right

[damodar prasad]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/13/philosophy-justice-enlightenment-social-contract

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[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: Deshabhimani aadine pattiyakkumbol

[damodar prasad]

Abdul Rasheed:
Am not going to contest what you said including personal remarks about me.
Because, I should also ponder over whatever you said.
But I will just ask one question: this problem of partial blindness is sure
a problem. Do you think, you have a  clear vision of things, issues and is
open?


2009/7/7 Abdul Rasheed 

>  *damaodar prasad *
> **
> *You are partially blind - that is your problem. *
> **
> *When about 74 common people (workers of CPI-M and their family members)were 
> killed in Lalgat in WB, nobody shed here any tears (Damodar
> was sleeping) Nobody were worried about the loss of their families. Nobody
> wrote long artcles about it. *
> **
> *When maoists brought under their contral a region of a state, using AK-47
> guns and bombs, nobody find wrong in it. When hundreds of families left from
> Lalghat, nobody feel sad on it. For them, it was normal things. *
> 
> *But when the govt took strong action against these anti-state elements,
> everybody start to cry on behalf of 'human rights' *
> **
> *Damodar, search and search about the priorities of issues - but take
> care, to find out anti-left issues to be discussed. *
> **
> *Congress and BJP are the biggest rights in the country and only CPI-M,
> CPI, RSP are wrongs. *
>
> *best of luck*
>   *regards *
> *Rasheed *
>
>
>
>
> 2009/7/7 damodar prasad 
>
>> Hello Fatima,
>> The pedantic tone of your advise makes me ask just two questions. You may
>> have very inconvienient answers, I know. Pls. let us know it anyway:
>> 1. We keep silent on issues
>> Which are those issues on which a raising of voice is required? Is this
>> silence restrcited to this domain or were you speaking about a broader
>> domain of media?
>> 2. ..Eversince barking at left...
>> Do you mean CPI(M)? or Left in a very generic sense? Does it include many
>> new mobilizations perhaps not under a particular party banner by name CPI or
>> CPIM?
>> 3. The kind of hierarchy...
>> Pls. let us know the priority of issues to be debated. That makes it more
>> convienient for enabling a discussion than making some generalized remark
>>
>> That said, there was no reason to blow out of proportion a clerical
>> mistake of desabhimani .
>>
>> 2009/7/7 Fathima Naeema 
>>
>>  Hello,
>>> Our participants are in hurry to grill Deshabhimani for a clerical
>>> mistake! A mistake in translation, that in ways not going to affect any of
>>> us. But we keep silent on issues which are really important to us. Its very
>>> convenient for many of us to simply sit and make comments on this kinds of
>>> issues ever since barking at left has become a fashion and convenient job.
>>> The kind of hierarchy of criticism that we construct here is very
>>> problematic.
>>>
>>> I dont think that making goat a dog is a crime in translation!
>>>
>>>
>>> F. Naeema
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/7/7 Abdul Rasheed 
>>>
>>>>  Damodar
>>>> thax for your advice - but no body can beat you in this competition
>>>> since you are expert to turn a *goat into dog.** *
>>>> കഥ അറിയാതെ ആട്ടം കാണരുത്
>>>> I posted my email as a supporting comment to one Mr. Mohanan's email.
>>>> Read it carefully, before jumping to comment.
>>>> regards
>>>>   Rasheed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/7/7 damodar prasad 
>>>>
>>>>> haha..
>>>>> While I have traversed history, EMS etc etc. Abdul Rasheed's attempt
>>>>> was more "modest" in traversing "contempoary history" and little 
>>>>> "confusing"
>>>>> for him to draw us to the generic topic of "media-confusion" from the
>>>>> comments on an error in Desabhimani...:-) :-) :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> see
>>>>> for instance:
>>>>>
>>>>> Abdul Rasheed: "Before, Manorama and Mathrubhumi published as a front
>>>>> page news in big titles that CBI submitted to kerala governer a CD of
>>>>> telephone conversation between Advocate General and a CPI-M leader
>>>>> concerning the SNC lavlin case (as a proof to prosecute Pinarayi vijayan).
>>>>>
>>>>> Later CBI rejected this news.
>>>>>
>>>>> But the media ( hi-tec theives and syndicate ) never say sorry to the
>>>>> people for this fabricated news.
>

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: Deshabhimani aadine pattiyakkumbol

[damodar prasad]

Hello Fatima,
The pedantic tone of your advise makes me ask just two questions. You may
have very inconvienient answers, I know. Pls. let us know it anyway:
1. We keep silent on issues
Which are those issues on which a raising of voice is required? Is this
silence restrcited to this domain or were you speaking about a broader
domain of media?
2. ..Eversince barking at left...
Do you mean CPI(M)? or Left in a very generic sense? Does it include many
new mobilizations perhaps not under a particular party banner by name CPI or
CPIM?
3. The kind of hierarchy...
Pls. let us know the priority of issues to be debated. That makes it more
convienient for enabling a discussion than making some generalized remark

That said, there was no reason to blow out of proportion a clerical mistake
of desabhimani .

2009/7/7 Fathima Naeema 

> Hello,
> Our participants are in hurry to grill Deshabhimani for a clerical mistake!
> A mistake in translation, that in ways not going to affect any of us. But we
> keep silent on issues which are really important to us. Its very convenient
> for many of us to simply sit and make comments on this kinds of issues ever
> since barking at left has become a fashion and convenient job. The kind of
> hierarchy of criticism that we construct here is very problematic.
>
> I dont think that making goat a dog is a crime in translation!
>
>
> F. Naeema
>
>
>
>
> 2009/7/7 Abdul Rasheed 
>
>>  Damodar
>> thax for your advice - but no body can beat you in this competition since
>> you are expert to turn a *goat into dog.** *
>> കഥ അറിയാതെ ആട്ടം കാണരുത്
>> I posted my email as a supporting comment to one Mr. Mohanan's email.
>> Read it carefully, before jumping to comment.
>> regards
>>   Rasheed
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/7/7 damodar prasad 
>>
>>> haha..
>>> While I have traversed history, EMS etc etc. Abdul Rasheed's attempt was
>>> more "modest" in traversing "contempoary history" and little "confusing" for
>>> him to draw us to the generic topic of "media-confusion" from the comments
>>> on an error in Desabhimani...:-) :-) :-)
>>>
>>> see
>>> for instance:
>>>
>>> Abdul Rasheed: "Before, Manorama and Mathrubhumi published as a front
>>> page news in big titles that CBI submitted to kerala governer a CD of
>>> telephone conversation between Advocate General and a CPI-M leader
>>> concerning the SNC lavlin case (as a proof to prosecute Pinarayi vijayan).
>>>
>>> Later CBI rejected this news.
>>>
>>> But the media ( hi-tec theives and syndicate ) never say sorry to the
>>> people for this fabricated news.
>>> __
>>>  Yes, anvar - our media is living in 'confusions' (or they know how to
>>> make confusions) and they lead us to confusions
>>> ---
>>>
>>> If I have a future, your are "presently" into it. but it is not "hot dog"
>>> as such but ice-cold freezing one... but sad you will never turn a
>>> winner.. bcoz you have better competitors amongst your company..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/7/7 Abdul Rasheed 
>>>
>>>  *Sorry, I didnot know that an error in "Deshabhimani" was able to draw
>>>> the whole history of the world. I did not know, the word 'hot dog' had
>>>> 'hot' relations with leninism, capitalism, E.M.S., communism, and above 
>>>> all,
>>>> it had the link with 75 years of soviet union's history --- wonderful.
>>>> *
>>>> **
>>>> *Dear Damodar, you have good future in "hot dog' eating competition -
>>>> you can be the winner in next time*
>>>> **
>>>> *Good luck *
>>>> *Rasheed *
>>>> **
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/7/7 damodar prasad 
>>>>
>>>>  Ref to Abdul rasheed's general comments on "confusion" creation.. not
>>>>> on "hot dog", which is only regerttable error.
>>>>> ..the only one who are not "confucious" are Abdul Rasheed and Co.
>>>>> Strange wisdom!! I must say. Really to be appreciated.
>>>>> Since you are "endowed" with specially made early 20th century
>>>>> framework of Leninism, everything can be flitered to "anti-communist"
>>&

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: Deshabhimani aadine pattiyakkumbol

[damodar prasad]

haha..
While I have traversed history, EMS etc etc. Abdul Rasheed's attempt was
more "modest" in traversing "contempoary history" and little "confusing" for
him to draw us to the generic topic of "media-confusion" from the comments
on an error in Desabhimani...:-) :-) :-)

see
for instance:

Abdul Rasheed: "Before, Manorama and Mathrubhumi published as a front page
news in big titles that CBI submitted to kerala governer a CD of telephone
conversation between Advocate General and a CPI-M leader concerning the SNC
lavlin case (as a proof to prosecute Pinarayi vijayan).

Later CBI rejected this news.

But the media ( hi-tec theives and syndicate ) never say sorry to the people
for this fabricated news.
__
Yes, anvar - our media is living in 'confusions' (or they know how to make
confusions) and they lead us to confusions
---

If I have a future, your are "presently" into it. but it is not "hot dog" as
such but ice-cold freezing one... but sad you will never turn a winner..
bcoz you have better competitors amongst your company..




2009/7/7 Abdul Rasheed 

>  *Sorry, I didnot know that an error in "Deshabhimani" was able to draw
> the whole history of the world. I did not know, the word 'hot dog' had
> 'hot' relations with leninism, capitalism, E.M.S., communism, and above all,
> it had the link with 75 years of soviet union's history --- wonderful. *
> **
> *Dear Damodar, you have good future in "hot dog' eating competition - you
> can be the winner in next time*
> **
> *Good luck *
> *Rasheed *
> **
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2009/7/7 damodar prasad 
>
>  Ref to Abdul rasheed's general comments on "confusion" creation.. not on
>> "hot dog", which is only regerttable error.
>> ..the only one who are not "confucious" are Abdul Rasheed and Co.
>> Strange wisdom!! I must say. Really to be appreciated.
>> Since you are "endowed" with specially made early 20th century framework
>> of Leninism, everything can be flitered to "anti-communist" tirades of
>> media. For almost, 75 years  erstwhile Soviet Union was "spreading" the
>> democratic deficit within the country as US-Capitalist media creation.
>> Finally, all the "confuscious" became zen buddhist one fine day after the
>> fall of the empire.
>>
>> Prior to the fall of erstwhile Soviet Union, EMS, yours dialectcial
>> theoritician applied formal logic and teased at those said the SU is going
>> to non-existence.
>> You must be rememebering what EMS said: Can humans return to Ape? On SU
>> turning capitlaist!!
>> I can understand you and your co mocking at others but why should you fool
>> yourself and how long would you continue to do that?
>>   2009/7/6 Abdul Rasheed 
>>
>>>  *Anwar *
>>> *Yes, anvar - our media is living in 'confusions' (or they know how to
>>> make confusions) and they lead us to confusions. *
>>> *സര്‍വത്ര കാന്ഫുഷന്‍*
>>> *regards *
>>> *Rasheed *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/7/6 Anivar Aravind 
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/7/6 Abdul Rasheed 
>>>>
>>>>>  *Mr. Mohanan*
>>>>> **
>>>>> *Good comments *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *Before, Manorama and Mathrubhumi published as a front page news in
>>>>> big titles that CBI submitted to kerala governer a CD of telephone
>>>>> conversation between Advocate General and a CPI-M leader concerning the 
>>>>> SNC
>>>>> lavlin case (as a proof to prosecute Pinarayi vijayan). *
>>>>>
>>>>> *Later CBI rejected this news.*
>>>>> 
>>>>> *But the media ( hi-tec theives and syndicate ) never say sorry to the
>>>>> people for this fabricated news. *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *regards *
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ആകെ കണ്‍ഫ്യൂഷനായല്ലോ .. ആട് ഇപ്പോ ലാവ്ലിനായോ .. അപ്പോ കള്ളന്‍ പട്ടിയെ
>>>> പിടിക്കാനിറങ്ങിയോ...   സിബിഐയും പട്ടിയെപ്പിടിക്കാന്‍ ഇറങ്ങിയോ ? ഇതെന്താ
>>>> പട്ടാളം സിനിമയോ
>>>> ആകെ കണ്‍ഫ്യൂഷന്‍ ..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2009/7/6 mohanan MS 
>>>>>
>>>>>  *ഹൈ ടെക്  കള്ളനും തേങ്ങാ കള്ളനും.*
>>>>>>  ഞങ്ങളുടെ നാട്ടില

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: Deshabhimani aadine pattiyakkumbol

[damodar prasad]

Ref to Abdul rasheed's general comments on "confusion" creation.. not on
"hot dog", which is only regerttable error.
..the only one who are not "confucious" are Abdul Rasheed and Co.
Strange wisdom!! I must say. Really to be appreciated.
Since you are "endowed" with specially made early 20th century framework of
Leninism, everything can be flitered to "anti-communist" tirades of media.
For almost, 75 years  erstwhile Soviet Union was "spreading" the democratic
deficit within the country as US-Capitalist media creation. Finally, all the
"confuscious" became zen buddhist one fine day after the fall of the empire.


