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Dear All, Feature "I am not for Ashis Nandy’s arrest, I want to expose him" <http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=828&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18> *Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes* *[Ravi Chandran, of the video news journal 'Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=188&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18>', interviewed Dr K. Satyanarayana, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U) on Prof. Ashis Nandy's recent comments On Dalit Bahujans at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Here's the second and final part of the transcript of the interview.]* *Continued from here<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=829&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18> .* *K. Satyanarayana:* No, one thing is the responses of the Dalits, publicly, I think, in the TV shows, you have 2-3 Dalit scholars (who) commented on this controversy. But also there are public statements by Dalit politicians and also (by the) National SC Commission Chairperson. If you go into the details, Chandra Bhan Prasad, on NDTV, clearly said there is no evidence to make this observation that the SC, ST, OBCs are most corrupt. He clearly said it is vulgar and undignified and it is not based on any facts. That is enough for any sensible pro-Dalit intellectual to withdraw their statement. On that very moment, Nandy could have responded by saying that. (I am) *sorry Chandra Bhan, I want to apologize*. On the very show. But he didn't do this. But that did not happen, he did not apologize. Then in terms of the other people, Mayawati and Paswan responded quickly. And some Dalit activists from Rajasthan -- they also responded, and they said they are going to file a case, and these (comments) are offensive and objectionable comments and we will go to the police station. And they filed an F.I.R. {youtube}yI9CxJAT3ZE{/youtube} Now this whole discussion is around this issue: basically saying that it is undemocratic, it is wrong to go to the police, to file the F.I.R. I am really surprised and I could not understand what is wrong with this. In fact, people that I respect, people like Lawrence Liang, people who have been writing on law and other issues -- *they take objection to street protest? They take objection to going to the police station?* Read More<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=828&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18> "Is Ashis Nandy a sacred cow?"<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=830&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18> *Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes* *[Ravi Chandran, of the video news journal 'Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=188&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18>', interviewed Dr K. Satyanarayana, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University (EFL-U) on Prof. Ashis Nandy's recent comments On Dalit Bahujans at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Here's a part of the transcript of the interview.]* *Dalit Camera*: How do you see Ashis Nandy's comments, at the Jaipur Literary Festival, against SCs, STs and OBCs and the whole debate happening around it across the country? *K. Satyanarayana*: Ravi, first, I'd like to thank Dalit Camera for giving me this space, because we don't have NDTV or CNN IBN or the whole newspaper world. We have this little space because of Dalit Camera so I thank you very much for giving me this space, to express some of my views on this controversy. First of all, I'm really upset at the way this whole discussion is taking place. I am not upset so much about Ashis Nandy's comments, but I am upset at the way that Dalits as a community, including myself, are implicated in this discussion. First, as corrupt people, then as people who are intolerant, then as people who have no sense of humour; (we are implicated) in innumerable ways, as this discussion is showing. In this campaign to defend Nandy, they're really damaging the image of the community. So I am really shocked at this, I am really upset at this. I've read, seen today's *Hindu* editorial and I am really shocked at the way they have been writing about it. To give you some details, one of Prof. Nandy's friends said that SC, ST, OBCs are treated as sacred cows in this country. I am asking now: *is Nandy a sacred cow?* {youtube}yI9CxJAT3ZE{/youtube} Dalits have been criticized, Dalits have been stereotyped and Dalits are at the receiving end of many things. So they have not been sacred cows. They have not even been able to reply in a strong manner to this whole campaign. We don't have many people to write, you don't have the media to voice their concerns. So they are not sacred cows, they have never been sacred cows. *But is Nandy a sacred cow? This is what I am asking. Is he above criticism? Are our intellectuals above any criticism? Is Nandy infallible?* Read More<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=830&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18> The Emperor Has No Clothes<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=826&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18> *Dr. N. Sukumar* Ashis Nandy's observations at the Jaipur Literary Festival have created a furore. Inadvertently, it has exposed the shallow foundations of our academic elite. Suddenly, the brahmanical lobby is forced to go on the defensive and is tying itself up in knots providing all kinds of explanations. The Ashis Nandy fan club has started online petitions over the issue of freedom of speech. For long, Nandy has been the poster boy of the liberal intelligentsia, pontificating about everything under the sun. He is supposedly a champion of the rights of the marginalized. "*Over the years Ashis Nandy has affirmed the rights of marginalized groups and communities to assert and express themselves in their unique ways*" (*Online petition to the Govt of India, change.org*<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=827&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18>). Even if Nandy is recognised to be a public intellectual by his academic coterie, nothing justifies his intellectual arrogance. [image: sanatan academics] One fine day, the mask slips and he is revealed to be an ordinary prejudiced casteist being, with feet of clay. The same society castigates Raj Thackeray or Akbaruddin Owaisi for hate speech. Obviously, they lack the finesse of post-modern linguistic gymnastics. One wonders, was it a Freudian slip? Nandy was unconsciously articulating a deep rooted fear prevalent among the academic elite. They are unable to persecute any more Eklavyas and that being the case, who will talk about Arjuna's 'merit'? So, the modus operandi is to tar the entire SC/ST/OBC community as thieves, untrustworthy, burglars etc. Read More<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=826&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18> Thought Casting corruption<http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_acymailing&no_html=1&ctrl=url&urlid=831&mailid=57&subid=2323&Itemid=18> *Mallepalli Lakshmaiah* [image: mallepalli lakshmaiah]There is nothing new in the social scientist, Ashis Nandy's formulation that "most of the corrupt" people in India "come from the OBCs (Other Backward Classes) and the Scheduled Castes (SC), and now increasingly Scheduled Tribes (ST)". Those defending Nandy as an original thinker and so-called public intellectual may be reminded of a similar statement made by another learned professor, while delivering a guest lecture at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie in 1990, during the height of the anti-Mandal Commission agitation. At that time, this Delhi University professor told the 300-odd probationers that "all SC and ST officers who got in through reservation in the civil services were corrupt". Moreover, "since the reserved category officers came from poor economic backgrounds, they couldn't resist the temptation of money". *Inglorious traditions* As for Nandy, what can one say about somebody who, in the past, even projected 'Sati' as an act of courage reaffirming efflorescent Indian traditions against the onslaught of modernity and a market-oriented political economy? 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