--- On Thu, 31/12/09, Shiva Shankar <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Shiva Shankar <[email protected]> > Subject: Ideology is: Who will clean your toilet? Whom you are allowed to > touch? Slavoj Zizek (fwd) > To: > Date: Thursday, 31 December, 2009, 10:35 AM > > The Zizek tour of India - New Delhi, Hyderabad and Kochi. > > http://www.timeoutdelhi.net/books/book_feature_details.asp?code=81http://na > vayana.org/?p=850 > > What sorts of intellectual movements in India are you > curious about? > > I am now jumping between two books, a collection of > speeches by Dr Ambedkar, and one of the founding texts of > ideology of all times, the laws of Manu. Ideology is > precisely these daily rituals: how do you enter a house? Who > will clean your toilet? Whom you are allowed to touch? I am > also reading a book called Red Sun, about these Maoists - > the Naxalites. I am studying that because I did not know > they are so strong. And there, of course, as every country > does, you pay the price for modernisation. I think this is > the crucial problem. If they remain outside the public > social sphere, then India is approaching a latent permanent > civil war. All these phenomena fascinate me. > > For the Zizek India tour: http://navayana.org/?p=781 > > > -- > > It does not require much intelligence to realise that even > if the British depart from India, the landlords, the > mill-owners, the moneylenders will remain in India and > continue to bleed the people, and that even after > imperialism is gone, labour will have to fight these > interests just as much. —B.R. Ambedkar, in a speech in > 1938, in "Thus Spoke Ambedkar, Vol. 1: A Stake in the > Nation" (Navayana, 2010) p. 64. > > S. Anand, www.navayana.org > > Navayana Publishing 155, Second Floor (Near DDA Park) > Shahpur Jat New Delhi 110049 > > Landline: +91-11-26494795 Mobile: +91-9971433117 The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an 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.
