Leaving dilip to do his detective job, let me add something to the discussion.(I want to tell dilip that I am no CPI M activist and yet i can sense 'fundamentalism'. i dont know how "I" sense it. really a great talent indeed!!)
This is based on a TImes of India report i read months back (i dont have a copy. writing from memory. So all those dilip kinda mistakes might fall into this as well). It is like this. There are no students for Gandhian Studies and Gadhian scholars are worried. Their worry, as reported (NOTE THIS POINT AS IN CBI DIARY KURRIPPU... for those detective's kind attention), was not this, but that there were applications pouring in for studying the philosophy of Ambedkar. I still remember Dr. Aloney telling me (while in Baroda) that people wholeheartedly celebrate Ambedkar jayanthi and media find it difficult to digest. thus negative news stories planted etc etc. The point is ; the people have rejected Gandhi. but the caste Hindu 'cultural mass' wants to rejuvenate Gandhi through films, seminars, media stories. See how Gandhigiri has been promoted. Gandhi was a creation of colonial/savarna media. the legacy of the same continues.. Ambedkar could overcome all kinds of savarna media propaganda agaiinst him bz his image was constructed by the people--- Dalits. and not by media... that is why in Chengara we could see the photos of Ambedkar and Ayyankali; and not that of Gandhi and EMS. Intellectual and NGOs wil have problem with it. They will celebrate Gandhi and would try their level best to impose gandhi on social movements of the marginalised. I wonder, why cant those intellect with some kinda special SENSE got from kannur cpim gene, sense it. May there is something wrong in the sensing operation. Gandhian methodology shall be applied to rectify it, perhaps. As a fundamentalist anti-Gandhian I can't suggest any remedy. I can only say that detectives of all sorts(from Jamia shootout to Gandhi) require an intellectual refresher which no one else can suggest. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
