Neither village nor city is static. There are power structures, resistences,
countermovements etc. When somebody valorise village or city, that is being done from the specific location they are speaking from. Thus I feel, Ranjith's feelings are quite understandable though without problems. Though I don't know Deepak [ and I wish he won't take this as labeling or calling names] , I could say with certainty that he occupies an advantaged position[ in caste, class, gender terms] in the hierarchy of the village . No, there is nothing like an 'organic' community. It is power ridden. Whatever spaces are made for the disadvantaged are created through 'violent' as well as prolonged struggles. going in exile could be a way out in certain situations. But people staying back are trying to 'problematise' the model from within. The complex interactions between the global happenings and the local relations need nuanced interrogations. I don't think the situation in a middle Kerala village would have been thus a decade ago. It has to do with the global politics, militarisation of state as well as the transformations in the pan Kerala dynamics between different communities. Murali's friend's experience demand a stocktaking of these changing social map of Kerala in detail , not chanting of age old manthras.. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
