we all construct our arguments from ideological positions and as such, i think, the question of morality being pushed forward at this particular juncture when issues of dalit/subaltern raised in public/cyber spaces, would onlyled to undermine it socially/politically/// i do understand dilip's ethical concerns, but i ve posed my reservations against it, with particulr reference to theissue later in my mails. my "attack" was not aimed at a person, but his ideological positioning...personal choices need not be so personal...i think no need for me to say, personal is political and all those things.. and i cant see chitralekha issue as a local/regional issue which the frmework of new social movments could easily/happily accomodate.... it has a historical/cultural/social/political context and need to be placed within it...else it become part of one of the agendas of NGOs..this is perhaps the precise ideological diffrence btn me and dilip.. and it seems that the so called progressive voices of kerala refuse to accept the emerged dalit identiy politics... that's another resaon this is not the first time that this's happned...from my interactions with dalit activists and intellectuals i gather that they all have faced similar problems and morality questions apart from physical attacks from the progressive/mainstream/etc it still remains
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