In 2019 I finally recognized that the seemingly irreconcilable binary created between Gandhi's and Ambedkar's views on caste and Indian society was entirely false thanks to the peerless writing of DR Nagaraj in The Flaming Feet. One talk in 2017-ish by Dr Mogalli Ganesh had initially put this idea in my head but Nagaraj's book is such an incredible scholarly work that it blew my mind with its insights, clarity of thought and scholarship. TL;DR Nagaraj points out that Ambedkar and Gandhi were far more influenced by each other than their present adherents would like to believe, and in his view, both their approaches are needed to be synthesized to bring about any radical change in Indian society.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:52 AM Venkatesh H R <hrvenkat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realised that ‘good journalism’ is often bad as well because of deep > structural issues in the industry, and that the news as we know it might > need to die in order for something better to take its place. I also > realised that it’s time to stop reading the news as I do. Once a week is > probably fine. And this is coming from a current, practising journalist! > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:20 AM Biju Chacko <biju.cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I stopped being an optimist. Why? I read the newspapers. > > > > -- b > > > > PS: I've also stopped reading newspapers > > PPS. I'm only slightly joking. > > > > On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 09:32, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > > Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, > and > > > why? > > > > > > Udhay > > > > > > -- > > > > > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > > > -- > H R Venkatesh > John S. Knight Journalism Fellow 2019 > <https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2019/h-r-venkatesh/>, Stanford > University > Twitter: @hrvenkatesh > -- Alok Prasanna Kumar Advocate Ph: +919560065577