Prior to the fall of erstwhile Soviet Union, EMS, yours dialectcial
theoritician applied formal logic and teased at those said the SU is going
to non-existence.
You must be rememebering what EMS said: Can humans return to Ape? On SU
turning capitlaist!!
I can understand you and your co mocking at others but why should you fool
yourself and how long would you continue to do that?
2009/7/6 Abdul Rasheed 

>  *Anwar *
> *Yes, anvar - our media is living in 'confusions' (or they know how to
> make confusions) and they lead us to confusions. *
> *സര്‍വത്ര കാന്ഫുഷന്‍*
> *regards *
> *Rasheed *
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2009/7/6 Anivar Aravind 
>
>
>>
>> 2009/7/6 Abdul Rasheed 
>>
>>>  *Mr. Mohanan*
>>> **
>>> *Good comments *
>>> **
>>> *Before, Manorama and Mathrubhumi published as a front page news in big
>>> titles that CBI submitted to kerala governer a CD of telephone conversation
>>> between Advocate General and a CPI-M leader concerning the SNC lavlin case 
>>> (as
>>> a proof to prosecute Pinarayi vijayan). *
>>>
>>> *Later CBI rejected this news.*
>>> 
>>> *But the media ( hi-tec theives and syndicate ) never say sorry to the
>>> people for this fabricated news. *
>>> **
>>> *regards *
>>>
>>
>> ആകെ കണ്‍ഫ്യൂഷനായല്ലോ .. ആട് ഇപ്പോ ലാവ്ലിനായോ .. അപ്പോ കള്ളന്‍ പട്ടിയെ
>> പിടിക്കാനിറങ്ങിയോ...   സിബിഐയും പട്ടിയെപ്പിടിക്കാന്‍ ഇറങ്ങിയോ ? ഇതെന്താ
>> പട്ടാളം സിനിമയോ
>> ആകെ കണ്‍ഫ്യൂഷന്‍ ..
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/7/6 mohanan MS 
>>>
>>>  *ഹൈ ടെക്  കള്ളനും തേങ്ങാ കള്ളനും.*
  ഞങ്ങളുടെ നാട്ടില്‍ പഞ്ഞ
 കര്‍ക്കിടകക്കാലത്ത്  രാത്രി കള്ളന്മാരിറങ്ങും.അത്യാവശ്യം വാഴക്കുല, പുറത്തു
 മറന്നു വച്ച് പോയ പാത്രങ്ങള്‍ അങ്ങിനെ അങ്ങിനെ അത്യാവശ്യം കുടുംബത്തിന്റെ
 പട്ടിണി മാറ്റാന്‍ വേണ്ട സാധനങ്ങള്‍ മാത്രം മതി ആ പാവം കള്ളനു. എന്നാല്‍
 പലപ്പോഴും നാട്ടുക്കാര്‍ പിടികൂടി കൈ വച്ച് വിടുകയും ചെയ്യാറുണ്ട് താനും 
 ,അതോടെ
 അവന്‍ നാട്ടിലെ അറിയപ്പെടുന്ന കള്ളനായി. പിന്നെ ഏതു കളവു നടന്നാലും
 ഇവനായിരിക്കും പ്രതി.അങ്ങനെ ഇണങിയും പിണങ്ങിയും ഉള്ള ഒരു ബന്ധമായിരിക്കും 
 ഇവനും
 സമൂഹവും തമ്മില്‍.
  ഇതില്‍ നിന്നും വ്യത്യസ്തന്‍ ആണ് ഹൈ ടെക്
 കള്ളന്‍. അത്യന്താധുനിക ഉപകരണങ്ങളുമായി വന്നു നമ്മളുടെ കുടുംബം അടിയോടെ
 മാന്തുന്നവനാനവന്‍. നമ്മള്‍ എന്തെങ്കിലും പ്രശ്നം ഉണ്ടാക്കാന്‍ 
 ശ്രമിക്കുമെന്ന്
 സംശയം തോന്നിയാല്‍ മതി നമ്മെ കുടുംബത്തോടെ ഉന്മൂലനം ചെയ്യാനും അവനു മടിയില്ല.
   ഇതില്‍ ആരാണ് വലിയ കള്ളന്‍, രണ്ടുപേരും
 കള്ളന്മാര്‍ തന്നെ എന്നാല്‍ രണ്ടു പേരോടും ഉള്ള നമ്മുടെ മനോഭാവത്തിനു
 മാറ്റമുണ്ട്.
  ഇത്രയും പറയാന്‍ കാരണമുണ്ട്. ഇന്നത്തെ
 ദേശാഭിമാനിയിലെയും മലയാള മനോരമയിലെയും മുന്‍ പേജ് വാര്‍ത്തയാണ്
 പ്രശ്നം.ദേശാഭിമാനിയിലെ പട്ടിവാര്‍ത്ത തന്നെ. ശരിയാണ്, ലേഖകന് പറ്റിയ അമളി
 അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ വിവരക്കേട് തന്നെ , സംശയമില്ല. ഇനി മനോരമയിലേക്ക്. ലാവലിന്‍ 
 പി.ബി
 യാണ് പ്രശ്നം. ഹെദ്ദിംഗ് ഞാന്‍ ഓര്‍ക്കുന്നില്ല. എങ്കിലും ഇതാണ് ഞാന്‍
 ചൂണ്ടിക്കാണിക്കുന്നത്. വി.എസ്. പറഞ്ഞു "വിജയ
 ." വി എസ് പറഞ്ഞ വാചകങ്ങള്‍ അതേപടി
 നല്‍കിയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഒന്നല്ല രണ്ടു വാചകങ്ങള്‍. ഈ ലേഖകന്‍ പി.ബി മെമ്പര്‍ അല്ല
 എന്ന് നമുക്കൊക്കെ അറിയാം. പിന്നെ ഈ വി എസിന്റെ വാചകങ്ങള്‍ എവിടുന്നു കിട്ടി,
 അദ്ദേഹം ഭാവിക്കുന്നത്, പി.ബി അംഗങ്ങളില്‍ ആരോ ചോര്‍ത്തി കൊടുത്തു എന്നാണു.
 പക്ഷെ നമുക്കറിയാം, വി എസ് അല്ലാതെ മറ്റാരും ഇത് ചെയ്യാന്‍ പി.ബിയില്‍
 ഇല്ലെന്നു. പക്ഷെ അദ്ദേഹം ഇത് ചെയ്യില്ലെന്നും കേരളതുകാര്‍ക്കറിയാം. പിന്നെ
 ലേഖകന് ഈ വാചകങ്ങള്‍ എവിടുന്നു കിട്ടി.ഹൈ ടെക് കള്ളന്റെ കളി കണ്ടോ? നമ്മള്‍
 സംശയിക്കില്ലായിരുന്നു, പക്ഷെ നമുക്കറിയാം ഏതൊരു കള്ളനും  തന്നെ പിടികൂടാനയി
 ഒരു തുമ്പ് അവശേഷിപ്പിക്കും എന്ന്. അത് ഇവിടെയും നടന്നു. പി.ബിയുടെ വായില്‍
 ബാലാനന്ദന്‍ റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ടും ഒക്കെ കയറ്റിവിട്ടു. അതൊക്കെ പലപ്രാവശ്യം പൊട്ടി
 തീര്‍ന്ന പടക്കമായതുകൊണ്ട് നമുക്ക് പെട്ടെന്ന് കാര്യം പിടികിട്ടി.
   അപ്പോള്‍ ഹൈ ടെക് കള്ളനും തേങ്ങാ കള്ളനും പിടി
 കിട്ടിയില്ലേ സുഹൃത്തുക്കളെ. തെങ്ങക്കള്ളനെ കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യാനും കൈ വയ്ക്കാനും
 എളുപ്പമാണ് ആരും ചോദിക്കാനും പറയാനുമില്ല.കൊമ്രെട്സ് പിണ്ടികെട്ടു എന്നോ എന്ത്
 വേണമെങ്കിലും വിളിക്കാം. പക്ഷെ മറ്റവനെ സൂക്ഷിച്ചു കൈകാര്യം ചെയ്യണം.
 തട്ടിക്കളയാനും മടിക്കില്ല അവന്‍.
 On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:15 PM, sunil g  wrote:

>
> hi,
> this seems a blunder made by comrades' pindicate
>  but it proves the usual strategy of marxist media work, AADINE
> PATTIYAKKAL.
>
>
>
>

[GreenYouth] Left did not have alternative development policy, Prabath Patnaik

[damodar prasad]

hi,
Leading Marxist theorist, the Vice-chairman of Kerala state Planning board
and internationally reputed economist who was part of the UN committte to
evolve strategies to overcome global economic recession cites in this
persuasive article several reasons for the drubbing suffered by CPI(M) led
Left. According to Prabath Patnaik, it is the lack of alternative
development agenda and toeing of neoliberal policy prescriptions that led to
the decline of support amongst in traditional vote-base.

The importance of this article cannot be downplayed. The article was
published (July1,2009), a few days prior to the PB meeting convened to
discuss Kerala matters. In the same article, Prabath Patnaik also "brackets"
PDP-CPM alliance and SNC-Lavalin controversy as "local" reasons for the
failure of ther Left in the Lokasabha elections.





http://www.macroscan.com/cur/jul09/cur010709Reflections.htm
Reflections on the Left

Jul 1st 2009, Prabhat Patnaik

Perhaps the most significant feature of the recent Indian election is the
loss suffered by the Left. The BJP's defeat was more or less anticipated,
except by the psephologists, as was some loss by the Left; but the actual
extent of the Left's loss has been quite staggering. True, its vote share
has fallen only marginally; but in its Bengal base it has majority in only
about a third of the total Assembly segments, and in Kerala even less, which
is a serious setback. This setback is significant because the Left, even
though not a contender for power at the Centre as of now, is a major driving
force behind India's journey towards a modern, secular and democratic
society. It is of course not the only such force: there are large numbers of
progressive social and political movements which also play this role. But it
differs from all of them in one crucial respect, namely that it also has
electoral strength which they lack; and such strength does matter. Any
impairing of such strength therefore portends ill for the progress of
India's democratic revolution.

The media have been full of analysis of the Left's loss and of advice for
its revival, much of which ultimately focuses on just one point: it must
discard its ''phobia'' about ''imperialism''. This is occasionally expressed
directly, such as by Lord Meghnad Desai in an interview to The Hindu, but
usually indirectly. Sometimes it is said that the Left should not have
withdrawn support from the UPA government; but since the withdrawal was
precisely on the question of India's entering into a possible strategic
alliance with U.S. imperialism, this argument amounts to saying that the
Left exaggerates the imperialist threat. Sometimes it is said that the
people's verdict was in favour of ''development'', from which the inference
can be drawn that the Left's electoral loss must be attributed to its lack
of success in ushering in ''development'' (meaning ''development'' within
the neo-liberal paradigm, for which the different states in the country are
vying with one another to attract corporate and MNC investment). This again
amounts to saying that the Left's opposition to the neo-liberal paradigm,
which is linked to its anti-imperialism, is responsible for its
obsolescence, and hence defeat. Sometimes it is argued that there was a
''wave'' in favour of a secular and stable government which worked to the
advantage of the UPA and to the detriment of the Left, since the latter
forged links in the ''third front'' with Parties that had done business with
the BJP earlier. If the conclusion from this claim is that the Left should
have gone into the election alone rather than with ''third front'' allies,
then that at least is compatible with the Left's ideological premises
(though it is unlikely to have made much difference to its electoral
fortune); but if the conclusion is that the Left must always be with those
who would be normally supposed to ride such a ''wave'', then that amounts to
suggesting that it should compromise on its anti-imperialism to become a
permanent fixture of the UPA camp. The commonest advice to the Left in short
is to stop making a fuss over ''imperialism''.

