She writes very nicely, but always pretty much hyped up. And she has lately picked up the maoist brief.
She constructs a narrative, rather beutifully. First element, the Indian state needs the war to clear lands. Though there is a large disconnent between the two - clearing/acquiring land and Operation Green Hunt. More important, the nature of the (democratic) state which provides space for contests amongst various opposing interests regardless of the asymmetry obtaining. Second, there is a bio-diversity of resistance, the Maoists belong to that even if at one end of the spectrum, but then the most important element. That's also highly problematic. First, for the Maoist it's a procative war to capture state power, not a war of resistance. Two, the other elements don't fight to capture state power. Three, their relations with others. There is no cooperative relation at the sites of struggle. The Maoists suppress others mercilessly. Resort to physical annihilation as well. So,it's a nice fable, nice no doubt. But essentially beautifully crafted hyped up fable. Sukla On 15/09/2010, Venugopalan K M <[email protected]> wrote: > "..After Azad was killed, several media commentators tried to paper over the > crime by shamelessly inverting what he said, accusing him of calling the > Indian Constitution a piece of toilet paper. > If the government won’t respect the constitution, perhaps we should push for > an amendment to the preamble. “We, The People of India, having solemnly > resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic > Republic…” could be substituted with “We, the upper castes and classes of > India, having secretly resolved to constitute India into a Corporate, Hindu, > Satellite State"… > > "..In their concluding section they say: > The Memorandum of Understandings signed by the state governments with > industrial houses, including mining companies should be re-examined in a > public exercise, with gram sabhas at the centre of this enquiry.Here it is > then—not troublesome activists, not the Maoists, but a government report > calling for the mining MOUs to be re-examined. What does the government do > with this document? How does it respond? On April 24th 2010, at a formal > ceremony, the Prime Minster released the report. Brave of him, you’d think. > Except, this chapter wasn’t in it. It was dropped. > > Half a century ago, just a year before he was killed, Che Guevara wrote: > “When the oppressive forces maintain themselves in power against laws they > themselves established, peace must be considered already broken.” Indeed it > must. In 2009 Manmohan Singh said in Parliament “ If left-wing extremism > continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the > climate for investment would certainly be affected”. This was a furtive > declaration of war..".... > > "..Implicit in a lot of the debate around Maoists, is the old, patronizing, > tendency to cast “the masses”, the adivasi people in this case, in the role > of the dimwitted horde, completely controlled by a handful of wicked > “outsiders”. One university professor, a well-known Maoist baiter, accused > the leaders of the party of being parasites preying on poor adivasis. To > bolster his case he compared the lack of development in Dandakaranya to the > prosperity in Kerala. After suggesting that the non-adivasi leaders were all > cowards “hiding safely in the forest” he appealed to all adivasi Maoist > guerillas and village militia to surrender before a panel of middle-class > Gandhian activists (hand-picked by him). He called for the non-adivasi > leadership to be tried for war-crimes. Why non-adivasi Gandhians are > acceptable, but not non-adivasi Maoists, he did not say. There is something > very disturbing about this inability to credit ordinary people with being > capable of weighing the odds and making their own decisions..." > > http://www.countercurrents.org/roy130910.htm > -- > > > You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a > nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the > foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. > -AMBEDKAR > > > > http://venukm.blogspot.com > > http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur > > http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.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. > > -- Peace Is Doable -- 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.
