Why should there be a controversy here at all ? When same publisher has brought out two versions of the same story, with the protagonist's signature over both, quite many of us(perhaps without justification too), think that there must be a reason for re-telling or not re-telling the story.. While the first account of Nalini's story with I.Gopinath as narrator who was appointed by the protagonist herself could sell several impressions in quick succession , it succeeded at least to some extent in bringing to focus many a problematic of sex work. In this Malayalee literary world mostly defined by the status-quoist left and feminist sympathizers, there needed to be a break from the tradition to be initiated by someone with a different political conviction, political correctness apart. And in my opinion that was happening when the first script was caused to be published. One could well have expected other version or versions to come in with all the differences. One hopes that this were best done without personal prejudices toward the first narrator, criticisms including. Now it transpires as though criticism based on 'political correctness' is all right against X, and is not acceptable when it comes to the case of Y,or Z ! Further, as if the criticism of the first text were not convincing enough, personal accusations referring to the alleged mal- appropriation of share of royalty has also been brought in. One can see that cliques are being generated as though out of some default mechanism. These are obviously doing disservice to whatever common ground is there to defend in many hotly contested debates sympathetic to ways of assertions of marginalized subjects in sexuality.These appear to be schemed by one or many smart players in the publishing field, where individual's will to be part of any such clique matters less. This is bad enough. Gopinath's ability to prove (as he has offered) or otherwise, the mendacity of the allegation by Dileep, of depriving Nalini of the share of royalty due to her seems to be absolutely irrelevant to this discussion. Anyway, as he has offered to disprove this allegation, his doing it immediately is most welcome.
On 10/21/07, ranju radha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > muttathu varky was refering not Gopinath, but the culture of fanfare that > still relished by mallus > 'lies' and 'truth' are not to be proved, i think > but if u insist and if he also shares ur thought let it be... > allelum ettukalikentha mammonjinte kadayil karyam alle.. (..) > > > On 10/21/07, salimtk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > i didnt know what muttathu varki said was about gopinath.. :) > > anyway, ranju radha, gopinath has something to 'prove' lies. so let him > > do it. > > > > On 10/21/07, ranju radha <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > lies like truth are lying in front of us > > > no need for anyone to come up and prove > > > "antha kalam poyennu" muttathu varki pande paranju > > > kazhinju.... (courtsy:AP) > > > though, still expect more.... > > > > > > > > > On 10/21/07, salimtk < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > where r dileep's big lies? v, dileep's FANS, are waiting > > > > for gopinath to come up with that lies. if it is so easy to be proved, > > > > why > > > > delayed this much :) > > > > > > > > On 10/18/07, haritha gopi <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > dear friends > > > > > > > > > > happened to see the discussions based on the book nalini jameela. > > > > > i am gopinath who has written that book first time. later i heard > > > > > that some > > > > > people made some modifications on it. reading the letters of dilip > > > > > raj, i > > > > > felt sympothy on him. the entire things he says about the book and > > > > > his role > > > > > on it are lies which i can prove easily. all discussions are based on > > > > > these > > > > > lies. now i remember basheer's charactor ettukali mammunju. > > > > > > > > > > thanku > > > > > i gopinath > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
