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--- On Wed, 1/7/09, Frederick "FN" Noronha <f...@goa-india.org> wrote:
>
> Is "having Jan Sanghi/RSS roots" a cardinal sin:-) Pun intended!
>
> I think not!
>
> Vidyadhar Gadgil has himself been in the RSS for a year or
> two, if I recall rightly what he mentioned. For a (usually)
> "upper" caste Maharashtrian boy (and now, in many more parts of India)
> being in the RSS is simply like membership of a boys club, the Boy
> Scouts of the post-Empire just after the sun set on it, Mocidade
> Portuguesa in Salazar's Goa, or the Young Pioneers of the former
> Eastern Bloc countries.
>
Why is Vidhyadhar Gadgil not guilty by association with RSS?
On another front, when Frederick was discrediting someone else, using garbage,
whom he referred to as a strange person for some reason, he called it rightful
criticism of a public figure or some such thing. Now when people are merely
unwilling to believe the "facts" reported by journalists and activists because
of their overtly stated biases, he is whining that these poor upright folk like
John Dayal and Vijay Prashad are being unfairly discredited on Goanet.
What a spectacular display of talking from both sides of his mouth, and both
ends of his body!
This is pure self-serving political posturing based on convenience and the
wind, not secularism or concern for the minorities of any kind.
Cheers,
Santosh
