Divya Manian wrote, [on 5/18/2009 5:50 AM]: >> but the terms you used are exclusively the province of the hindutva parties >> out here. > > I think it is ridiculous to censor words just because it is a jargon > employed by some hardliners.
I don't believe that is the point. The point, which Karl Rove (or Arundhati Roy, for that matter) realise only all too well, is that if you control the language in which a debate is framed, you end up controlling the direction of the debate. See, among other things, the "weak" Sapir-Whorf hypothesis [1] Udhay [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir_Whorf -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
