Re: [Marxism] Iran and anti-imperialism

2010-06-19 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And as a matter of fact ANSWER actually had solidarity protests *for the *Islamic

Re: [Marxism] The FBI knocked on my door

2010-06-12 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't see how that's possible since it's not his video, worked perfectly fine on

Re: [Marxism] IDF faked photos

2010-06-05 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The photographic evidence is of course absurd, but they aren't fake (though I chose

Re: [Marxism] New Labour

2010-05-10 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I'd like to hear Brad's (and I guess, Milliband and Panitch's) version of

Re: [Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on the British vote

2010-05-10 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well, here is the question that divides a lot of the British far-left: how do you

Re: [Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on the British vote

2010-05-09 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not

Re: [Marxism] My pick for best movie of 2010 and I have not even seen it!

2010-05-06 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And so the timeless battle between the ironic and the literal mind rages on... On

Re: [Marxism] On the British election - anything?

2010-04-20 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == They are encouraging votes, along with the rest of the British left, for Labour

Re: [Marxism] Christopher Hitchens -- An 'Expert' on George Orwell

2010-04-18 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I remember asking a teacher whether Old Major was Lenin or Marx in the 8th grade

[Marxism] The Anatomy of Teabagging

2010-04-15 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://theactivist.org/blog/the-anatomy-of-teabagging

Re: [Marxism] Has John Rees's crew been reading the Unrepentant Marxist?

2010-04-12 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My real bone of contention with the SWP isn't the substance of its politics, but

Re: [Marxism] Has John Rees's crew

2010-04-12 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If by the purity of our ideals you mean socialism and if by our actual impotence

Re: [Marxism] Has John Rees's crew been reading the Unrepentant Marxist?

2010-04-11 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not your most original contribution, but it fits quite well with their hide behind

[Marxism] my review of Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale

2010-04-09 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
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Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti

2010-03-30 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And in their view the Cuban system is a bastardization of the word socialism and

Re: [Marxism] A Fake Fight Over Fake Health Care Reform

2010-03-29 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A young British socialist's take on this very question:

Re: [Marxism] The awful truth about Social Democracy

2010-03-29 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Social democrats simply can't operate like they were able to during the 'golden

Re: [Marxism] How US far left went off rails on health care

2010-03-27 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Some thoughts on a way out of the current impasse (got reprinted by a few liberal

[Marxism] on the French Regional Elections

2010-03-17 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://theactivist.org/blog/on-the-french-regional-elections

Re: [Marxism] Has Hezbollah shifted left?

2010-03-11 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From* Mehdi Kia, cut and paste excuse the formatting:* There is no doubt that on

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

2010-03-06 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, it's the piece in question. Anderson's being described with Gramsci's couplet

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

2010-03-05 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: I'm actually just re-reading Considerations on Western Marxism now. I

Re: [Marxism] Perry Anderson idiocy on China

2010-03-05 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Instrumentalists? Engels? On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:58 PM, brad bauerly

[Marxism] Unconventional Wisdom: An Interview With Doug Henwood

2010-02-21 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood

Re: [Marxism] Facebook

2010-02-15 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There's high levels of narcissism and voyeurism involved with Facebook, but as far

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 804 (11/02/2010) now available at www.cpgb.org.uk

2010-02-11 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Weekly Worker 804 - Thursday February 11 2010 The latest edition of the Weekly

[Marxism] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life

2010-02-10 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://theactivist.org/blog/immanuel-kant-an-erotic-life I'll admit there's

Re: [Marxism] A hiccup from the Cruise Missile left

2009-11-26 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Can someone explain to me when these left-neoliberals became the Left? On Thu, Nov

Re: [Marxism] Come back Karl

2009-11-24 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The system collapsed, because of Western bankers and economically it couldn't have

Re: [Marxism] Long Live the 5th International!

2009-11-23 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The words that constantly come out of Chavez's mouth are reflective of a hollow

Re: [Marxism] Long Live the 5th International!