This is hardly surprising. All over the world, in countries where the urban
middle class has escaped as yet the adverse consequences of globalization,
anti-imperialism among the students, the educated youth, and the literati is
at low ebb. On the contrary there is even a desire to welcome closer
integration with the imperialist world as a means of ushering in a secular
and progressive modernity, and of countering phenomena like feudal
patriarchy, religious authoritarianism and communal-fascism. Since Left
ideas typically get nourishment from the literati and the urban intellectual
strata, even though these ideas reach their fruition in the struggles of the
workers and peasants, who are the victims of globalization but are
sociologically distant from the intellectual strata, the Left movement
gathers momentum in situations where the urban middle class has 

[GreenYouth] Re: Capacity Building Programme under Human Development in Higher Education

[damodar prasad]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:29 PM, damodar prasad wrote:

> Maya,
> My firends tell me that in recent times there has been a massive cut in
> spending for social science and humanities. There is a reduction in faculty
> appointment. Guest lecture mode of appointment has replaced this. There is
> certainly a doscuragement for social science and humanities in centres of
> learning. Enriching SS and humanities with current status of knowledge is
> one thing and it is entirely another thing to make it as 'skill development"
> courses compatible for the industry.
> Secondly, I didn't want to demean the role of polytechnics. But It has a
> definite function. However, I think disciplines like history, literature are
> *not* polytechnical subjects. Universities and centres like IIT have a
> broader role than polytechnics in terms of imaprting of education. I think
> in that sense, universities, autonomous centres, IITs can be termed as
> polyvocal/ polycritical/ polydisciplinary faciltating research, critical
> thinking and expanding new frontiers of knowledge.
> Thirdly, what I meant by 'skill development" is not limited to pshysical
> skills. Skill development is perhaps one objective of education. Reducing
> education to "training", skill enhancement actually is meant to create
> charachterstically disciplined obedient citizens, perhaps.
> As you know better than me, the SSand humanities academics are fighting
> over the limiting of resources, closing down of SS and humanities dept.
> globally. May I ask you how you percieve these issues faced by SS and
> humanities (and even hard sciences as well)
>   On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Maya  wrote:
>
>> Dear Damodar Prasad,
>> This was a notice . And the points you raised are worth discussing , I
>> agree. It is getting organised along with State Planning Board. May be thats
>> the reason for project language use too. But , just using some particular
>> terms doesnt show the whole purpose and the entire content. It may be good
>> if you could participate and make your points here seeing what all papers
>> are presented.
>> Having done my PhD here and teaching  here at present,  I dont think this
>> would be loosing a critical social science faculty. As far as I could
>> understand this is not for making  job-generating kind of exercise. Skill
>> doesnt mean simply physical, but could be the ability of individuals,
>> institutions and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and
>> achieve objectives in masking a sustainable society.
>> To make the students understand the pupose of studying  social sciences is
>> a task. To get people who have the capacity to take that task is another
>> task !  Cant the social scientists think about this?! These issues would be
>> there around various disciplines except the professional courses. But how
>> come  IITs and Central Universities are great , and polytechnics are
>> degrading !!!
>> Maya
>>
>>   On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, damodar prasad <
>> damodar.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Capacity buliding- is this term still in use? the next one is Human
>>> Development? who is forwarding this here: a senior research scholar
>>> belonging to SS, MGU, (as I understand).
>>> dear maya,
>>> when has our ciritcal social science faculty taken to recourse to the
>>> language of project management. Is ss Plainning some MBA/MHRM programme.
>>> I just askd.. some of our new higher-education thinkers, owing to their
>>> deeply "*Painkalikkal*" ( പൈങ്കളിക്കല്‍) mind has been inducing the idea
>>> that SS and Humanities curriculum compabiltity with the changing times is to
>>> deflect from the prupose of education and make it more sklli-based,
>>> job-generating kind of excercise.
>>> Instead of asking for IITs and Central Universities, we should be
>>> fighting for more no: of POLYTECHINCS!!
>>>
>>>   On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Maya wrote:
>>>
>>>>   A Five Day Workshop on
>>>>
>>>> *Capacity** **Building** Programme under Human Development in Higher
>>>> Education*
>>>>
>>>> * *
>>>>
>>>> * *
>>>> *7-11 July 2009*
>>>> *School** of **Social Sciences***
>>>>
>>>> *Mahatma** **Gandhi** **University***
>>>>
>>>> * *
>>>>
>>>> *Concept*
>>>>
>>>> Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices achieved by
>>>> expanding human capabilities. In the case of the community of

[GreenYouth] Re: Capacity Building Programme under Human Development in Higher Education

[damodar prasad]

yes renju, if we look at the kind of "academic books" of say two to three
decades back, we cannot miss a term repeated everywhere: Nation-Building.
Then it was the high-tide period of command economy. The same academics who
repeated this cliche are now changing tunes. But all of them have lucky
horroscopes. In one way or another, they come to occupy central positons.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:28 PM, ranju radha  wrote:

>
>
> some institutions cannot survive without thse two terms
> such institutions can be seen in abundance especially places like
> Indraprastham
> in fact, i m fed up with this shitty business of M S Swaminathan kinda
> sustainable developmnt, community radio, development communication, UNESCO
> projects for "developing countries"...etc etc (and one cannot always resist
> the temptation as well)
> and early birds are always there to catch these worms
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Maya  wrote:
>
>> Dear Damodar Prasad,
>> This was a notice . And the points you raised are worth discussing , I
>> agree. It is getting organised along with State Planning Board. May be thats
>> the reason for project language use too. But , just using some particular
>> terms doesnt show the whole purpose and the entire content. It may be good
>> if you could participate and make your points here seeing what all papers
>> are presented.
>> Having done my PhD here and teaching  here at present,  I dont think this
>> would be loosing a critical social science faculty. As far as I could
>> understand this is not for making  job-generating kind of exercise. Skill
>> doesnt mean simply physical, but could be the ability of individuals,
>> institutions and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and
>> achieve objectives in masking a sustainable society.
>> To make the students understand the pupose of studying  social sciences is
>> a task. To get people who have the capacity to take that task is another
>> task !  Cant the social scientists think about this?! These issues would be
>> there around various disciplines except the professional courses. But how
>> come  IITs and Central Universities are great , and polytechnics are
>> degrading !!!
>> Maya
>>
>>   On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, damodar prasad <
>> damodar.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Capacity buliding- is this term still in use? the next one is Human
>>> Development? who is forwarding this here: a senior research scholar
>>> belonging to SS, MGU, (as I understand).
>>> dear maya,
>>> when has our ciritcal social science faculty taken to recourse to the
>>> language of project management. Is ss Plainning some MBA/MHRM programme.
>>> I just askd.. some of our new higher-education thinkers, owing to their
>>> deeply "*Painkalikkal*" ( പൈങ്കളിക്കല്‍) mind has been inducing the idea
>>> that SS and Humanities curriculum compabiltity with the changing times is to
>>> deflect from the prupose of education and make it more sklli-based,
>>> job-generating kind of excercise.
>>> Instead of asking for IITs and Central Universities, we should be
>>> fighting for more no: of POLYTECHINCS!!
>>>
>>>   On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Maya wrote:
>>>
>>>>   A Five Day Workshop on
>>>>
>>>> *Capacity** **Building** Programme under Human Development in Higher
>>>> Education*
>>>>
>>>> * *
>>>>
>>>> * *
>>>> *7-11 July 2009*
>>>> *School** of **Social Sciences***
>>>>
>>>> *Mahatma** **Gandhi** **University***
>>>>
>>>> * *
>>>>
>>>> *Concept*
>>>>
>>>> Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices achieved by
>>>> expanding human capabilities. In the case of the community of teachers and
>>>> researchers, it would mean development of capabilities for being
>>>> accomplished in one’s area of specialization. To be accomplished through
>>>> human development in higher education means to be professional in the
>>>> production and transmission of specialized new knowledge with a holistic
>>>> comprehension providing clarity about the relation of one’s specialization
>>>> to national development strategies, i.e., the relation to politics. It is
>>>> the state of being deeply knowledgeable in one’s field with critical
>>>> insights into its relation to social development. This level of human
>>>> development is engendered by the po

[GreenYouth] Re: Capacity Building Programme under Human Development in Higher Education

[damodar prasad]

Maya,
My firends tell me that in recent times there has been a massive cut in
spending for social science and humanities. There is a reduction in faculty
appointment. Guest lecture mode of appointment has replaced this. There is
certainly a doscuragement for social science and humanities in centres of
learning. Enriching SS and humanities with current status of knowledge is
one thing and it is entirely another thing to make it as 'skill development"
courses compatible for the industry.
Secondly, I didn't want to demean the role of polytechnics. But It has a
definite function. However, I think disciplines like history, literature are
polytechnical subjects. Universities and centres like IIT have a broader
role than polytechnics in terms of imaprting of education. I think in that
sense, universities, autonomous centres, IITs can be termed as polyvocal/
polycritical/ polydisciplinary faciltating research, critical thinking and
expanding new frontiers of knowledge.
Thirdly, what I meant by 'skill development" is not limited to pshysical
skills. Skill development is perhaps one objective of education. Reducing
education to "training", skill enhancement actually is meant to create
charachterstically disciplined obedient citizens, perhaps.
As you know better than me, the SSand humanities academics are fighting over
the limiting of resources, closing down of SS and humanities dept. globally.
May I ask you how you percieve these issues faced by SS and humanities (and
even hard sciences as well)
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Maya  wrote:

> Dear Damodar Prasad,
> This was a notice . And the points you raised are worth discussing , I
> agree. It is getting organised along with State Planning Board. May be thats
> the reason for project language use too. But , just using some particular
> terms doesnt show the whole purpose and the entire content. It may be good
> if you could participate and make your points here seeing what all papers
> are presented.
> Having done my PhD here and teaching  here at present,  I dont think this
> would be loosing a critical social science faculty. As far as I could
> understand this is not for making  job-generating kind of exercise. Skill
> doesnt mean simply physical, but could be the ability of individuals,
> institutions and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and
> achieve objectives in masking a sustainable society.
> To make the students understand the pupose of studying  social sciences is
> a task. To get people who have the capacity to take that task is another
> task !  Cant the social scientists think about this?! These issues would be
> there around various disciplines except the professional courses. But how
> come  IITs and Central Universities are great , and polytechnics are
> degrading !!!
> Maya
>
>   On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, damodar prasad <
> damodar.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Capacity buliding- is this term still in use? the next one is Human
>> Development? who is forwarding this here: a senior research scholar
>> belonging to SS, MGU, (as I understand).
>> dear maya,
>> when has our ciritcal social science faculty taken to recourse to the
>> language of project management. Is ss Plainning some MBA/MHRM programme.
>> I just askd.. some of our new higher-education thinkers, owing to their
>> deeply "*Painkalikkal*" ( പൈങ്കളിക്കല്‍) mind has been inducing the idea
>> that SS and Humanities curriculum compabiltity with the changing times is to
>> deflect from the prupose of education and make it more sklli-based,
>> job-generating kind of excercise.
>> Instead of asking for IITs and Central Universities, we should be fighting
>> for more no: of POLYTECHINCS!!
>>
>>   On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Maya wrote:
>>
>>>   A Five Day Workshop on
>>>
>>> *Capacity** **Building** Programme under Human Development in Higher
>>> Education*
>>>
>>> * *
>>>
>>> * *
>>> *7-11 July 2009*
>>> *School** of **Social Sciences***
>>>
>>> *Mahatma** **Gandhi** **University***
>>>
>>> * *
>>>
>>> *Concept*
>>>
>>> Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices achieved by
>>> expanding human capabilities. In the case of the community of teachers and
>>> researchers, it would mean development of capabilities for being
>>> accomplished in one’s area of specialization. To be accomplished through
>>> human development in higher education means to be professional in the
>>> production and transmission of specialized new knowledge with a holistic
>>> comprehension providing clarity about the relation of one’s 

[GreenYouth] Re: Capacity Building Programme under Human Development in Higher Education

[damodar prasad]

Capacity buliding- is this term still in use? the next one is Human
Development? who is forwarding this here: a senior research scholar
belonging to SS, MGU, (as I understand).
dear maya,
when has our ciritcal social science faculty taken to recourse to the
language of project management. Is ss Plainning some MBA/MHRM programme.
I just askd.. some of our new higher-education thinkers, owing to their
deeply "*Painkalikkal*" ( പൈങ്കളിക്കല്‍) mind has been inducing the idea
that SS and Humanities curriculum compabiltity with the changing times is to
deflect from the prupose of education and make it more sklli-based,
job-generating kind of excercise.
Instead of asking for IITs and Central Universities, we should be fighting
for more no: of POLYTECHINCS!!

