hi, Indrajit..no offence taken as didn't detect any insult just oversimplification;-) I wasn't saying that I espouse the idea of nation state being perpetuated thru history-simply that it is being used for that. also i can't believe that you think its an idea that has lost currency!!! just check history books in desh, US, UK, etc ad nauseum.
in a way it doesn't really matter - histories always have a lens whether its nationalism or religion(an RSS version that insists on the Aryan invasion theory!) or imperialism (eg Macaulay). I guess I just don't want to take history for granted. 2006/2/22, Indrajit Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Leave aside for a moment what is seen by specific social and economic groups > as the lunatic fringe elements described as Anarchists. Leave aside the > Marxian analysis. Without going into serious detail on a meeting- and > communication-heavy day at work, I put to you the case that the nation > states are willing themselves out of existence. Think WTO, EU, ASEAN, ad > nauseam ad infinitum. > > Who are we to interfere with this euthanasia? > > No shuriken, BTW, just puzzlement at a view being expressed which I thought > had died out of serious consideration in the first half of the previous > century, if not the second half of the one before. Nothing personal, > Radhika. > > Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indrajit Gupta wrote: [ on 10:15 AM 2/23/2006 ] > > >I am completely bewildered. Why would anyone want to keep alive the > >idea of the nation state? Are you serious? > > On the offchance that you're serious (shuriken?) - > > Leaving aside for the moment the issue of "Why would anyone want to > keep alive the idea of the nation state", it would seem to be > inarguable that there *do* exist various parties who *do* want to do > precisely this. > > In this context, Radhika's comment makes sense, to me at least. > > Udhay > > >"Radhika, Y." wrote: > >absolutely...how can you keep alive the idea of the nation state > >without teaching the young about the struggle and the idea of invasion > >whether by trade or military? Here i am not casting a value judgement > >on whether that is good or bad but am merely arguing that history has > >a political agenda as well as other agendas. > > > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > > > > > > Indrajit Gupta > 'Ramsharan', 396, TT Krishnamachari Road, > Teynampet, > Chennai 600 018. > > +914455511138 > +919884375777 > > > ________________________________ > Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket > Yahoo! Messenger Mobile Stay in touch with your buddies all the time. > > -- Radhika, Y.R. Project Manager, ICSC Centering Women in Reconstruction and Governance International Center for Sustainable Cities Vancouver, BC Ph: 604-666-0061
