The link given in Murali's last post is Surjit Bhalla's Web response (Less
than a grain of
truthhttp://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20051021fname=surjitbhallasid=1)
to Sainath's article Lost the
compass?http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20051017fname=CP+Sainathsid=1
appeared in
*The Lords of Capital Decree
Mass Death by Starvation*
*By Glen Ford *
30 April, 2008
*Black Agenda
Reporthttp://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=589Itemid=1
*
*
No amount of emergency aid is sufficient to make up for the wild price
rises that have already
*The Challenge Of Modern Slavery *
*By Loretta Napoleoni *
01 May, 2008
*Countercurrents.org*
*S*lavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee,
slave labor brings food to our tables. Miguel, a Mexican slave freed by
the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a US
I break my promised silence to ask only one question - who does not work
within ideological frameworks? S A Aiyyar, Bobby Kunhu or Murali Warrier.
Sanath stands out only beacuse he is in the field when writing his
journalistic pieces as against Mr Aiyyar.
I would rather let others respond rather
Let me add this one comment, perhaps the last in this thread:
Sainath's problem is not that he frames issues in an ideological frame work.
Nor is it that he sensationalizes issues way beyond the limits. The issue is
that he dishes out wrong data and outright lies as eternal truth :
You dont need to read the NSS or Economic Survey of India or the annual
UNDP Human development report, just read any newspaper regularly and you
find stories of food crisis across the world post neo-liberalism. It hs
become acute especially now..
Again, where is the causality? Food crises and
To claim Swami Aiyar's credentials based on his Oxonian MA smacks of
colonial hangover and academic snobbery. To claim Swami Aiyar's credentials
based on his Oxonian MA smacks of colonial hangover and academic snobbery.
Sorry, you don't seem to have read what I wrote:
*At any rate, I value him
I think Afthabs post and Sainaths interview I posted here sufficiently
counters your arguments - they do resound arguments put forward by the
Chicago school and unfortunately unlike Friedman's presumptions the world
is not flat - and I for one - do not want to be part of a process that
exclude a
Dear Murali
To claim Swami Aiyar's credentials based on his Oxonian MA smacks of
colonial hangover and academic snobbery. My comparison with Sainath is a
simple one - Sainath has travelled extensively in the hinterland and his
reportage is based on findings on the field both of them being
Look at indian social and economic scenario.
India's new developmental path predicts a neo-liberal
utopia,majority of india's upwardly mobile middle
class is in this romantic utopia.
But,we are seeing the brutual living condition of
india's poor.They are losing the even minimal safety
nets of
That is the official report of india govt(arjun
sengupta).
What is witnessing in india.?starvation
deaths,ethnocide/genocide of adivasis,peasants
suicides.
Peasant resistances,naxalite movement of dandakaranaya
belt,tribal assertions,new social movements etc?Why do
these movements come to
One more factual error in your mail, Swami Aiyar is a economics journalist
and not an economist - consulting editor to Economic times and a widely read
column - this does not make a claim for empirical research, but for opinion.
A very typical Indian dominant caste arrogance that celebrates APJ
Dear Murali
Like I mentioned earliet, it might be relevant for you to step out of
swaminomics to sainath for instance. What is the leftist discourse you are
talking about and who are the straw men? Pleae look at he Gini -
coefficient for India in the past decade (computed by the World Bank) and
NGOistan is the abdication of the state, and EU is the superstate, that
imposes its own system through the back door. EU too in a way represents
abdication of the state. Both NGOistan and EU are non-democratic in nature,
though the latter has a parliament of sorts. However, the pernicious effects
The gape is widening due to these aggressive neo-liberal
policies(argusengupta's report on unorganised sector).
I often smile it this kind of straw-man attacks on neo-liberalism, which is
a regular feature of Leftist discourse. The assumption here is that India
has instituted wide ranging
Dear Murali,
Who is behind corruption, Poor people or Ambani likes?
Who is taking over fertile lands from farmers, forests from adivasis?
Where does the wealth created - in the minds of Ambanies or Tatas? Or the
natural resources which belong to all?
I do not agree with left critique at all.
But
Without doubt, NGOistan is a bad idea. So are supra-governments like the EU.
Best regards.
Murali
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:12 AM, C.K. Vishwanath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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*Caveat - *stray is a bad word intentionally used, where the presumption of
superiority of tradition is involved. stray in the view of organised
politics from the CPIM to the world bank
On 03/04/2008, Bobby Kunhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am confused
EU is the result of an embedded poltical
vishwanath did'nt say the example of any ngo, which started a movement in
the tribal belts.
movement referred here by dileep is political movement, i suppose.
the synthesis of a political movement will create political subjectivity of
the people who carry out that movement. in this way, which ngo
can you check EPW?(march 18,20004 where i responded to
D.Bandopadyaya's article-NGOs and Tribals)
--- salimtk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
vishwanath did'nt say the example of any ngo, which
started a movement in
the tribal belts.
movement referred here by dileep is political
movement, i
Especially,in cpim politics,there is a confusion about
NSM.But,Outside the ruling pockets, they are
supporting NSMs.In WSF ,cpim is vey active along with
various new social movements.The class politics of
cpim can't accept the NSM fully.The legacy of the nsm
is very different from this left
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