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Maya  wrote:

> A Five Day Workshop on
>
> *Capacity** **Building** Programme under Human Development in Higher
> Education*
>
> * *
>
> * *
> *7-11 July 2009*
> *School** of **Social Sciences***
>
> *Mahatma** **Gandhi** **University***
>
> * *
>
> *Concept*
>
> Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices achieved by
> expanding human capabilities. In the case of the community of teachers and
> researchers, it would mean development of capabilities for being
> accomplished in one’s area of specialization. To be accomplished through
> human development in higher education means to be professional in the
> production and transmission of specialized new knowledge with a holistic
> comprehension providing clarity about the relation of one’s specialization
> to national development strategies, i.e., the relation to politics. It is
> the state of being deeply knowledgeable in one’s field with critical
> insights into its relation to social development. This level of human
> development is engendered by the politics of knowledge that facilitates
> creative intervention in national policy formulations. Such accomplished
> academicians of critical consciousness, social justice, political
> self-respect, sense of belonging to the society and intellectual
> productivity empower the people with necessary insights enabling informed
> participation in public policy debates. Though there is no dearth of
> academicians in the country, accomplished among them are very few.
>
>  From the lack of academically accomplished human resources has
> followed severe incapacity to conduct people-centred and empowerment
> oriented research adapting scientific findings available at the global
> level. A national research capacity enabling the country to share and
> contribute to the stock of global public goods is wanted. Scientific
>
> Communication facilitating tests, confirmation and sharing research results
> with the global scientific community for providing credible advice to
> national policy makers is not at a desirable height. Research based
> curriculum percolating relevant international domains of knowledge in a
> perspective of national as well as local developments are long way off. This
> is not to mean that number of higher education institutions and the extent
> of facilities of teaching and research in the country is inadequate.
> Nevertheless, there is a widespread backwardness with a trend of exponential
> decay in the domain of higher education. A sense of alienation affects most
> of the youth and impedes appropriate learning even after specialization that
> is supposed to make them accomplished. An explanation to this lack of
> qualified knowledge is the past inability to construct a coherent education
> system appropriate to the national social development. There are many
> constraints to the higher education systems in the country, but generally
> speaking, quality could have been improved with a more holistic approach to
> the different levels of education. Instead skewed education efforts have led
> into vicious circles: without Quality Teacher Education, primary education
> became poor, leading to low standard at secondary schools, leaving college
> education deplorable and Universities filled with substandard students. This
> has created a deficit of skilled human resources in the country. Many
> national and state level programmes of quality enhancement are in progress.
> It is the context of the present workshop on capacity building under human
> development in higher education.
>
>
>
>   The concept of human development capacity is the essential lubricant
> of development, more important even than finance. The UN Development
> Programme has defined "capacity" as "the ability of individuals,
> institutions and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and
> achieve objectives in a sustainable manner". The terms "capacity building"
> or "capacity development" describe the task of developing levels of human
> and institutional capacity. Building institutional and organisational
> capacity through human resource management has been widely attended to in
> the country. However, capacity bui

[GreenYouth] Re: "I hate Michael Jackson: Ram Gopal Verma"

[damodar prasad]

to do good PR, one needs exellent creativity as well.
The one who doesn't have such stuff.. becomes hopelessly cynical..another
marketable stuff in Keralam. Isn't it?

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:47 PM, bobinson  wrote:

> nice caption ! excellent PR - marketing stuff.
>
>
> >
>

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[GreenYouth] Re: "I hate Michael Jackson: Ram Gopal Verma"

[damodar prasad]

http://rgvzoomin.com/2009/06/28/i-hate-michael-jackson/.
the above link will take you to Ramgopavarnma's blog

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:02 PM, sunil kumar  wrote:

> * I hate Michael Jackson: Ram Gopal Verma*  Indo-Asian News Service
>  Wednesday, July 01, 2009 (New Delhi)
>
>
>
>
>  [image: I hate Michael Jackson: Ram Gopal Verma]
>
>
>
> Controversial Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma says he hates pop legend
> Michael Jackson for dying and making him realise that he was only a human
> being.
>
> "I hate Michael Jackson. I hate him for dying and making me realise that he
> is just a human being. I hate that he too has to breathe to live. I hate
> that he too has a heart which can stop like anybody else's," Varma posted on
> his new blog.
>
> "I truly truly hate Michael Jackson for becoming a grim reality from a
> fantastic fantasy," he added.
>
> Just as the world was taken aback with the news of Jackson's death Thursday
> following a cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles, so was Varma, for
> whom the King of Pop was like someone from outer space.
>
> Varma, who has made 
> filmslike
> *Satya*, *Company*, *Sarkar* and *Sarkar Raj*, narrated how he was
> introduced to Jackson's unique music and dance style during his college
> days.
>
> "When I was in college in Vijayawada, a 
> friendof
>  mine took me to a video parlour to show Michael Jackson's
> *Thriller*. Being constantly fed on a staple 
> dietof
>  Telugu and Hindi
> songs,
> I was startled to see the unimaginably high standards of picturisation,
> choreography and above all I was awe-struck by the sheer personality of
> Michael Jackson," he wrote.
>
> "I walked out of the parlour in a daze thinking that he cannot be a real
> person and he has to be some fantasy who somehow has taken a human shape,"
> added Varma.
>
> The filmmaker, who attended Jackson's 1996 concert in Mumbai along with
> actors Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan, says it wasn't just the legend's
> "dancing or his singing or even his music, but the sheer power of his
> presence and the aura around him that swept me away".
>
> "On stage Michael Jackson looked like some being who has come from some
> other world in outer space as a favour to entertain us for a little
> while...For me in my mind he was like a creation of god or whatever that
> thing which creates when in a very special mood as a very very special gift
> to mankind," he conclude
>
> >
>

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[GreenYouth] Unbearable Lightness of Being Ashis Nandy

[damodar prasad]

There is a peculiar charm in Ashis Nandy’s arguments. Where does this charm
come from? It originates at same point as all radical thinking begins with,
which is upsetting the conventions. Ashis Nandy upturns the convention in
which most Indian middle class, his ardent readers, so to say, are schooled.
It is the schooling in the ideas of a colonial modernity.
http://thefishpond.in/damodarprasad/2009/being-ashis-nandy/#more-210

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[GreenYouth] UID- Govt. Version

[damodar prasad]

Each Indian citizen will have one unique identification number that will
identify him/her. This will not just help the government track down
individuals as is highlighted by the media, but will make life far easier
for citizens as they will not have to submit so many documents each time
they want to avail a new service — private or government.

This will be the equivalent of the social security number in the US.
Interestingly, many of the ideas like pension and social security would also
be easier to roll out. If used properly, this will also channelize the
government subsidies to the right recipients.

"There has been a long-felt need in the country for a system of unique
identification of every individual for a variety of purposes such as better
targeting of government's development schemes, regulatory purposes
(including taxation and licensing), security purposes, banking and financial
sector activities, etc.

In the absence of such a nationwide system, each sector of the economy or
department/ agency of the government adopts its own system of identification
such as PAN card, ration card, Electoral Photo Identity Card, credit cards,
etc," the government had said in a press note while announcing the project
in November.

"Such specific purpose identities were often found to have inherent
limitations in accuracy and currency levels on account of low frequency of
usage. Moreover, the multiplicity of such systems renders it impossible to
correlate information across sectors and even across institutions within the
same sector for providing better services to people. Similarly, different
agencies of government are unable to correlate their data relating to any
particular individual," it added.

At that time, the UPA government had said that unique identity (UID) number
of each individual would remain a permanent identifier right from birth to
death of the individual.

It would obviate the need for a person to produce multiple documentary
proofs of his identity for availing of any government service, or private
services like opening of a bank account, etc.

This would end needless harassment that people face for availing of basic
government services like issuance of passports, driving licences, Electoral
Identity Cards, etc.

The government had said that it would extensively use technology — something
that Nilekani understands thoroughly — to facilitate easy verification of a
person's identity and enable a single communication to trigger address
changes in all relevant agencies records.

It would also serve as the basis for many e-governance services
incorporating online verification of a person's identity. UID would enable
the government to ensure that benefits under various welfare programmes
reach the intended beneficiaries, prevent cornering of benefits by a few
people and minimize frauds.

It would enable financial institutions to exchange information regarding
defaulters and encourage responsible borrower behaviour.

The scheme envisages that at the inception, the UID number will be assigned
to all voters by building on current electoral roll data and progressively
adding other persons including persons below 18 years of age who are not a
part of the voters list in the country. Over a period of time, through fail
safe procedures backed by intensive use of technology and with the help of
multiple government agencies, the currency and comprehensiveness of the
database will be perfected.

The scheme is designed to leverage intensive usage of the UID for multiple
purposes to provide an efficient and convenient mechanism to update
information. Photographs and biometric data will be added progressively to
make the identification foolproof. Easy registration and information change
procedures are envisaged for the benefit of the people.

The UID Authority, the government had said at that time, will be responsible
for creating and maintaining the core database and to lay down all necessary
procedures for issuance and usage of UID including arrangements for
collection, validation and authentication of information, proper security of
data, rules for sharing and access to information, safeguards to ensure
adequate protection of privacy and all aspects related to all of these
issues.

Any agency, public or private, which deals with individuals and incorporates
the UID number of each such individual in its databases, will be able to
share information with other agencies which do likewise. The government had
said that the UID would become available to an initial set of users by early
2010.

*The 
**BJP*
*, in its IT vision document, also promised to set up a unique ID system,
calling it Multipurpose National Identity Card (MNIC). It had said that, if
it came to power, it would amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, to combine the
offices of the Registrar General of the Census of India and that of the UIAI
to set up a Citizenship R

[GreenYouth] Two friends who have but one life

[damodar prasad]

.In this description of Pulaya marriage, Menon describes how the friend
of bridegroom takes part in the marriage ceremony  as almost a 'shadow
bridegroom'. Perhaps this was a version of polyandry which was very common
in rural Kerala, a practice and which lasted very long, right into the
1970s. I don't think this information is merely of antiquarian interest.Even
its obvious relevance to contemporary political struggles does not exhaust
its significance. *There is a history of the intense male homosociality so
visible in everyday life in Kerala, that we need to investigate; *maybe this
is a start-- Devika

for the fulltext,  follow the link:
http://kafila.org/2009/06/25/two-friends-who-have-but-one-life-hope-from-the-19th-century/

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[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [foil] Lalgarh and Its Broader Implications

[damodar prasad]

The difference was/is only in terms of praxis. But both are united in its
contempt of democratic aspirations of different segments of people. ( But
you have thinkers like Samir Amin still swearing by Maoism)

But let me add one more thing: current struggles of Maoist movement is a
response to Liberalization- Globalization regime.

