--- On Wed, 12/1/11, Supriya Nair <[email protected]> wrote: From: Supriya Nair <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [silk] The republic of fear To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 12 January, 2011, 11:05
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: >> Will there be a day when an Indian will be faced with mortal danger from a young hardliner because he is considered 'anti-national?' I know this column is pegged to the Taseer murder, but surely Indians should have learned the answer to this question on or around January 30, 1948. Supriya Apart from the shock value of that statement, do you see no difference? Gandhi's profile and value to the One-Nation Theory preaching Congress was enormous, gigantic. His murder could have been seen, morality and ethics aside, as the destruction of the major engine of the Congress' political authority and power, a permanent block to its hopes of continuing as a functioning organisation. The murder of 7 people by the CPM harmad in Lalgarh is essentially different, just as the murder of the Jadavpur University ViceChancellor in the 70s was different: those were all ordinary people of no iconic value, people who would have made marginal differences in politics. It is when a tailor get knifed for stating a political belief in a tea-shop conversation that democracy comes to a grinding halt, not, shocking though it may seem at first blush.