2009-11-22 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I never knew of his correspondence and support for Carlos The Jackal, who has

Re: [Marxism] Zizek in the Socialist Review (SWP-UK)

2009-11-20 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Fight Club (another masterpiece of the Hollywood left). Really... Fight Club a

Re: [Marxism] Zizek on the Berlin Wall

2009-11-10 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Zizek is entertaining and defends in his own way the idea of revolution and the continued existence of History in a way that makes him attractive. His politics are muddled, but when he's in town I go to listen to him speak for the anecdotes-- if not all the ideas. I think upper-middle class grad

Re: [Marxism] Gore Vidal in the Atlantic

2009-10-31 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
I think I posted this a while back. It shows what a vile, revolting prick he's become (?) in his old age. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:13 AM, David Thorstad bin...@gvtel.com wrote: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910u/gore-vidal YOU MUST clip

Re: [Marxism] review of two exhibits on John Brown

2009-10-29 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
The reviewer is quoting text from the Richmond exhibit. It's not explicitly clear that his is endorsing those views, just showing the contrast between how the two exhibits dealt with Brown. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Andrew Pollack acpolla...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [Marxism] John Molyneux on party democracy

2009-10-27 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Louis, I haven't read your article so I'm not sure if you mentioned the context that Molyneux's article is being written in. Molyneux is a strong voice in the SWP attacking the (in my opinion, wrongheaded) no-platform policy BNP policy. The few months before the SWP conference (now) are

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

2009-10-18 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
I would be wary of such a solution though Louis. France in 1940 is a good example of how fast a terribly oppressive people can transformed into an oppressed group in a flash. Demographically it's also a different game than in Algeria and South Africa and I think it does matter--- in terms of how

Re: [Marxism] Shlomo Sand reinvents the Jewish people

2009-10-17 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
The project to found Israel as a settler state was and still is “a crime”, said comrade Conrad. But that crime has resulted in the coming into being of an Israeli Jewish, or Hebrew, nation and a working class solution must recognise this reality. While comrade Conrad could envisage the necessity

Re: [Marxism] Statement against Government of India ’s planned military offensive in adivasi-popula ted regions

2009-10-13 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
At the end of the day, Louis, Americans feeling the pain at the pump don't complain much about cable news cliches. Not to get emotionally charged or anything. Pull back the curtain. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: At the end

Re: [Marxism] Anti-Roma racism fuels growth of neofascist party in Hungary

2009-10-11 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Far too often is it forgotten that more than a quarter million Roma died out of a population of 1 million during the Holocaust. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-hungary-right11-2009oct11,0,1698369.story In Hungary,

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 788 (08/10/2009)

2009-10-08 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Weekly Worker 788 - Thursday October 8 2009 The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/788 In this week's issue: VICTORY TO THE POSTAL WORKERS! An overwhelming vote for action is expected. Jim Moody gives the background LETTERS

Re: [Marxism] John Holloway speaking in London this month.

2009-10-04 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
I freed janitor's closet in the hallway outside my dormroom as an autonomous space. I also broke dress code at work **twice** last week. Consider the dictatorship of capital over comrades. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a

[Marxism] [The Activist] N.W.A.’s Se cond Album, Track Two

2009-10-03 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
http://theactivist.org/blog/n-w-a-s-second-album-track-two YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

Re: [Marxism] VIDEO: G20 protester snatched by men in military fatiques

2009-09-25 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
I call bullshit, but I reserve the right to be wrong. On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Pat Costello pt_coste...@yahoo.com wrote: like something out of a Matt Damon movie. they throw him in an unmarked car and roar off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8CNa_viKg0feature=player_embedded

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 786 – Thursday Septemb er 24 2009

2009-09-24 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
*Weekly Worker 786 – Thursday September 24 2009* The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/786 In this week’s issue: SEX AND THE HUMAN REVOLUTION Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group looks at the transition from ape to human

[Marxism] A few anecdotes about class society

2009-09-23 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
There is this ridiculous car alarm keeping me up, so I figured I would spend the last 30 minutes showing some of my friends and the other assorted 60-70 people a day that read my blog that class society does exist. I think only like 2-3 leftists read my blog, so this is my audience. I'm not sure

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

2009-09-20 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/783/oskarlafontaine.php Oskar Lafontaine: ‘We want to govern’ The results for the German left party Die Linke in the August 30 regional elections are impressive, particularly the 21.3% achieved in the federal state of Saarland. But is this the beginning of the end for

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

2009-09-20 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
What about the Antikapitalistische Linke and the other opposition groups. I may be wrong, but I heard they form a fairly sizeable minority within the party. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to:

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

2009-09-19 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
There is a militant minority in Die Linke that wants to build an oppositional movement and not be mere left-social democrats. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set

