Dear all who have posted their thoughts on this topic.
I really find the headline depressing. I think the
reference is to the "discovery" of condoms in his
workplace by some smart police officer.
Padmanabhan VT
--- Murali K Warier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I quite frequently see the 'we' moniker used in this
> forum in relation to a
> range of topics, but nobody finds any brahminical
> conspiracy nor attempts to
> impose idiosyncrasies in them. Be that as it may,
> the last two posts remind
> me of a comment about 'pre-emptive blogging' by a
> blogger:
>
> 1. We criticize X (where X represents a person, a
> government or a political
> movement).
>
> 2. One or more commenters responds, not with a
> direct defense of X, but with
> "What about Y (where Y represents a person, a
> government or a political
> movement for which we supposedly have more
> sympathy), who did something we
> consider just as bad, if not worse."
>
> 3. Despite protestations (of subject-changing,
> unfair moral equivalence,
> etc.), the commenters of paragraph 2 believe they
> have achieved stalemate,
> if not checkmate.
> Venugopalan and Ranjit made several wrong
> assumptions about me, but the most
> prominent ones among them are that I am a religious
> Hindu and that I am
> sympathetic to the 'Y', that is Hindutva. The
> insistence that everybody
> prove their secular credentials by bashing Hindutva
> whenever they criticize
> other equally pernicious identity politics from
> other parties, according to
> me is fundamentally no different from the RSS
> insistence that Muslims prove
> their patriotism.
>
> Identity politics is bad, whether practiced by
> Madani, RSS or Narayana
> Panicker.
>
> Best regards,
> Murali.
>
> On 8/5/07, Venugopalan K M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > A Hindu believes what he likes to believe /what he
> wants to believe.
> >
> >
> --
>
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>
> A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a
> statistic.
> - Joseph Stalin
>
> To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is
> unnecessary.
> These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail.
> This is a
> revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold
> killing
> machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the
> pedagogy
> of the paredon (The Wall)!
> - Che Guevara
>
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>
>
>
>
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