This reads like Janasakthi or Samakaleena Malayalam article. There is no problem if this commentary had appeared in the weeklies above menitoned bcoz both of thm hve an editorial position on the factional politics within CPM. But definitely there is an issue when EPW publishes such commentaries. This commentary is blantantly factional in approach. We access or read EPW for articles and commentaries which are analytically rigourous, conceptually in-depth, empirically dense and for affinity for EPW and Indian journals like the Seminar is basically bcoz of this reason.
One can ask, what about writings of Asok Mitra, Prabath Patnaik or Aditya Nigam that regularly appear in EPW on issues concerning Left and CPM in particular. In my reading, I have never found their thinking and writing driven by any factional positions. And writers like Asok Mitra (AM) have been writing in EPW for long. More over, their articles do have conceptual in-sights and are also informed by a host of issues plauging Left and CPM in the context of globalization or perhaps in these times of transition politics. While reading this commentary, one can only infer just one thing: That is there is a scope for an English Janaskathi as perhaps there are readers for similar stuff at a National level. @Anil: I think while forwarding materials from (PDF) EPW and Seminar, one can be little bit "thrifty" bcoz unlike newspapers, weeklies and magazines, these journals I guess, run on subscriptions and donations not on ad. revenue. I too have sent PDF files from these magazines. But I have stopped it. It is best if we only refer to the article. Those interested can either get a print copy (only Rs.35/-) or subscribe online. If we want such journals to survive and be sustainable, this is what we can do... On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Anil Tharayath <[email protected]>wrote: > > > -- > "Sometimes — quite often — the same people who are capable of a radical > questioning of, say, economic neo-liberalism or the role of the state, are > deeply conservative socially — about women, marriage, sexuality, our > so-called 'family values' — sometimes they're so doctrinaire that you don't > know where the establishment stops and the resistance begins. For example, > how many Gandhian/Maoist/ Marxist Brahmins or upper caste Hindus would be > happy if their children married Dalits or Muslims, or declared themselves to > be gay? Quite often, the people whose side you're on, politically, have > absolutely no place for a person like you in their social, cultural or > religious imagination.That's a knotty problem politically radical people can > come at you with the most breathtakingly conservative social views and make > nonsense of the way in which you have ordered your world and your way of > thinking about it and you have to find a way of accommodating these > contradictions within your worldview." > -Arundhati Roy > > ANIL > > Anil Tharayath Varghese > New Delhi-110058 > INDIA > Mobile - 09971170738 > email - [email protected] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
