[GreenYouth] Re: The untouchable and her rise to power in India

2009-03-07 Thread ranju radha
The same plight that happened to Dravida parties may soom happen to BSP but within a lesser span of time. it s possible. BSP is a mainstream indian political party and functions within the institution of indian politics. any new democratic movement should also challenge the claims of mayavati,

[GreenYouth] Exploding Cherries _ Mhmd Hanif

2009-03-07 Thread damodar prasad
* http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20090316fname=Cover+Storysid=4 * *Exploding Cherries* *Where is the backlash of the Pakistani cricket fanatic* Imran Khan is one of the many mainstream politicians, commentators and socialites in Pakistan who seem to think that if they slip in a

[GreenYouth] Re: Exploding Cherries _ Mhmd Hanif

2009-03-07 Thread Afthab Ellath
The articles ends with the following..* It might be too early to tell who was behind these attacks, as old-fashioned journalists are fond of saying, but we can safely say that pictures of young men wearing sneakers, backpacks and brandishing AK-47s, and TV presenters demanding revenge, will be

[GreenYouth] Humanities conference in Thrissur

2009-03-07 Thread Luisa Steur
Fyi: A call for papers for a conference, 27 and 28 June 2009 in Thrissur: Call for Papers International Conference on Humanities in the 21st Century Rethinking Humanities in the Age of the Visual June 27 28, 2009 C PRACSIS, Thrissur, Kerala, India 680001 Keynote: Gayathri Chakrvorthy Spivak

[GreenYouth] Fw: Kerala NGOs Disown Shashi Tharoor on Coca Cola Issue

2009-03-07 Thread C.K. Vishwanath
--- On Sat, 7/3/09, Ravinder Singh wrote: From: Ravinder Singh Date: Saturday, 7 March, 2009, 2:46 PM Kerala NGOs Disown Shashi Tharoor on Coca Cola Issue   Dear Mr. S. Faizi,   There is no water shortage in Gods Own Country blessed with highest rainfall in the world spread

[GreenYouth] Re: The untouchable and her rise to power in India

2009-03-07 Thread venukm
The BSP leadership rejects this and maintains that the costs of political violence are usually paid for disproportionately by the poor. They point to the neighbouring state of Bihar, where the Naxalite insurgency has led to the formation of upper-caste citizen armies, with devastating results

[GreenYouth] Nellie massacre.....An Untold Shame

2009-03-07 Thread Rights Support Centre
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=Ne140309an_untold.asp --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To

[GreenYouth] Re: March-8-Interntional Women` Day

2009-03-07 Thread Maya
Did I make a notion of ' they dont understand' mood in the mail? ! When I read the earlier mail by ranju I thought my explanation for such programs is clear though not all may agree with it.But here it becomes as if accusing for being part of modern ways of perpetuating violence by sympatrhising

[GreenYouth] Indian development sector

2009-03-07 Thread Karthik Navayan
The Indian development sector (that is non government organizations) yearly budget is equivalent to one state budget, it is 3 crores! where they are spending and how many people got befitted from this? The development sector in India claiming that they are there for poorest of the poor, and

[GreenYouth] Re: March-8-Interntional Women` Day

2009-03-07 Thread venukm
Maya, I'm afraid you made this statement( though at a particular juncture and in an attempt to clarify your point that the majority of uneducated poor women are too preoccupied with saving themselves from the brutality within and outside their homes to be able to think of what gender and

[GreenYouth] one better than arnab/barkha

2009-03-07 Thread Bobby Kunhu
*Talking about humour - this came to me from a Pakistani * *JOKE OF THE DAY* Asif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Madhuri Dixit and Margaret Thatcher are traveling in a train. The train suddenly goes through a tunnel and it gets completely dark. Suddenly there is a kissing sound and then a slap! The

[GreenYouth] Re: Coca Cola/Plachimada: An open rejoinder to Mr Shashi Tharoor (fwd)

2009-03-07 Thread Bobby Kunhu
Dear C K I should have been writing this mail personally - but I think I need to do this *launda naach *in public Tharoor/s naivete notwithstanding- I strongly believe that Plachimada is the Sangh Parivar entry into Kearla I dare Ajay or Faizi to a public debate with me rather than Tharoor on

[GreenYouth] Re: Humanities conference in Thrissur

2009-03-07 Thread Bobby Kunhu
is not this fairly short notice for call for papers or because it is Gayathru Spivak as the keynote or thrissur as the venue - the call can happen offhand? 2009/3/7 Luisa Steur luisast...@yahoo.co.uk Fyi: A call for papers for a conference, 27 and 28 June 2009 in Thrissur: Call for

[GreenYouth] Fwd: [ഒരു കപ ്പ്‌ ചായ] New comment on ലിപ്‌സ്റ്റിക്കു ം മൊബൈലും.

