In India the scum rules to fulfill the agenda of the elites and in Pakistan the other way around? I prefer the first option!!
'Naresh' Narasimhan On 12-Jan-2011, at 12:06 PM, Supriya Nair <supriya.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Indrajit Gupta <bonoba...@yahoo.co.in> > wrote: > --- On Wed, 12/1/11, Supriya Nair <supriya.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apart from the shock value of that statement, do you see no difference? > > Certainly I do. But Ghose, as I read her column, seems to be asking a > question that is already adequately answered by history: are there people in > India who think it is valid to construct and enforce nationalism through > brutality? Yes. Could this violence take the form of political assassination? > Yes. > > As you say, it is a political reality even for people who may not be national > figures of suspicion and hate, people who are neither Gandhi nor Taseer, nor > yet Arundhati Roy. > > S > > It is when a tailor get knifed for stating a political belief in a tea-shop > conversation that democracy comes to a grinding halt, not, shocking though it > may seem at first blush. > > >