*Maoist Liberation Zone and Special Economic Zone (SEZ) are twin edged
response to globalization. Both does not respect democratic rights and
sovereignity. The only difference is in terms of econmic value. Which again
is a contested claim. And Peasant socialism of Maoist can also portray a
different economic value for their liberated zones.
*
**
*
* On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM, sunil kumar wrote:

> Yes ban is not a solution. And we should condemn ban against maoists. At
> the same time maoism is not a solution to tribal or dalit problems. Really
> maoism and so called armed resistance lead the tribals, dalits and other
> oppressed people to nowhere but unendingtragedy. Marxists and Maoists are
> birds having same feathers
>
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: damodar prasad 
> Date: 2009/6/23
> Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [foil] Lalgarh and Its Broader Implications
> To: greenyouth@googlegroups.com
>
>
> Banning maoism is no soulution. It is the solution provided P Chidambaram.
> sad that WB givt followed it dittio.
> Chidamabram, as FM in the last UPA givt had accused CPM for the raising and
> management of funds ( or something like that) or was it on tax evasion.
>
>   On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Sukla Sen  wrote:
>
>>   Quote
>> Being far more rational people than the elitist bastards who ask them to
>> lay down their arms now admit, the Adivasis sought and received the
>> assistance of Maoists ..
>> Unquote
>>
>> The term "bastard" is unabashedly sexist, upholding certain social values
>> which have become outdated and even repugnant within circles engaged with
>> human liberation - women, in particular.
>> One does not expect "R" to be particularly aware of all that. So let us
>> leave this aspect at that.
>>   He has obviously used it as a term of nasty abuse against the people,
>> "the "civil society" champions" who played a crucial role in turning the
>> tide in the context of Singur / Nandigram, the latter in particular. These
>> are also the people who are even today braving rather formidable threats to
>> their persons to raise their voices of concern against the State and its
>> committed operators unlike Raja shrieking hysterically from a safe enclave
>> "in the citadel of imperialism".
>> This is just to put things in perspective.
>>
>> I'd not here try to address the deliberate digression of Koraput based on
>> a (slanted?) story carried by the "corporate media". (Not that I'm too
>> knowledgeable on that.)
>> Let us also not get diverted by the evident piece of blatant lie that the
>> Maoists had any significant role in the Janandolan II in Nepal. That has
>> already been exposed time and again. We would not revisit in any details the
>> angry Maoist rejection of the King finally announcing reinstitution of the
>> earlier dismissed parliament on April 24 2006 to be followed by a
>> quick somersault.
>>
>> Let's come back to Lalgarh. And let's set aside some jargons like
>> ""autonomously" and all that to obfuscate the issue.
>> Let us come back to Chhatradhar Mahato, the leader of the PCAPA under the
>> banner of which the resistance since last November was organised.
>>
>> But before that let us take up my central contention:
>> Quote
>> *The resistance, which had held for long seven months, collapsed
>> almost overnight, within seven days of the Maoist misventure.*
>> Unquote
>> Quote
>> The seven month long resistance crashed almost overnight with the
>> Maoistscoming overground, claiming the authorship of the resistance,
>> proudly declaring that they tried to kill the Chief Minister and would do it
>> again and going on a violent spree including killings.
>> That gave the state the perfect alibi to shed its diffidence of long
>> seven months and breach the resistance.
>> If Nandigarm had immobilised the state, after its brutal actions
>> turned severely counter-productive, Lalgarh, or its latest phase, has
>> helped radically reverse the trend.
>> Unquote
>> Quote
>> ...the PCAPA under the banner of which the highly successful mass
>> resistance was going on for the last seven months or so keeping the state
>> administration out of its own

[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: [foil] Lalgarh and Its Broader Implications

[damodar prasad]

Banning maoism is no soulution. It is the solution provided P Chidambaram.
sad that WB givt followed it dittio.
Chidamabram, as FM in the last UPA givt had accused CPM for the raising and
management of funds ( or something like that) or was it on tax evasion.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Sukla Sen  wrote:

>   Quote
> Being far more rational people than the elitist bastards who ask them to
> lay down their arms now admit, the Adivasis sought and received the
> assistance of Maoists ..
> Unquote
>
> The term "bastard" is unabashedly sexist, upholding certain social values
> which have become outdated and even repugnant within circles engaged with
> human liberation - women, in particular.
> One does not expect "R" to be particularly aware of all that. So let us
> leave this aspect at that.
>   He has obviously used it as a term of nasty abuse against the people,
> "the "civil society" champions" who played a crucial role in turning the
> tide in the context of Singur / Nandigram, the latter in particular. These
> are also the people who are even today braving rather formidable threats to
> their persons to raise their voices of concern against the State and its
> committed operators unlike Raja shrieking hysterically from a safe enclave
> "in the citadel of imperialism".
> This is just to put things in perspective.
>
> I'd not here try to address the deliberate digression of Koraput based on a
> (slanted?) story carried by the "corporate media". (Not that I'm too
> knowledgeable on that.)
> Let us also not get diverted by the evident piece of blatant lie that the
> Maoists had any significant role in the Janandolan II in Nepal. That has
> already been exposed time and again. We would not revisit in any details the
> angry Maoist rejection of the King finally announcing reinstitution of the
> earlier dismissed parliament on April 24 2006 to be followed by a
> quick somersault.
>
> Let's come back to Lalgarh. And let's set aside some jargons like
> ""autonomously" and all that to obfuscate the issue.
> Let us come back to Chhatradhar Mahato, the leader of the PCAPA under the
> banner of which the resistance since last November was organised.
>
> But before that let us take up my central contention:
> Quote
> *The resistance, which had held for long seven months, collapsed
> almost overnight, within seven days of the Maoist misventure.*
> Unquote
> Quote
> The seven month long resistance crashed almost overnight with the
> Maoistscoming overground, claiming the authorship of the resistance,
> proudly declaring that they tried to kill the Chief Minister and would do it
> again and going on a violent spree including killings.
> That gave the state the perfect alibi to shed its diffidence of long
> seven months and breach the resistance.
> If Nandigarm had immobilised the state, after its brutal actions
> turned severely counter-productive, Lalgarh, or its latest phase, has
> helped radically reverse the trend.
> Unquote
> Quote
> ...the PCAPA under the banner of which the highly successful mass
> resistance was going on for the last seven months or so keeping the state
> administration out of its own territory even during the last Lok Sabha
> election and compelling it to set up voting booths just outside the
> lakshmanrekha to ensure that the villagers can cast their votes while still
> keeping the state out. That too amidst full-blooded campaign for vote
> boycott.
>
> Unquote
>
> Let's note that not a word on that! Not even pointless jargons.
>
> Also compare Pothik Ghosh (an editor of ):
>   Quote
>  The Bengal government was extremely cagey until a few weeks ago to launch
> a
> crackdown. That was largely due to the movement’s mass insurrectionary
> character. In Lalgarh, violence has been a collective expression of
> disaffection against the oppressive socio-economic order the state defends.
> Even the guerrilla operations carried out by Maoists in the area have
> become
> a seamless extension of this insurrection, which enjoys wide-ranging
> legitimacy. It is this legitimacy, which derives from an assertion of
> popular sovereignty, that had compelled the West Bengal regime to keep its
> Stalinist proclivities — seen in Nandigram — in check for so long.
>
> A modern State formation also acts in the name of popular sovereignty. But
> in an insurrectionary situation, as in Lalgarh, the government comes to be
> seen as an external threat to the sovereignty of the people. That renders
> the legal-illegal dichotomy problematic and makes it difficult for the
> state
> to monopolise violence to crush popular movements in the name of curbing
> anti-sovereign insurgency. The CPI(M)-led Left Front could ill-afford such
> a
> risk after the electoral drubbing.
>
> Alas, Lalgarh has squandered that advantage, thanks to a tactical blunder
> by
> the Maoists. The recent claims by various Maoist leaders that the PCAPA was
> a front of their underground party has given the repressive arms of both
> the
> Bengal gov

[GreenYouth] Re: Maoist Violence in Lalgarh, West Bengal, Must be Condemned

[damodar prasad]

As we now it did not happen all of a sudden. Something really troubling.
Actually, "second liberation struggle" is happening in WB not in Kerala. The
rainbow coalition of TMC, Maoist with the support of Congress party perhaps
is behind the Lalgarh violence as alleged by CPM. But CPM is no saintly
crowd. Some argues that the violence is a reaction to CPM totalitarian
terror for the last many years.
But something terrible is happening in the rural WB as many studies
indicate.
Congress wants to depict this as mere Law and Order problem. The TMC demand
of dismissing WB govt. is alive.


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Santhosh Kumar <
santhosh.kanipa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is really unfortunate situation. All spectrum of Communist Parties using
> violence to their end, constitutional or extra constitutional - using state
> and outside state,against common people and their struggles. Violence
> breading and justifying violence.
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, damodar prasad  > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Cross-posting Aditya Nigam's write-up from Kafila
>>
>> *Maoist Violence in Lalgarh, West Bengal, Must be Condemned*
>>
>> The inevitable has happened. As soon as the election results came out and
>> the wall of fear collapsed and mass anger against the ruling CPM became
>> evident, the Maoists waiting in the wings have come out into the open. 
>> *However,
>> what is happening today in Lalgarh and other parts of West Bengal cannot be
>> justified by pointing at the CPM’s totalitarian terror in the Bengal
>> countryside.*
>>
>> According to reports, the violence, killings of CPM activists and members,
>> especially in Lalgarh, has now acquired unprecedented proportions. CPM
>> members are being driven out of their homes or killed. The offices of the
>> party have been targeted on a large scale, not just in Lalgarh but elsewhere
>> in West Bengal.
>>
>> At Kafila, we had earlier, on 22 April, reported on what is going on in
>> Lalgarh<http://kafila.org/2009/04/22/lalgarh-media-and-the-maoists-monobina-gupta/>.
>> That Maoists have been active in Lalgarh is well known. In this report filed
>> after a visit to Lalgarh, Monobina Gupta had drawn attention towards the
>> disjunction between the Maoist leadership’s designs and the local Maoist
>> activists who were having to work along with the popular sentiment.
>> Monobina’s report went further:
>>
>> *In fact, curiously enough, the situation on ground zero is not going
>> exactly in accordance with the plans of Maoist central leaders who favour
>> stepping up violence*. Insiders talk about a growing discordance between
>> the central leadership and the ‘Maoist villager’, active in the movement.
>> *With the agitation forging ahead, Maoist central leaders want to have a
>> firmer grip; they want landmines, killings, terror, systematic targeting of
>> informers*. But the grassroots ‘Maoist’ worker is unwilling. “They
>> realize any such violent action will lead to their isolation and the death
>> of the movement. *But Maoist central leaders believe they made the
>> movement and should have the right to control it,” said an insider*. “One
>> of the reasons villagers are sympathetic to Maoists is because they know
>> them intimately, not as some distant commander, but the youth next door, who
>> works for and with the poor. But violence would find little endorsement,” he
>> said.
>>
>> Today, in the aftermath of the elections, the design of the Maoist central
>> leadership seems to have won the day. Maoist cadre are out in the open.
>> Activists associated with the movement and with the Lalgarh Sanhati Mancha,
>> confess to a feeling of helplessness as the armed Maoist cadre threaten to
>> take over and derail the movement that has so far afforded little space to
>> its politics of violence.
>>
>> In some of our earlier posts, we had condemned Maoist violence in
>> Chattisgarh, especially its threats against the human shields 
>> programme<http://kafila.org/2008/10/19/maoist-disruption-of-the-non-violent-human-shields-movement-in-chhattisgarh/>of
>>  the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram and the wanton killings
>> by them in 
>> Nayagarh<http://kafila.org/2008/02/22/condemnation-of-maoist-and-state-violence-in-orissa/>in
>>  Orissa (22 February 2008). The latter was a statement issued by eleven
>> intellectuals and activists who had also been raising their voice against
>> the Nandigram violence. This statement expressed its “complete opposition to
>> this cult of violence” and had warned that
>>
>> *The Maoist atrocity in Nayagarh is particular

[GreenYouth] Maoist Violence in Lalgarh, West Bengal, Must be Condemned

[damodar prasad]

Hi,

Cross-posting Aditya Nigam's write-up from Kafila

*Maoist Violence in Lalgarh, West Bengal, Must be Condemned*

The inevitable has happened. As soon as the election results came out and
the wall of fear collapsed and mass anger against the ruling CPM became
evident, the Maoists waiting in the wings have come out into the open.
*However,
what is happening today in Lalgarh and other parts of West Bengal cannot be
justified by pointing at the CPM’s totalitarian terror in the Bengal
countryside.*

According to reports, the violence, killings of CPM activists and members,
especially in Lalgarh, has now acquired unprecedented proportions. CPM
members are being driven out of their homes or killed. The offices of the
party have been targeted on a large scale, not just in Lalgarh but elsewhere
in West Bengal.