Re: [Marxism] Germany's Die Linke shows the way for the left

2009-09-19 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Not only was the content of Richard's post dripping with sarcasm he even put asterisks for extra emphasis. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Mark Lause markala...@gmail.com wrote: The point is the absurdity of the notion that the German working class has repudiated bourgeois politics ML

[Marxism] Weekly Worker 785 (17/09/09) now available at cpgb.org.uk

2009-09-17 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Weekly Worker 785 - Thursday September 17 2009 The latest edition of the Weekly Worker is now available on the CPGB website at www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/785 In this week's issue: THE FOUR WAGERS OF LENIN IN 1917 The Bolshevik decision to make revolution was based on four key predictions, or

Re: [Marxism] Good books on 'transition from fordism to postfordism' debate?

2009-09-13 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
*·* *Moishe Postone, History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism*http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/%7Eplatypus1917/postonemoishe_historyhelplessness.pdf * (2006) * http://platypus1917.home.comcast.net/~platypus1917/postonemoishe_historyhelplessness.pdf

Re: [Marxism] India: An Update from Lalgarh

2009-09-12 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Anyone who has been to West Bengal or anywhere in the Red Corridor would know that there is little support for the Maoists among the Indian working class. I can't testify to the level of support that they have with peasants and among groups suffering from the fractious and uneven growth that

Re: [Marxism] Query regarding suspicious activity on my blog

2009-09-11 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
On my way out sorry for the brevity, but it might be simply a bot. Send me an email with the IP and I'll give it a lookup for you. Politicus E. wrote: Dear comrades: I have a question that hopefully those comrades who are more internet savvy than I might answer. I recently posted a blog

Re: [Marxism] marxist biographies

2009-09-10 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Isaac Deutscher, Maurice Isserman On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: Cliff Conner is a Trotskyist who has specialized in writing biographies: 1. Jean Paul Marat: Scientist and Revolutionary 2. Colonel Despard: The Life And Times Of An Anglo-irish Rebel

[Marxism] Lars Lih on Lenin, Kautsky, and 1914

2009-09-10 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/784/leninkautsky.php also recommended is his first article from last week: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/783/index.php YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to:

[Marxism] Worker in a Worker's State by Miklos Haraszti

2009-09-09 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Anyone read it? Thoughts? YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Marxism] American CP leader still solidly behind Obama

2009-09-09 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
It's not like the Democrats have benefited much from their advocacy. They have some convoluted theory that justifies their support for this President, which has included the claim that Obama is perhaps the most pro-labor President in U.S. history, in some manifestos that Webb has penned.

Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

2009-09-08 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Many Marxist thinkers don't deal with dialectics, namely Gramsci with his philosophy of Praxis and Althusser's writings on contradictions in *For Marx *. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to:

Re: [Marxism] Marx/Hegel

2009-09-08 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
I don't see how I could misrepresent since I didn't read, much less reply to your post. But since I befuddled you isn't /materialisme aleatoire/ a fundamental rejection of dialectical materialism? Wasn't a common theme of Althusser's works the attempt to rid Marxism of the idealism that

Re: [Marxism] What to do?

2009-09-08 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_a_New_Workers'_Party where that project was at in 2004/2005 Mark Lause wrote: What is the embryo of a campaign? Is there a Bullshit Brain Trust somewhere making up these new terms? Because, if there is, I think I'd like to work there. I can

Re: [Marxism] Good critique of Walter Benn Michaels's NLR article

2009-09-07 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
This is probably a very valid point. There should no question that the immigrant rights movements and organizing among other marginalized groups should be a primary focus for Marxists right now. I despise when people dismiss the White working class as hopelessly reactionary, but there is no

Re: [Marxism] What to do? [Early morn Labor Day thoughts]

2009-09-07 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
I honestly don't think that our energies should be put toward electoral efforts by third parties. But there is no doubt that in the long-term a party of the working class is an absolutely necessity. Now I'm largely paraphrasing Larhs Lih and Mike Macnair, but such a party would need to be both a

Re: [Marxism] What to do? [Early morn Labor Day thoughts]

2009-09-07 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
The same could be said of the Greens, except that primary campaign would be irrelevant. But what is the Democratic Party? Certainly it's largely neoliberal, bourgeois to say the least-- perhaps the world's second most enthusiastic major capitalist party. But is there not open primaries? Can a

