--- On Thu, 7/3/08, CK VISHWANATH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > --- On Wed, 2/7/08, Joe MS
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> > On Text book controversey
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> >>� Dear vishwanath
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> >>How comrade joseph is living?
> >>I write this �euology� because he and people
> like him remain� unsung .
> >> Please let your friend circle� know abou this
> man steeled by revolt..
> >>I think it is opportune to have alook at the life
> and times of comrade
> >> Jospeh, who also happened to be my father in law.
> When the media and
> >> congress mafiosie is projecting� intercaste
> marriage as a sin, here is the
> >> story of a �renasiaance� man , which is in a
> way the history of rationalsim
> >> and englithenment stream of of kerala itslef..
> Comrade jospeh ,born in 1937,
> >> to a very poor Roman catholic family in
> Muvattupuzha , who were dependent
> >> literally on church , for everything. His
> studiousness as a student ,
> >> brought him in touch with rationalism and
> communsim, in the red 50�s,
> >> despite his intial and natural forays in to the
> theistic mindset. The
> >> renaissance nature inculcated in him a fanatic
> urge for reading and
> >> scholarship . Literal poverty(not the romaticised
> nostaligic versions!) of
> >> concrete lack of food for days made made him a
> part time child labour as� a
> >> tailor� in child hood, even though he manged to
> study up to 10 th standard.
> >> The
> >> undivided left, with what ever revolutionalry
> spac of its own kind,�
> >> lured him. That was the birth of an an unsung
> orgnaic intellectual from the
> >> proletraiat , which made me realise that�
> ,after all Gramschi was not
> >> lying.� A tenh standard man, he� readslike a
> maniac.A wonderful scholar in
> >> malayalm language , he� with equal ease fiddle
> with philosophy of� Hegel
> >> or a Marx in English. His forays into Marxist
> actions in1950s and early 60s
> >> landed him in trouble� and escaped from the
> state machinary narrowly. The
> >> militancey costed him his job as a government
> gramsevak.
> >>In Rajakkad , during his existence as a taylor, he
> liked comrade shantha ,
> >> from ezhava community, another born militant
> proletariat from basic class.
> >> She worked as� employee in a tea estate and
> tailor� . They wed in the
> >> party office (red garland), amidst support of the
> comrades and some
> >> suspicious of such an action. Their struggle ,
> which made life a struggle
> >> continued. All� hell broke lose. Especially the
> catholic orthodoxy even
> >> sent goons to kill this lamp who has gone wayw
> ard. Many violent attmepts
> >> were made by the church to seperate this couple.
> Their kids where admitted
> >> to school without caste and religon , with lot of
> fight , and backing of
> >> rationalist movment. Unlike the economic
> reductionist Marxist, comrade
> >> jospeh, before even� Gramschi became
> fashionable, was aware of the
> >> attention to be devoted to cututral sphere. Thus
> he two timed as a
> >> rationalist and a Marxist, to which the CPM was
> not very cooperative. .
> >> Being a militant and� a
> >> sincere comrade, he fought relentlessly against
> corruption which made
> >> punishment transfer, away of his life . Poverty
> never left them. His work as
> >> a� government official in educating tribals�
> in Kasargod is phenomenal (
> >> all this were well before the anti modernist ngo
> era).� Indulgence in
> >> philanthropism saw to it that he remained poor
> through out .
> >>His wife bear the brunt of bringing up the kids and
> remained active as a
> >> militant cadre of cpm till 80�s risking life
> many a time. (she was
> >> underground while carrying, as part of trade union
> struggle).In the 80�s
> >> they bore the sight of their first son, who was a
> militant SFI leader ,
> >> stabbed by RSS goons., eventhough he survived the
> attack.
> >>By then comrade jospeh� became� aware of the
> lacunaes of parliamentary
> >> mainstream left .The party bosses could not bear
> the intellectual curiosity
> >> of an organic intellectual� like comrade
> jospeh. He gradually� gravitated
> >> to SUCI and remain a state level office bearer of
> the rationlist
> >> group,despite failing health(Even now some times
> he go for pasting poster) .
> >> I wrote this piece to show that there are many
> generations who militantly
> >> lived supporting� intercaste marriages.Much
> before the present crisis
> >> snowballed, such people have taken risk . with
> regards joe
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> >> >--- On Mon, 30/6/08, Joe MS wrote:
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> >> >ON TEXT BOOK CONTROVERSEY
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> >> >Dear vishwanath,
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> >> >The pseudo parliamentary left would have��
> introduced a text book
> >> >amidst the dpep hoax. A page happened to have
> a progressive chapter on
> >> >inter caste marriage and the right of their
> kid to get admitted in
> >> >schools without any religion in application
> form. The Kerala Catholic
> >> >feudal and Muslim fanatics unleashed an
> unparalleled militant struggle
> >> >against this imposition of atheistic
> 'sin' with congress�� which is
> >> >eyeing on next election. The left and MA baby
> , caught unawares, is
> >> >posing as staunch materialist and
> progressives, to regain their lost
> >> >image after chengara and Nadigram.(I hope it
> had been true!) But the
> >> >scape goats are people like us who opted for
> interreligiouss marriage
> >> >by breaking the feudal nauseating Christianity
> and endogamy, to usher
> >> >in some kind of progress in the society. We
> will be whipped from all
> >> >corners.( the fact that even a capitalistic
> constitution provides the
> >> >basic freedom to live with or with out
> religion for any reason
> >> >whatsoever have been forgotten in the current
> discourse). 'Madhyamam'
> >> >school of thought is doing research�� on
> postmodernism( for
> >> >Kunhalikutty' s?) to attribute sinister
> motive to the book which,
> >> >according to them,�� is�� aimed at
> destroying�� caste based
> >> >reservation as such, by the brahmanical
> left.�� And these feudal
> >> >Muslim fanatical mullahs are posing as
> champion of dalits, forgetting
> >> >the rationalist atheistic struggles of
> sahodaran ayyappan and periyar
> >> >(which resulted in reservation, and which also
> naturally as a result of
> >> >their�� subscribtion to rationalism ,
> provides space for life of a
> >> >non religious identity)and making dangerous
> intervention for
> >> >substantiating the validity of clashes of
> civilization, where�� in a
> >> >postmodern clime any kind of contradictions
> are to be fought within the
> >> >ambit of religious identity. The left with a
> past history of
> >> >probrahminical communal appeasement sin with
> it share of (caste tails
> >> >of battacharayas and bhadralok?), by fluke has
> been made messiahs of
> >> >the progeny of rationalist school of Indian
> social movement. ( Remember
> >> >EMs wrote books to crucify the
> 'fallacy' of rationalism to malign the
> >> >Edamarukus and the pavanans, in the era of
> blind of economic
> >> >reductionsim and culture superstructure
> dichotomy.On the other hand,
> >> >lenin himself has shown green signals for the
> existence and
> >> >significance of buorgeois rationalism) .
> ).with regards joe
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> >> >On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 CK Vishwanath wrote :
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