At Kafila, we had earlier, on 22 April, reported on what is going on in
Lalgarh.
That Maoists have been active in Lalgarh is well known. In this report filed
after a visit to Lalgarh, Monobina Gupta had drawn attention towards the
disjunction between the Maoist leadership’s designs and the local Maoist
activists who were having to work along with the popular sentiment.
Monobina’s report went further:

*In fact, curiously enough, the situation on ground zero is not going
exactly in accordance with the plans of Maoist central leaders who favour
stepping up violence*. Insiders talk about a growing discordance between the
central leadership and the ‘Maoist villager’, active in the movement. *With
the agitation forging ahead, Maoist central leaders want to have a firmer
grip; they want landmines, killings, terror, systematic targeting of
informers*. But the grassroots ‘Maoist’ worker is unwilling. “They realize
any such violent action will lead to their isolation and the death of the
movement. *But Maoist central leaders believe they made the movement and
should have the right to control it,” said an insider*. “One of the reasons
villagers are sympathetic to Maoists is because they know them intimately,
not as some distant commander, but the youth next door, who works for and
with the poor. But violence would find little endorsement,” he said.

Today, in the aftermath of the elections, the design of the Maoist central
leadership seems to have won the day. Maoist cadre are out in the open.
Activists associated with the movement and with the Lalgarh Sanhati Mancha,
confess to a feeling of helplessness as the armed Maoist cadre threaten to
take over and derail the movement that has so far afforded little space to
its politics of violence.

In some of our earlier posts, we had condemned Maoist violence in
Chattisgarh, especially its threats against the human shields
programmeof
the Vanvasi Chetna Ashram and the wanton killings
by them in 
Nayagarhin
Orissa (22 February 2008). The latter was a statement issued by eleven
intellectuals and activists who had also been raising their voice against
the Nandigram violence. This statement expressed its “complete opposition to
this cult of violence” and had warned that

*The Maoist atrocity in Nayagarh is particularly unfortunate as it is
detrimental
to the various democratic mass movements all over Orissa that are resisting
the policies of land grab and diversion of natural resources to global and
domestic corporations.* The Orissa government is bound to use this incident
as yet another excuse to crack down on the militant but non-violent
struggles of the people against unjust development policies in the state.

Today, once again, in West Bengal this is the threat that the democratic
mass movement faces. Maoist violence is once again set to eliminate every
intermediate space of democratic protest and struggle, leaving the villagers
with only two options: either line up with the state or follow the Maoists.
This is the picture everywhere, wherever the Maoists are in command, from
Chattisgarh to parts of Andhra and Orissa. That is the challenge before
democratic struggles and public opinion today.

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[GreenYouth] Re: Left Debacle In Kerala and Elsewhere

[damodar prasad]

Hi Venu:

See, AK Antony thanked the CPM for  helping the Congress sweep  the
2009 Loksabha elections while speaking in a reception programme after he
became the Defense Minister for second time.

What you say is that it is the resentment against CPM policies and style of
leadership that resulted in UPA getting 16 seats. But the question remans
how the Congress gained from the resentment. Other than paying some lip
service, did the Congress anyway took anysteps in giving land to the
landless poor.

May be Congress party is more diplomatic on their attitude toweards new
social mobilizations- be it adivasis or dalits. But can it be mistaken for
democracy.

( for eg: Mayawati has again equated Rahul Gadhi with MKGandhi for the great
the dramatics on Dalit empowerement)


The UPA were als follwing the policies of neoliberalism. The AP govt had
sanctined more no: of SEZs than any other state govt.s, I suppose.

NREGA, for instance, has to be seen in the light of "reform" measures since
neoliberal pursuits of UPA. For more on this, see Kalyan Sanyal's article in
the recent EPW special issue on Labour.

Also see on the problems of election results interpretation, the current EPW
editorial- Fractured Social Science.

D.Prasad



On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Venugopalan K M wrote:

> I would suggest that in Kerala, it was not just the Lavlin case.
> The fundamental mistake occurred when the Left lost touch with the masses.
> The crudely  self righteous sermons in favour  of what they called
> 'Development' and the criminal insensitivity toward the plights of victims
> of a neo-liberal political agenda were never taken without a pinch of salt.
> This seems true not just of those directly affected by new forms of
> deprivation but also others, who expected  sort of care for human rights and
> natural justice on such things esp from a Left set up. While these
> criticisms were totally ignored by the Party, the Kerala leadership( with
> the backing of the Polit Bureau)  even rubbished them as a handiwork of some
> imagined 'bourgeois media syndicate'.
> Kerala saw an entire Party  being mobilised to defend Pinarayi, in the
> context of clear accusation of huge misappropriation of public funds and
> charges of corruption (Lavline). Thousands of landless people, mainly
> dalits,  occupying a big rubber estate land in Chengara (Pathanamthitta
> dist) demanding it to be distributed to them was seen by the CPI(M) less a
> land issue than a 'conspiracy' by   (foreign funded) NGOs and psuedo
> intellectuals. Direct assaults were unleashed (ostensibly in the name of
> protecting the interests of rubber tapping workers unions, and by goondas
> masquerading as CITU activists) against poor dalits including women and
> children. An honourable negotiated  settlement on the Chengara land struggle
> was never attempted and is still pending. By and large, the media has been
> sympathetic to this issue though the CPI(M) showed it as yet another proof
> of 'meadia conspiracy'. Perhaps many of us we could even visualize the
> worst- some thing like Nandigram developing. Apparently thanks to the
> intervention by an enlightened section within and outside the Left set up,
> that didn't happen.
> In relation to the electoral debacle of the CPI(M) and the Left, I like to
> quote a statement in an analysis by the CPI(ML) (Liberation):
> ''...The epicentre of the anti-CPI(M) political earthquake lies
> squarely in the Singur-Nandigram seismic zone where the CPI(M) has
> been punished for its arrogant and coercive attitude to the peasantry
> and the intelligentsia, for its ruthless attempt to implement the same
> economic policies that it claims to have been opposing all along.."
>
> Though development  like Nandigram did not happen here, land related issues
> in many places where  people face threats of imminent eviction and brutal
> state violence are still continuing in Kerala. These have to do with issues
> connected with anti poor ,neo-liberal agenda often aiding Corporate land
> grabbings.
>
>
> --
> http://venukm.blogspot.com/
>
> >
>

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[GreenYouth] 75-77- ARCHIVES DOCUS- MISSING

[damodar prasad]

Hi,



Many of you have may seen today's New Indian Express report (by line:
R.Ayyappan) on the big blank in the State archives department shelves for
the period 1975-77.


Since I cannot access this report online, may I reproduce the main points:


All official records- the police files in particular- related to emergency ,
between June 1975 and March 1977, when a bloody Naxalite crack down was
conducted through out the State, are missing.


The report also says that the researchers were told that all the govt files
till 1998 had been transferred to the arvchives dept. But the documents of
these perriod have not been transferred to archives from the Gen .adim and
home dept.

After 25 years, documents have to be transferred to archives.

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[GreenYouth] Re: Governor can sanction Minister's prosecution, says Supreme Court 2004

[damodar prasad]

I think all non-CPM poeple should shfit *focus from Governor to Governance*.
What a terrific mandate people gave to LDF and VS Acuthanadan. Now after 3
years.. *entha sthithi*? anything other than factional warfare? what was
this govt. doing?  what was the party doing?-- *a big blockade; hindrance.*

FM and IM could perhaps create some impression of doing something.
Even after the durbbing they rcvd in the elections, I think CPM has learned
nothing.
CPI, the second major partner.. They shoulf thank CPM leadership for keeping
them out of public attention.
The parrty and its minsiters failed miserably. Poorest of poor perfomance..
*pakshe*, *- no limit to arrogance.. day by day, Sri Sri No:2  is
learning to perfect it as art of arrogance... *
**
**
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM, ranju radha  wrote:

> Governor has acted against the politically motivated act of LDF govt to
> protect a corrupt politician. LDF's stand is against the interst of the
> people of kerala. Governor by "playing his politics" has stood frimly by the
> intersts of people in Kerala.
> i support "his politics".
>
>
>
>   On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:28 PM, sunil kumar wrote:
>
>>   Its simple meaning is nothing, but Communist leaders are above all
>> 'bourgeois laws'. Because they are fighting against Bourgeoisie! What a
>> great revolutionary idea! Long live revolution! Long live Lavlin model.
>>
>>
>>   On 09/06/2009, damodar prasad  wrote:
>>
>>>   *Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA)- a Bourgieous enactment to save
>>> its crass compardor public leaders*I...
>>>  mean the clause clause in PCA invoked on need for the governor's
>>> sanction for prosecution.
>>>
>>>
>>>   On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:31 AM, damodar prasad <
>>> damodar.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   *But Rasheed, Is not the . *
>>>>   *I think by the way you were arguing about the necessity of CPs in
>>>> neo-liberal context in previous mails, you should've argued that CP leaders
>>>> should be above the bourgiuoes law of PCA... clean and uncontaminated
>>>> *..
>>>>
>>>> Governors, of course are pawns in the hands of the central governemnt
>>>> and the CBI is no great independent instituion. But is it not desirable 
>>>> that
>>>> Communist Party leader and the CP institution as such should be above such
>>>> posts?
>>>>
>>>> I am afraid that the way CPM has managed Lavalin, since the formation of
>>>> this Govt., has in turn helped the reactionary forces.
>>>>
>>>> The stubborn stance of CPM has enabled the bourgeous parties reap the
>>>> dividends of its mis-managed strategy.
>>>>
>>>> ( I referrred to "formation of this Govt" bocz when Lavalin issue came
>>>> up last time, Com. secy has boldly said that he is ready to face any
>>>> inquiry.
>>>> The boldness was missing later, :-) :-) :-) only to be found in the
>>>> words of English Desabhimani, I mean the Hindu editorial.)
>>>>
>>>> CPM has given an impression that something is severely rotten by the way
>>>> it handled the issue.
>>>>
>>>> The media syndicate must have done its duty but the stance of CPM as
>>>> regards non-compliance to judicial review only complicated the matter.
>>>>
>>>> As an enthusiast of CPM brand politics and observing politics above
>>>> factional self-ineterests, *you* should be more worrying about the
>>>> moral- voice of CPM at national level.
>>>>
>>>> The red card often held out by the CPM on corrupt practice and tainted
>>>> ministers will no longer be available.
>>>>
>>>> The argument of political fight on legal issues is not only avaliable to
>>>> CPM. Now this will echoed by anyone.. i mean all the "compradors"..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Abdul Rasheed 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *That does not mean that Governer is impartial. Sure, advocate General
>>>>> might have party interests. As one who have the right to criticize the AG,
>>>>> we can criticize the Governer too, since both of them are party nominees.
>>>>> *
>>>>> **
>>>>> *But here the Governer acted against the advise of ministr

[GreenYouth] Re: Governor can sanction Minister's prosecution, says Supreme Court 2004

[damodar prasad]

*Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA)- a Bourgieous enactment to save its
crass compardor public leaders*I...
 mean the clause clause in PCA invoked on need for the governor's sanction
for prosecution.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:31 AM, damodar prasad wrote:

