Dear Mario, By "others" I suspect you mean me. It's ok, I'm a big girl, I can take it. I didn't jump on any bandwagon nor should the reasons escape you, as I make them adequately clear in my post.
Gilbert may have been amiss in accusing Avelino of writing the review, but what followed was also totally tangential i.e a) a protracted discussion on airline stewardesses and b)Gilbert's initial error. What, we as Goans didn't do was analyse the review by Pratap Mehta and see if it indeed it was a review or just the reviewer's own personal views projected as analysis of Edna's work. It does bother me, that a logical discourse of Pratap Mehta's review did not ensue. Not to belabour this post, since I would rather it die a natural death seeing that it has veered off course completely; but just to state one instance, Pratap Mehta writes this: "This claim is comforting to both fundamentalists and liberals: it is a way some fundamentalists can deny they really are so; and liberals can assert that they really understand what is going on." When Pratap makes this assertion, he is referencing an American definition of the word "liberal", no doubt a throwback to his Harvard days. This definition of the word, nor its juxtaposition to "fundamentalist" exists in the Indian context. I believe, what Gilbert was trying to say (before the Avelino "foot in the mouth" incident",) is how objective is Pratap's review of the work? Has he reviewed it in the context and climate that it is written in, has he reviewed the accuracy of her statements, her documentary? Or is he just imposing his own perceptions by way of "review". Edna wrote a book, which Pratap reviewed. Pratap has every right to do that, just as we have every right to question the legitimacy of his review. And the fact that instead of doing this, we Goans are fighting amongst ourselves about airline stewardesses and matters of trivia is indicative of our politics and our polity. Elisabeth ------------------------- Mario wrote: > Then some others who had also not read the book > jumped > on the band-wagon, for reasons that escape me. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list ([email protected])
