i apologize unconditionally to dileep & venugopalan for my wrong
interfererence.
On 2/22/08, Venugopalan K M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear Dileep,
> Thanks for your kind response to my post to Salim and later to the Green
> Youth list.
> I wish to clarify my point related to your latest poser here:
> There was indeed a line of thinking at some stage,according to which we
> imagined that Chithralekha with her auto procured thanks to the people's
> initiative from all over the State and outside would move to a a less
> hostile neighborhood (but not outside Payyanur or too far away from her
> present home). I didn't use the expression "CPM hegemony"; I could not have
> really appreciated invoking such an idea in this context. I agree with you
> that this could have no meaning , as we find CPM hegemony almost everywhere
> in Kerala . Therefore, it would be a terribly bad idea to try fleeing it,
> rather than to encounter it. Nevertheless, encountering it could and ought
> to be attempted non-antagonistically, esp. when it comes to big or small
> clashes originating in the first place from petty egos associated with the
> power structures locally in command. For example , even as we wish to
> challenge the unwritten codes of caste & gender and their celebration by
> the CPM cadres and others, the last thing we would like to engage in, is
> violent conflict with CPM die-hards,which could be fueled or not fueled by
> smarter people in the CPM leadership, again, depending on several variants!
> *
>
> p.s:-{It is against this background of near disregard toward
> understanding these nuanced structures of power involving gender, caste
> (and also "the party") by many of the more prominent players in the field
> of social activism that I cannot help finding something extremely refreshing
> and valuable in the paper by Jenny and Christy}. *
>
>
>
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