> *But Rasheed, Is not the . *
> *I think by the way you were arguing about the necessity of CPs in
> neo-liberal context in previous mails, you should've argued that CP leaders
> should be above the bourgiuoes law of PCA... clean and uncontaminated*
> ..
>
> Governors, of course are pawns in the hands of the central governemnt and
> the CBI is no great independent instituion. But is it not desirable that
> Communist Party leader and the CP institution as such should be above such
> posts?
>
> I am afraid that the way CPM has managed Lavalin, since the formation of
> this Govt., has in turn helped the reactionary forces.
>
> The stubborn stance of CPM has enabled the bourgeous parties reap the
> dividends of its mis-managed strategy.
>
> ( I referrred to "formation of this Govt" bocz when Lavalin issue came up
> last time, Com. secy has boldly said that he is ready to face any inquiry.
> The boldness was missing later, :-) :-) :-) only to be found in the words
> of English Desabhimani, I mean the Hindu editorial.)
>
> CPM has given an impression that something is severely rotten by the way it
> handled the issue.
>
> The media syndicate must have done its duty but the stance of CPM as
> regards non-compliance to judicial review only complicated the matter.
>
> As an enthusiast of CPM brand politics and observing politics above
> factional self-ineterests, *you* should be more worrying about the
> moral- voice of CPM at national level.
>
> The red card often held out by the CPM on corrupt practice and tainted
> ministers will no longer be available.
>
> The argument of political fight on legal issues is not only avaliable to
> CPM. Now this will echoed by anyone.. i mean all the "compradors"..
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Abdul Rasheed wrote:
>
>>
>> *That does not mean that Governer is impartial. Sure, advocate General
>> might have party interests. As one who have the right to criticize the AG,
>> we can criticize the Governer too, since both of them are party nominees.
>> *
>> **
>> *But here the Governer acted against the advise of ministry and the
>> advise of AG. He may have the discreetional power to take such a dicision.
>> By doing this, here he became the part of a political game.*
>> **
>> **
>> *regards *
>> *Rasheed *
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:02 AM, damodar prasad 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Since Advocate General is elected by the people, to think he will take a
>>> partial decision is against the commonsense.
>>> But never had I thought a post-modern situation would prevail amidst the
>>> feudal factional struggle for Leninist Truth.
>>> What more eveidence needed for a the arrival of political relativism, in
>>> other words, Most-Modern!!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Abdul Rasheed wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> *The Governer is the nominee of the ruling party in centre. To think
>>>> that he will take a completely impartial dicisions will be a stupidity.
>>>> *
>>>> **
>>>> *regards *
>>>> *Rasheed *
>>>>   **
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, sunil kumar wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Governor can sanction Minister's prosecution, says Supreme Court *
>>>>>
>>>>> By Our Legal Correspondent
>>>>>
>>>>>  NEW DELHI, NOV. 5. The Supreme Court today held that the Governor of
>>>>> a State could independently accord sanction for prosecution of a Minister 
>>>>> in
>>>>> prevention of corruption cases without the "aid and advice" of the Council
>>>>> of Ministers.
>>>>>
>>>>> A five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Justice N. Santosh Hegde,
>>>>> observed that "if on facts and circumstances of a case, the Governor 
>>>>> cannot
>>>>> act in his own discretion there would be a complete breakdown of the rule 
>>>>> of
>>>>> law inasmuch as it would then be open for Governments to refuse sanction 
>>>>> in
>>>>> spite of overwhel

[GreenYouth] Re: Governor can sanction Minister's prosecution, says Supreme Court 2004

[damodar prasad]

*But Rasheed, Is not the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA)- a Bourgieous
enactment to save its crass compardor public leaders. *
*I think by the way you were arguing about the necessity of CPs in
neo-liberal context in previous mails, you should've argued that CP leaders
should be above the bourgiuoes law of PCA... clean and uncontaminated*..

Governors, of course are pawns in the hands of the central governemnt and
the CBI is no great independent instituion. But is it not desirable that
Communist Party leader and the CP institution as such should be above such
posts?

I am afraid that the way CPM has managed Lavalin, since the formation of
this Govt., has in turn helped the reactionary forces.

The stubborn stance of CPM has enabled the bourgeous parties reap the
dividends of its mis-managed strategy.

( I referrred to "formation of this Govt" bocz when Lavalin issue came up
last time, Com. secy has boldly said that he is ready to face any inquiry.
The boldness was missing later, :-) :-) :-) only to be found in the words of
English Desabhimani, I mean the Hindu editorial.)

CPM has given an impression that something is severely rotten by the way it
handled the issue.

The media syndicate must have done its duty but the stance of CPM as regards
non-compliance to judicial review only complicated the matter.

As an enthusiast of CPM brand politics and observing politics above
factional self-ineterests, *you* should be more worrying about the
moral- voice of CPM at national level.

The red card often held out by the CPM on corrupt practice and tainted
ministers will no longer be available.

The argument of political fight on legal issues is not only avaliable to
CPM. Now this will echoed by anyone.. i mean all the "compradors"..








On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Abdul Rasheed  wrote:

>
> *That does not mean that Governer is impartial. Sure, advocate General
> might have party interests. As one who have the right to criticize the AG,
> we can criticize the Governer too, since both of them are party nominees.
> *
> **
> *But here the Governer acted against the advise of ministry and the advise
> of AG. He may have the discreetional power to take such a dicision. By doing
> this, here he became the part of a political game.*
> **
> **
> *regards *
> *Rasheed *
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:02 AM, damodar prasad 
> wrote:
>
>> Since Advocate General is elected by the people, to think he will take a
>> partial decision is against the commonsense.
>> But never had I thought a post-modern situation would prevail amidst the
>> feudal factional struggle for Leninist Truth.
>> What more eveidence needed for a the arrival of political relativism, in
>> other words, Most-Modern!!
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Abdul Rasheed wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> *The Governer is the nominee of the ruling party in centre. To think
>>> that he will take a completely impartial dicisions will be a stupidity.
>>> *
>>> **
>>> *regards *
>>> *Rasheed *
>>>   **
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, sunil kumar wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Governor can sanction Minister's prosecution, says Supreme Court *
>>>>
>>>> By Our Legal Correspondent
>>>>
>>>>  NEW DELHI, NOV. 5. The Supreme Court today held that the Governor of a
>>>> State could independently accord sanction for prosecution of a Minister in
>>>> prevention of corruption cases without the "aid and advice" of the Council
>>>> of Ministers.
>>>>
>>>> A five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Justice N. Santosh Hegde,
>>>> observed that "if on facts and circumstances of a case, the Governor cannot
>>>> act in his own discretion there would be a complete breakdown of the rule 
>>>> of
>>>> law inasmuch as it would then be open for Governments to refuse sanction in
>>>> spite of overwhelming material showing that a *prima facie* case is
>>>> made out."
>>>>
>>>> The Bench that included Justice S.N. Variava, Justice B.P. Singh,
>>>> Justice H.K. Sema and Justice S.B. Sinha said: "If, in cases where [a]
>>>> *prima facie* case is clearly made out, sanction to prosecute high
>>>> functionaries is refused or withheld, democracy itself will be at stake. It
>>>> would then lead to a situation where people in power may break the law with
>>>> impunity safe in the knowledge that they will not be prosecuted as the
>>>> requisite sanction will not be granted."

[GreenYouth] Re: Governor can sanction Minister's prosecution, says Supreme Court 2004

[damodar prasad]

Since Advocate General is elected by the people, to think he will take a
partial decision is against the commonsense.
But never had I thought a post-modern situation would prevail amidst the
feudal factional struggle for Leninist Truth.
What more eveidence needed for a the arrival of political relativism, in
other words, Most-Modern!!


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Abdul Rasheed  wrote:

>
> *The Governer is the nominee of the ruling party in centre. To think that
> he will take a completely impartial dicisions will be a stupidity. *
> **
> *regards *
> *Rasheed *
>   **
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, sunil kumar wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> *Governor can sanction Minister's prosecution, says Supreme Court *
>>
>> By Our Legal Correspondent
>>
>>  NEW DELHI, NOV. 5. The Supreme Court today held that the Governor of a
>> State could independently accord sanction for prosecution of a Minister in
>> prevention of corruption cases without the "aid and advice" of the Council
>> of Ministers.
>>
>> A five-judge Constitution Bench, headed by Justice N. Santosh Hegde,
>> observed that "if on facts and circumstances of a case, the Governor cannot
>> act in his own discretion there would be a complete breakdown of the rule of
>> law inasmuch as it would then be open for Governments to refuse sanction in
>> spite of overwhelming material showing that a *prima facie* case is made
>> out."
>>
>> The Bench that included Justice S.N. Variava, Justice B.P. Singh, Justice
>> H.K. Sema and Justice S.B. Sinha said: "If, in cases where [a] *prima
>> facie* case is clearly made out, sanction to prosecute high functionaries
>> is refused or withheld, democracy itself will be at stake. It would then
>> lead to a situation where people in power may break the law with impunity
>> safe in the knowledge that they will not be prosecuted as the requisite
>> sanction will not be granted."
>>
>> The Bench gave this ruling while upholding sanction for prosecution
>> accorded by the then Madhya Pradesh Governor against two former Ministers,
>> Rajender Kumar Singh and Hisahu Ram Yadav. A case under the Prevention of
>> Corruption Act was registered against them in March 1998 on the basis of a
>> report from the Lok Ayukta.
>>
>> Sanction sought from the Council of Ministers for prosecuting the two was
>> rejected. The Council of Ministers held that there was not an iota of
>> material available against them for proceeding with the case. The Governor
>> then considered the matter and opined that a *prima facie* case was made
>> out for granting sanction and gave it under Section 197 of the Criminal
>> Procedure Code.
>>
>> The two Ministers challenged the Governor's decision in the High Court and
>> both a single Judge and then a Division Bench quashed the Governor's order.
>> The special leave petition by the Madhya Pradesh Special Police
>> Establishment was directed against this judgment.
>>
>>  **
>>
>> © Copyright 2000 - 2009 The Hindu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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[GreenYouth] facing an anti-incumbency wave is very difficult, but we have to address it.”

[damodar prasad]

http://www.livemint.com/2009/06/01002749/It8217s-difficult-to-face-a.html
Kolkata: Following its worst electoral performance in West Bengal in 32
years, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, is worried that it
may not be able to reverse the anti-incumbency wave that cost it 20 Lok
Sabha seats in the Lok Sabha polls before the assembly election in 2011.
The party is contemplating a change in leadership at the state level with an
eye on the assembly election, according to Nirupam Sen, West Bengal’s
commerce and industries minister and the No. 2 in the state cabinet.
 [image: Who’s to blame? Bengal ministerand CPM politburo member Nirupam
Sen. Indranil Bhoumik / Mint] Who’s to blame? Bengal ministerand CPM
politburo member Nirupam Sen. Indranil Bhoumik / Mint
“It’s too early to predict (the outcome of the 2011 assembly election), but
yes, it is going to be a tough job—not an easy task at all,” Sen said in an
interview. “Because we have been in power for so long, facing this kind of
an anti-incumbency wave is very difficult, but we have to address it.”
“The results of the general election show that a section of the people wants
the Left Front to go…,” said Sen, who is also a member of the CPM’s
politburo—the party’s highest decision-making body.
“We will try to overcome the problems, but it is really a tough job because
in two years, how much tangible change can we bring about? And it’s going to
be tougher because of the economic downturn—my personal view is things are
going to get worse and more people are likely going to lose jobs this year.”
Asked if the CPM was weighing options on changing its leadership at the
state level, Sen said, “Some changes are bound to happen. We are discussing
among ourselves.”
In the general election, the CPM’s vote share in the state fell 5.5% from
what it was in 2004 to 33%. The party and its allies—the Forward Bloc, the
Revolutionary Socialist Party and the Communist Party of India, or
CPI—together got 43.3% of the vote, 7.5% less than in 2004, and won only 15
of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state; in 2004, they had secured 35.
The key gainer was the Trinamool Congress—the state’s main opposition party
led by Mamata Banerjee—which, in alliance with the Congress, won 25 seats,
with the Trinamool Congress winning 19 and the Congress, six. An independent
candidate backed by the Trinamool Congress also won, taking the opposition’s
tally in the state to 26.
Details of the polling show that the CPM and its allies received fewer votes
than the Congress-Trinamool Congress combine in 193 of the 294 assembly
segments in the state; in the 2006 state election, they had secured 235
assembly seats.
Edited excerpts:
*Why did the CPM and its allies perform so poorly in the general election?*

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[GreenYouth] Sadanand Menon: What 'reality' did the Left lose touch with?

