On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Sainath (to me, at least) is a case of someone who is so blinded by his
chosen set of blinkers that he has no perspective at all on anything.
Some background on the feelings of at least some of the members of this
list can
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Sainath (to me, at least) is a case of someone who is so blinded by his
chosen set of blinkers that he has no perspective at all on anything.
Some background on the feelings of at least some of the members of this
list can
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
The year 1857 holds special importance for all Indians, the year India
fought back, the year when 2000 Indians were killed for every British
officer killed,
Just to be clear, Cheeni, you are comparing number of
Deepak Shenoy [22/05/12 07:45 +0530]:
ass. I would still say Roy and Sainath are just shrill, and just too
blinkered. They also often ignore (or maliciously omit?) statistics
that work against their theories, which is just as bad as the
government.
suppresio veri
suggestio falsi
take your
On 18/05/12 18-May-2012;3:56 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
What a generous dharma adi [0] (charity beating) Ms. Roy is getting
:) No comments about Sainath then?
Well, since you asked...
Sainath (to me, at least) is a case of someone who is so blinded by his
chosen set of blinkers that he has
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com wrote:
What to me seemed like a sensible response to Roy's essay.
What a generous dharma adi [0] (charity beating) Ms. Roy is getting
:) No comments
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Abhishek Hazra abhishek.ha...@gmail.comwrote:
:) No comments about Sainath then
in this context, what did you think of Katherine Boo's book ?
I have not read it myself but added it to my To Read list after seeing the
NYT flogging it extensively. How does it
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On 18/05/12 18-May-2012;10:32 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Saw that one, fantastic article.
http://www.firstpost.com/living/reading-arundhati-roy-the-high-price-of-
toxic-rage-251377.html
What to me seemed
On 18/05/12 18-May-2012;9:00 PM, Thaths wrote:
And while we are on the topic, is there any book that people liked about
poverty and the marginalized in contemporary India? I'm trying to figure
out if the dislike is to the author or the subject.
One that comes to mind is this one [1], about
On Friday 18 May 2012 9:00:19 pm Thaths wrote:
And while we are on the topic, is there any book that people liked about
poverty and the marginalized in contemporary India?
Been a while since I read it but I recall enjoying reading it - a book about
women in India - May You be the Mother of a
That the arguments are *important*, to start with,
and then that they are *right*?
Mm. There's so much of debate over the person that the issue gets
lost. And it isn't just the case for Arundhati Roy's work. There are
so many others, where the dissection of where the person comes from,
their
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
I would recommend reading this along with this 40 minute interview with
Sainath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5xNyomuf6Y
http://dawn.com/2012/03/18/capitalism-a-ghost-story-2/
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Arundhati
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:04 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
meandering verbiage i found it hard to read beyond paragraph 10. she
should commit suicide right now.
I actually started reading it then got lost. Does she always write like
this?
Venkat
I actually started reading it then got lost. Does she always write like this?
Yes, she does. Her writing defies parody because really, who could possibly
out-do her own stock of entitled, delusional, condescending, endlessly
recycled, logic-defying, inane rhetoric? The State is evil! Check.
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I actually started reading it then got lost. Does she always write like this?
Yes, she does. Her writing defies parody because really, who could possibly
out-do her own stock of entitled, delusional, condescending
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I actually started reading it then got lost. Does she always write like
this?
Yes, she does. Her writing defies parody
I just now managed to read the whole thing -- apart from not making
much sense it makes some incomprehensible assertions like this
one:
A similar coup was carried out in the anti-apartheid struggle in South
Africa. In 1978 the Rockefeller Foundation organized a Study
Commission on US Policy
On Wednesday 16 May 2012 at 11:25 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
I would recommend reading this along with this 40 minute interview with
Sainath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5xNyomuf6Y
http://dawn.com/2012/03/18/capitalism-a-ghost-story-2/
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Arundhati Roy |
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On Wednesday 16 May 2012 at 11:25 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
I would recommend reading this along
http://www.firstpost.com/living/reading-arundhati-roy-the-high-price-of-toxic-rage-251377.html
What to me seemed like a sensible response to Roy's essay.
Sruthi
Saw that one, fantastic article.
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On 18/05/12 18-May-2012;10:32 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Saw that one, fantastic article.
http://www.firstpost.com/living/reading-arundhati-roy-the-high-price-of-
toxic-rage-251377.html
What to me seemed like a sensible response to Roy's essay.
Sruthi
I'm not sure I agree, with
On May 17, 2012 11:28 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
The report warned of
the growing influence of the Soviet Union on the ANC and said that US
strategic and corporate interests (i.e., access to South Africa’s
minerals) would be best served if there were genuine sharing of
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