tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post1564581417173767918..comments2024-01-20T01:42:55.034+05:30Comments on kufr: democracy is also jantar mantarkuffirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12137701734913669203noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-72664404121862402162010-09-12T14:02:05.729+05:302010-09-12T14:02:05.729+05:30AR wasn't preaching contempt for democracy, sh...AR wasn't preaching contempt for democracy, she was talking about how easy it is for privileged people to preach democracy rather than trying to understand how/why the people she was talking to had taken up the gun. <br /><br />I don't enjoy her prose style but I admire her willingness to try to empathize.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-31492733261823099312010-04-11T17:04:10.504+05:302010-04-11T17:04:10.504+05:30To anonymous@ 9.03
"Really ironical cos you l...To anonymous@ 9.03<br />"Really ironical cos you leave people with no other choice"<br /><br />I leave people with no choice ? what are you talking about ?Kirannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-44906898354968538092010-04-10T22:14:14.451+05:302010-04-10T22:14:14.451+05:30Kufr, it is interesting that though the maoists an...Kufr, it is interesting that though the maoists and the T separatists seem to share the same kind of language and grammar, their objectives and motivation do not converge. As you said the separtists would stil love to adhere to the model of bourgeois democracy. Becuase what they seek is the changes in the way wealth is shared between the two competing ruling classes (Andhra vs Telangana). The maoists on the otherhand seek complete dissolution of a democracy that exclusively serves the economic interests of ruling classes.<br /><br />Except for her writing skills, I wasn't a big fan of Ms Roy and mostly hated her as being hypocritic and unreasonable. But I am not able to ignore her current avatar standing up against the mining industrialists of DK and the government that supports them. I liked her writeup in the Outlook and she has a point when she asks if we should expect the exploited tribals to stage a protest at jantar mantar. The tribals and their maoist protectors are not an educated sophisticated lot like the current Telangana separatists fighting legally, intelectually, democratically, technologically and so on. Ms Roy believes that the tribals do not have the resources or the intellect to challenge the state in a democratic fashion. May be one day the state will prevail with brute force and bring the enclosure into 'mainstream' but the neglect of tribal concerns, apathy for their culture, and plunder of their habitats for the greed of ruling class establishments living else where will remain true.Sridharnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-59194380182989742862010-04-10T21:03:37.223+05:302010-04-10T21:03:37.223+05:30'Contempt For Democracy'
irony isn't ...'Contempt For Democracy'<br /><br />irony isn't it?? The very people who abuse it blatantly crying foul about the <b>"legitimate processes of a democracy" </b><br /><br />Really ironical cos you leave people with no other <b>choice</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14756769.post-77638617459541589122010-04-10T14:44:48.379+05:302010-04-10T14:44:48.379+05:30a beautiful article. When a movement claims that 1...a beautiful article. When a movement claims that 15 demoratic elections count for nothing and do no bestow demoractic credentials on anything they do not have a fig leaf to cover their contempt of democracy - parliamentary or otherwiseKiranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14919542214759721023noreply@blogger.com