[damodar prasad]

The Left might have become the laughing stock of the nation post elections,
but laugh is the last thing we should be doing. It is a matter of tremendous
concern that a country with such a vast pool of industrial and agricultural
proletariat has just 24 Members in Parliament to speak on their behalf.

This is the lowest ever since the first Parliament of 1952, during which
time the strength of the Left on the floor was matched by their
extra-parliamentary strength in the field with representative control over
peasant and worker organisations and syndicates. Not like at present when
the low numbers in Parliament is matched by a drastically shrunk base in
representative bodies of working class interests.

So is the Left leadership worried in any way? From the tone of the inner
party stock-taking going on in the CPI(M), in Kolkata, Delhi and
Thiruvananthapuram; and the preambles to the forthcoming June 6 meeting of
the CPI in Coimbatore, it certainly does not seem like any lessons have been
learnt or any yardsticks for evaluation have been evolved. All one hears are
strident and arrogant sounds indulging in mutual slanging, just looking for
scapegoats to apportion blame.

The question arises, what are the criteria for self-evaluation that Left
parties should be laying down? Is it at all a ‘political’ evaluation to
propose (as in Kerala, for example) that the Left was drubbed due to its
poor alliance strategies (particularly with the communal People’s Democratic
Party of Madhani) or due to the whiff of a financial scam that enveloped it
in the wake of the SNC Lavalin case. How ‘political’ is it to lay the reason
for their setback at the door of something as silly as inner-party
dog-fights (in this case, the prolonged spat between Chief Minster V S
Achuthanandan and the CPI(M) party Secretary Pinrayi Vijayan)?

In other words, these are mere day-to-day events in the life of any party
and stuff on which their electoral strategies are built. But what should
distinguish ‘Left’ evaluation from the rest? Is it enough for them to be
stuck in the rut of the ‘tactics and strategies’ discourse? Or is it
important that they embark on the route of a theoretical evaluation which
tries to find answers to a whole range of new questions?

Some of the questions that demand answers in a public sense need
enumeration. Like, why is it that in this time and age, the Left is
splintered into three — the CPI, CPI(M) and the CPI(ML)? It has been a good
twenty-five years since anyone has even bothered to analyse what the
ideological divisions between these three and their various off-shoots are.
Besides delivering the conventional gyan than the two big CPs are
parliamentary and believe in the ballot-box while the ML are
extra-parliamentary and profess the line of ‘armed revolution’, we really
have not had either a serious theoretical analysis nor a theoretical debate
on the reasons for the continued fractiousness of the Left or why it is so
impossible for the splinters to fuse together into a common front.

It’s not now enough to admit, like a few senior leaders of the CPI(M) did,
that the party has lost touch with ‘reality’. We also need to hear what that
idea of ‘reality’ is with which they feel distanced. Is it possible that the
organised Left has steadily been losing touch with newly-developing
realities, regionally, nationally and internationally?

*One has not heard party leaders telling us about, say, climate change or
why caste is consolidating in India or how they understand emerging issues
of gender, ecology or culture. We have not heard from Left parties on why
they stand opposed to opponents of mega-projects like dams, SEZs or nuclear
programmes who have been taking up the cause of millions of internally
displaced people. We have not heard from them on issues of human rights
abuses in India; for example, neither the parties nor individuals within it
even made a token noise against the treatment of someone like Binayak Sen.
Even after the initial absurd justifications for what happened in Nandigram,
they seemed to lack the courage to face the truth. They have not been able
to explain why they need to wait for a global capitalist like Tata to
develop West Bengal industrially before obtaining the ideal conditions for a
proletarian revolution in the state*.

The Left parties have not been able to explain their holier-than-thou
posture, when it is clear that they have devolved into a conservative,
inflexible, intellectually moribund club, mortally scared of both
self-critique or external evaluation. But one would like to offer a critique
from the outside here. It is from Karl Marx who warned us (in ‘The 18th
Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte’) against “doctrinaire socialism” which
“surrenders this socialism to the petty bourgeoisie.” This is the ‘reality’
the Left needs to ponder.

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[GreenYouth] Re: Dialogue with Congress

[damodar prasad]

Once again thank you for the great empathsing response. I rarely get such
pleasant responses

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Abdul Rasheed  wrote:

>  *That is better. What we are seeing is, when a congress supporter
> criticize CPI-M or the Left, he himself claims impartial- just a trick
> to avoid questions back *
> **
> *You are better in that case *
> **
> *regards *
> *Rasheed *
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:34 AM, damodar prasad 
> wrote:
>
>> A.Rasheed,
>> Thank you for helping me to know where I stand. Now I may like to sit
>> there as well.
>> btw, the CPM has become incredible, we know (as in incredible India)?
>>
>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Abdul Rasheed wrote:
>>
>>>  *Why dont we dialogue with Congress?.. a party which has a better
>>> vision of future than the anachronistic views of Left (non-traditonal also
>>> included)
>>> dear viswanath, better to avoid a debate with CPM votaries. It is not
>>> going to help us nor them...*
>>>
>>> *Mr. D.Prasad, this statement underlines where you stand. *
>>> **
>>> *What is the better vision of congress? *
>>> *More than 70% of our peoples' daily income is less than 20 Rupees.
>>> Where is "Ghareebe Ghadawo" now? *
>>> *"incredible India"*
>>> **
>>> *regards *
>>> *Rasheed *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:24 AM, damodar prasad <
>>> damodar.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Viswanath,
>>>> See, If Left and CPM in particualr wants to really do some serious
>>>> introspection, then the trends and indications has quite no: of lessons for
>>>> them to internalize and practice..
>>>>
>>>> However, nothing like that is going to happen.
>>>>
>>>> Btw, many CPM people want non-CPMs to elaborate on the verdict so that
>>>> they dont have to face the ire of top brass while things are being reported
>>>> and argued from the "Other" side.
>>>>
>>>> Descedant Marxists may appear disguised  as Pro-CPM and argue so that
>>>> contrary arguments are placed vehmently.
>>>>
>>>> I dont think Viswanath nor me have no such interests to argue for
>>>> anyside and mind that  when CPM state commt. is discussing the verdict, it
>>>> is better to listen to what CPM has to say on the verdict.
>>>>
>>>> *For so long, Left and CPM was always loacted on the one-side of the
>>>> discussion.The arguments Pro/Anti/Non but was with the CPM. The Left and 
>>>> CPM
>>>> reigned. The dialogues was with the CPM & Left.*
>>>> **
>>>> *High time, we remove CPM from there. Why dont we dialogue with
>>>> Congress?.. a party which has a better vision of future than the
>>>> anachronistic views of Left (non-traditonal also included)
>>>> dear viswanath, better to avoid a debate with CPM votaries. It is not
>>>> going to help us nor them...*
>>>> **
>>>> *damodar prasad*
>>>> **
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM, C.K. Vishwanath <
>>>> ck_vishwanath2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -the left democratic politics of  kerala  led by CPIM has got a severe
>>>>> set back.the switching of the character of kerala voter-this analysis 
>>>>> won't
>>>>> give much confidence to the CPIM.Even ashok mitra has written so(the
>>>>> Telegraph).The real shock is from kannur and vadakara-The committed party
>>>>> votes are  no longer in the CPIM account. ,the active supporters of the
>>>>> party are searching for new alternatives.this is really a challenging
>>>>> scenario.from the days of 1940s,culcutta thesis,emergency,and other local
>>>>> issues never affected the party vote bank of these areas.PARTY is 
>>>>> total-this
>>>>> is lost.the contradiction between party and people is sharpening.This 
>>>>> impact
>>>>> is so deep in the history of CPIM.
>>>>> Just before the election,the cpim central committee member A.k.
>>>>> padmabhan given an interview to world socialist web in which he said that
>>>>> the administrative power which we got has no meaning at all.And this is 
>>&

[GreenYouth] Re: Dialogue with Congress

[damodar prasad]

A.Rasheed,
Thank you for helping me to know where I stand. Now I may like to sit there
as well.
btw, the CPM has become incredible, we know (as in incredible India)?

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Abdul Rasheed  wrote:

>  *Why dont we dialogue with Congress?.. a party which has a better vision
> of future than the anachronistic views of Left (non-traditonal also
> included)
> dear viswanath, better to avoid a debate with CPM votaries. It is not going
> to help us nor them...*
>
> *Mr. D.Prasad, this statement underlines where you stand. *
> **
> *What is the better vision of congress? *
> *More than 70% of our peoples' daily income is less than 20 Rupees. Where
> is "Ghareebe Ghadawo" now? *
> *"incredible India"*
> **
> *regards *
> *Rasheed *
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:24 AM, damodar prasad  > wrote:
>
>> Dear Viswanath,
>> See, If Left and CPM in particualr wants to really do some serious
>> introspection, then the trends and indications has quite no: of lessons for
>> them to internalize and practice..
>>
>> However, nothing like that is going to happen.
>>
>> Btw, many CPM people want non-CPMs to elaborate on the verdict so that
>> they dont have to face the ire of top brass while things are being reported
>> and argued from the "Other" side.
>>
>> Descedant Marxists may appear disguised  as Pro-CPM and argue so that
>> contrary arguments are placed vehmently.
>>
>> I dont think Viswanath nor me have no such interests to argue for
>> anyside and mind that  when CPM state commt. is discussing the verdict, it
>> is better to listen to what CPM has to say on the verdict.
>>
>> *For so long, Left and CPM was always loacted on the one-side of the
>> discussion.The arguments Pro/Anti/Non but was with the CPM. The Left and CPM
>> reigned. The dialogues was with the CPM & Left.*
>> **
>> *High time, we remove CPM from there. Why dont we dialogue with
>> Congress?.. a party which has a better vision of future than the
>> anachronistic views of Left (non-traditonal also included)
>> dear viswanath, better to avoid a debate with CPM votaries. It is not
>> going to help us nor them...*
>> **
>> *damodar prasad*
>> **
>>
>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:59 AM, C.K. Vishwanath <
>> ck_vishwanath2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -the left democratic politics of  kerala  led by CPIM has got a severe
>>> set back.the switching of the character of kerala voter-this analysis won't
>>> give much confidence to the CPIM.Even ashok mitra has written so(the
>>> Telegraph).The real shock is from kannur and vadakara-The committed party
>>> votes are  no longer in the CPIM account. ,the active supporters of the
>>> party are searching for new alternatives.this is really a challenging
>>> scenario.from the days of 1940s,culcutta thesis,emergency,and other local
>>> issues never affected the party vote bank of these areas.PARTY is total-this
>>> is lost.the contradiction between party and people is sharpening.This impact
>>> is so deep in the history of CPIM.
>>> Just before the election,the cpim central committee member A.k. padmabhan
>>> given an interview to world socialist web in which he said that the
>>> administrative power which we got has no meaning at all.And this is not a
>>> political power.The problem is that they are sill failing to give a good
>>> governance to the people.
>>> Even people's democratic path is far off.And socialism is very far off.He
>>> underlined the comments of EMS in 1957.And globalisation process has cut off
>>> the funds getting from the central govt.
>>> there are many confusions-pragmatic electoral games,governance etc in the
>>> political praxis of cpim.
>>>
>>> --- On Sun, 24/5/09, Abdul Rasheed  wrote:
>>>
>>> > From: Abdul Rasheed 
>>> > Subject: [GreenYouth] Re: Vaikom Viswan and Little Bo-Peep
>>> > To: greenyouth@googlegroups.com
>>> > Date: Sunday, 24 May, 2009, 9:39 PM
>>>  > Mr. D. Prasad,
>>> >
>>> > You taking out just a
>>> > figure from the article of Vaikom Viswan and defining it.
>>> > As you said, a small swing can change the victory to one
>>> > side and that is what happened here.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Of course, there
>>> > was erosion in CPI-M vote base (internal problems
>>> > and divisions are the problem)  and some LDF