Re: [Marxism] The Boston Globe on radical films

2009-09-05 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) 1 Fist Not a radical movie? That’s the point. When Al Pacino’s bank robber gets the crowds on his side by shouting “Attica! Attica!’’ he’s proving both how everything was political by the mid-1970s and how genuine radicalism had become co-opted by radical chic. In its

Re: [Marxism] U.S. Suspends $30 Million To Honduras

2009-09-04 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Actually I'm sorry I linked to yesterday's article. Here is today's news http://www.cepr.net/index.php/press-releases/press-releases/imf-may-withold-aid-honduras/ On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunk...@gmail.comwrote: Reports right now make it seem likely that the IMF

[Marxism] nostalgia for a gentler politics

2009-08-30 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
My article contains references to hookers, an ad hominem against a Baltimore Sun writer and various other degrees of awesomeness that made it unsuitable for publication anywhere else. http://theactivist.org/blog/nostalgia-for-a-gentler-politics ~ Bhaskar

Re: [Marxism] Sour -- but grounded -- thoughts on the Kennedys

2009-08-27 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
ML wrote: That complete idiot, Chris Matthews was saying the other day that the Kennedy brothers made the civil rights movement. Of course, lots of these elitist pundits, idolators of officeholders, etc. think that, but only a prize-winning first class goof to say something so absolutely stupid

Re: [Marxism] to read?

2009-08-25 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Because the bourgeosie has granted the masses Google. http://www.google.com/search?client=operarls=enq=David+Harvey+capitalsourceid=operaie=utf-8oe=utf-8 http://davidharvey.org/ On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Jeffrey Thomas Piercy mqd...@mqduck.netwrote: Ralph Johansen wrote: David Harvey,

Re: [Marxism] Words (Cuban economy)

2009-08-22 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
When has autarkic state capitalism ever been a formula to *solve*underdevelopment? On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, sobuadha...@hushmail.com wrote: Tom Cod wrote: Hey, how much heavy industry is there in Cuba. Don't they still rely on their traditional natural resource: sugar? The answer

Re: [Marxism] Words (Cuban economy)

2009-08-22 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
If Cuba pursued an industrial development plan it would have ended up looking more like Albania than Japan. Socialism in one country is impossible, I don't see anything wrong with Cuba's general economic policy. (and actually I'm a fan of the term bureaucratic collectivist) On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at

Re: [Marxism] District 9

2009-08-18 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
The Bourne Supremacy drove me insane with it, but it didn't too bother me during District 9. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Louis Proyect l...@panix.com wrote: gregoryabut...@aol.com wrote: Apparently, I saw a different District 9 than Prarie Miller and Armond White did! After seeing

Re: [Marxism] District 9

2009-08-17 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
As an allegory to apartheid the film for me was a complete failure.But compared to other mainstream films, it was a rather entertaining sci-fi movie. Les-- that was an unusual point to walk out on a film. I didn't see the overt Nazi comparison, but even if I did I still don't quite understand

Re: [Marxism] HItchens and Robert Service on Trotsky

2009-08-11 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
Hitchens (before he became a jackass) once wrote a marvelous article on Trotsky.. I'll have to find the link. YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

Re: [Marxism] video of open class warfare in S.Korea

2009-08-06 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
No commentary, not much sound either. Thanks for the link. (I don't have any audio on the library computer I'm using, so excuse my ignorance as to the value of the commentary contained in the above link.) The very best, Max Clark YOU MUST

Re: [Marxism] Red Army and rape

2009-08-05 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
And I suppose if hundreds of thousands of Afghan women were to be raped by US soldiers you would mention 9/11? German civilians who were victimized should be acknowledged as victims, that was probably the reason why Louis posted those excerpts. YOU

[Marxism] After 60 yrs of Independence, untouchability alive and kicking in India

2009-08-03 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/After-60-yrs-of-Independence-untouchability-alive-and-kicking-in-India/articleshow/4850136.cms YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to:

Re: [Marxism] Venezuela: Class struggle heats up o ver battle for workers’ control

2009-08-01 Thread Bhaskar Sunkara
While we are on the topic I would like to highly recommend this article: http://thecommune.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-revolution-delayed-10-years-of-hugo-chavezs-rule/ It's by some anarchist comrades, but that doesn't mean their points can be lightly dismissed (they're Venezuelan). ~ Bhaskar