2009-03-07 Thread Venugopalan K M
- K.M.Venugopalan http://www.blogger.com/profile/04074009924275249249 has left a new comment on the post ലിപ്‌സ്റ്റിക്കും മൊബൈലുംhttp://orukappuchaaya.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post.html?ext-ref=comm-sub-email: Fitting response! Though made in the context of WC's advertisement, it applies well

[GreenYouth] Re: March-8-Interntional Women` Day

2009-03-07 Thread ranju radha
any woman from any caste/ class/ race can understand the problems of other women from any caste/class/race i beg to differ here. on the contrary, a woman understands her subjective cultural/social locations better, gendered reality being conflated by caste/class/religion take for eg: the recetn

[GreenYouth] Re: Humanities conference in Thrissur

2009-03-07 Thread ranju radha
when gayatri comes CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK? On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Bobby Kunhu bobby.ku...@gmail.com wrote: is not this fairly short notice for call for papers or because it is Gayathru Spivak as the keynote or thrissur as the venue - the call can happen offhand? 2009/3/7

[GreenYouth] Re: Humanities conference in Thrissur

2009-03-07 Thread damodar prasad
*:-) *hahaha.. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, ranju radha ranjura...@gmail.com wrote: when gayatri comes CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK? On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Bobby Kunhu bobby.ku...@gmail.com wrote: is not this fairly short notice for call for papers or because it is Gayathru Spivak

[GreenYouth] Comrade Balaraman's Murderer

2009-03-07 Thread damodar prasad
Hi, Attaching KGS Poem that Neelan sir had referred to.It appeared in recent issue of S.Malayalam There is some font problem with the attached text. Reading KGS is always a delight. (And it provides deeper insights to our times) d.Prasad --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[GreenYouth] WHY LAWYERS REJECT SRI KRISHNA COMMISSION REPORT AS BIASED?

2009-03-07 Thread sarathi
WHY LAWYERS REJECT SRI KRISHNA COMMISSION AS BIASED? 1. The scope of the Commission was only to inquire into the incidents on 19.02.2009. But the Commission had, without locus standi, gone beyond the events that happened before that date. 2. Most of the observations of the Commission against

[GreenYouth] Re: Humanities conference in Thrissur

2009-03-07 Thread Fathima Naeema
'Will the Bourgeoisie listen' would be the right question. __ Fathima Naeema On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:19 AM, damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.comwrote: *:-) *hahaha.. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, ranju radha ranjura...@gmail.com wrote: when gayatri comes CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK?

[GreenYouth] Re: WHY LAWYERS REJECT SRI KRISHNA COMMISSION REPORT AS BIASED?

2009-03-07 Thread Bobby Kunhu
what a joke 2009/3/8 sarathi vpslawf...@gmail.com WHY LAWYERS REJECT SRI KRISHNA COMMISSION AS BIASED? 1. The scope of the Commission was only to inquire into the incidents on 19.02.2009. But the Commission had, without locus standi, gone beyond the events that happened before that date.

[GreenYouth] Re: March-8-Interntional Women` Day

2009-03-07 Thread venukm
This could be the kind of approach in transgressing the boundaries of identities through politics, without being trapped by binaries of mutual exclusivity. .. there s nothing astonishing in it and i m not taking a position tht all fights should be isolated; but instead of engaging in

[GreenYouth] Re: Humanities conference in Thrissur

2009-03-07 Thread S sanjeev
since all thrissurians are hard core intellectuals the question should be can gayatri spivak speak?:-) On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:19 AM, damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.com wrote: :-) hahaha.. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, ranju radha ranjura...@gmail.com wrote: when gayatri

[GreenYouth] Re: Humanities conference in Thrissur

2009-03-07 Thread Fathima Naeema
ha ha ha,, Very nice Sajeev. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, S sanjeev samva...@yahoo.com wrote: *since all thrissurians are hard core intellectuals the question should be can gayatri spivak speak?* *:-)* On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:19 AM, damodar prasad damodar.pra...@gmail.comwrote: