Responding to this to make a point about the Kerala website and Cdit why do you need to call it as 'whorish' ? What is the connection? You repeat the term 'whoredom'! I wonder even after all the struggles of the sex worker's movement in kerala, men have no shame in using these terminologies! I understand your anger, but to show it, is it necessary to abuse sex workers? What have they got to do with it? Or do you think C-dit or any other organisation in Kerala is selling some better services than a sexworker sells? We need to be sensitive about the language we use. Also many of us donot think that sex work is lesser than writing/intellectual work. Aryan
On 6/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mr.Rajeendra, please mind your words, especially when you are writing to a > group mail.Regarding Parasurama, it's just a myth. We Keralites beleive it > as a myth nad one can distinguish myth and history. You can disbeleive, but > why do want to hurt the feeling of others with obscene words. You are > beating an unnecessary bush, when there are sores of other issues is to be > discussed > > Love > > BijuQuoting Rajeendra Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Stupid government websites and their whorish contents > > Kerala government websites are notoriously stupid. Most of them are > created > > by C-Dit, an institution where dirty politics alone has sway. C-dit has > no > > academic business. The pinnacle of knowhow there is making hologram > stickers > > for liquor bottles. I don't know who the heck they employ to write > learnt > > content for their website. > > > > Almost every webpage that tells something general about Kerala has > whorish > > content that shamelessly trumpets its exaggerated "natural beauties". > Yes, > > these websites (and other sites that sell tourism) pose Kerala as a > cheap > > whore that touts brazenly crying out her assets. You won't see two > > paragraphs together without multiple instances of that fucking stupid > phrase > > (God's own */*&%$#) which has been repeated ad nauseam. Here's a sample: > > "Cascading delicately down the hills to the golden coasts covered by > verdant > > coconut groves..." > > > > Apart from the whoredom, there is the question of misinformation. What > the > > heck is Parasuram's relation with the history of Kerala? Of course, a > > history of Kerala will have to treat that myth. But why should a bare > > outline on the government website should mention this hatchet wielder? > (I > > think there is some shady reasons for that. This might sound like a > > conspiracy theory, but it is worth looking into. A subject for a > separate > > post.) > > See this page > > http://www.kerala.gov.in/knowkerala/profile.htm > > "Kerala attracted the notice of people in other parts of India even from > > time immemorial. It is evident from the many reference to the land of in > > ancient Sanskrit works. The Aitareya Aranyaka is the earliest Sanskrit > work, > > which specifically mentions Kerala. The great Epics Ramayana and > > Mahabharatha, show awareness of Kerala on the part of their authors. > > Katyayana (4th century BC) and Pathanjali (2nd Century BC) show their > > acquaintance with the geography of Kerala. Kautilya's Arthasastra > mentions > > Kerala. The puranas also mention Kerala.Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa has given > a > > beautiful description of Kerala." > > This is a stupid re-hashment of a passage from Sreedharamenon's 1967 > book. > > In Sreedharamenon the mention in Aitareya Aranyaka is about cherapadar, > > apparently incidental. When some rehasher processes it, it becomes > specific > > mention. (A further rehashment is seen in Wikiepedia article on Kerala, > > which is arch-stupid.) > > Further: http://www.kerala.gov.in/history&culture/earlyhistory.htm > > "They constructed strange burial monuments in granite, literate[sic] and > > pottery..." > > "In fact, there is very little evidence of the old and the new stone > ages in > > Kerala." > > Here's is the best instance of all. > > http://www.kerala.gov.in/history&culture/history&cul.htm > > "The ancient history of Kerala is shrouded in the mists of tradition. > The > > most popular legend would have it that the land crust that forms the > State > > was raised from the depths of the ocean. Parasurama, the Brahmin avatar > > (incarnation) of Lord Vishnu, had waged an epic series of vengeful wars > on > > the Kshatriyas. Came a moment when Parasurama was struck by remorse at > the > > wanton annihilation he had wrought. He offered severe penance atop the > > mountain heights. In a mood of profound atonement, the sage heaved his > > mighty axes into the midst of the distant ocean. The waves foamed and > > frothed as a prawn-shaped land extending from Gokarnam to Kanyakumari > > surfaced from the depths of the sea to form the state and hence the > > sobriquet - "Gods own Country". > > > > /> > > > -- "...ironically, perhaps, the best organised dissenters in the world today are anarchists, who are busily undermining capitalism while the rest of the left is still trying to form committees." -- Jeremy Hardy, The Guardian (UK) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
