so the sugatakumari mafia will also hijjack Athirappilly??????!!!!!!!!!!! "Abhayam" tharooooooooo.....arku?
So, anybody questioning intolerence [ not criticism] toward Sugathakumari will be part of "Sugathakumari Mafia", isn't it? I try to question this mark already drawn and endorsed by many here. Why? Simply because I believe 100 % that if somebody expressing intolerence in this manner attains power, all political enemies/ critics will be eliminated. There is a Stalinist line behind such synicism. It might look heroic and democratic while done part of 'resistences' [ i.e: while they are not in power] but will show their true color at the first chance. Branding each and every one who critcised traditional left as 'CIA charan" is a case in point. Hate Campaigns can't be rationalised and legitimised through sensible political criticism provided posthoc. Ref: 1. Kiliroor Sex Racket Case why mallu media protecting her? Let me tell my personal experience with mallu media on the very case you refer [as if everything is self evident] Madhyamam Weekly published a coverstory aginst Sugathakumari with a cover 'Abhayam?" [ Ranjith style! I suspect there is an anti Sugathakumari mallu Mafia :) ] after the verdict on Kiliroor case came. Geetha [ not Geedha] wrote a lengthy article. Ceratin accusations were raised with no evidence. [ like she prompted the victim to visit Sree Sree Ravi Sankar, she refused to cooperate with Malayalam visual media when the verdict came, she discourages the victim from proceeding in legal struggles etc.] Reshma and I wrote a letter asking Geetha to substanciate the allegations. She readily branded us as part of 'Mafia' but provided no evidence. Sugathakumari wrote a detailed reply in which she effectively refuted all the alllegations. If somebody read it, it will be evident how Sugathakumari stood with the girl over a decade and tried to empower her and how somebody coming into the picture all of a sudden is able to tarnish her without any substance. More important, Geetha never wrote / explained in response to that article. I contacted the edit team of madhyamam and asked on what ground they published it. They told me that it was a misunderstanding created by Geetha. [ So the verty fact that few people belive certain things and master in a poisonous language to tarnish every other who think differently, mallu media take it for granted!] Ranjith, let's leave Geetha, tell me what is the sin commited by Sugathakumari in Kiliroor case? Sanil, your proposal of "experience in ground level struggles" as a criteria for participating in this discussion is an age-old debate-scuttling device perfected by orthodox Marxists. That is not what I said. You are consciously trivialising my point for polemical purpose. I put forward my surmise why such intolerence and synicism arise in the first instance. That is not proposing a criteria for participating in a 'discussion'. On the contrary I meant it as a request to think from struggling people's perspective, which is possible from any distance. I never claimed authority / experience in groundlevel struggles. That is immaterial here. Perhaps, this could exactly be the point where I politically disagree with you on many of the other arguments as well. What I find crucial in Narmada, Athirappalli and other environmental issues is the right of the local people to decide on matters effecting their life / environment. Questions of Science, authority, statistics, support of people from outside, differences of opinion among them etc. are second oreder points for me. [ I remember K. Venu writing about the relief he expirienced while in jail during emergency to read O.V.Vijayan's article aginst it in Kalakoumudi, though he was thouroughly critical of Vijayan. There are hundreds of 'emergencies' inpresentday world and how people experinece certain interventions won't be self evident to other staying at a 'distance', not necessarily an elitist one!] Isn't it ridiculous to believe that a person like Sugathakumari could singlehandedly hijack the continuing struggle of Athirappalli? I understand that CPI local supporters are now part of the struggle and certain activists in the struggle are aprehensive of their participation. As single issue movements are keen on achieving concrete results they are flexible while remaining uncompromoising on their standpoints. Synical comments always smacks of those eternal campaigners self rghteous belief that anything less than total systemic change is reactionary. Is't a [ logical, practical] impossibility that people who idealogically differ can't come together on comon platform on certain issues? If Sugathakumari is somebody with proven antipeople record like Modi please convince us. While reading/ viewing reports of Sugatha's visit to athirappalli, i got the impression that it gave a new momentum to the struggle. Finally, do everybody here share the consensus that being romantic is reactionary? [ and being instrumental is revolutionary?] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
