On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Indrajit Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:
> --- On Wed, 12/1/11, Supriya Nair <[email protected]> wrote: > Apart from the shock value of that statement, do you see no difference? Certainly I do. But Ghose, as I read her column, seems to be asking a question that is already adequately answered by history: are there people in India who think it is valid to construct and enforce nationalism through brutality? Yes. Could this violence take the form of political assassination? Yes. As you say, it is a political reality even for people who may not be national figures of suspicion and hate, people who are neither Gandhi nor Taseer, nor yet Arundhati Roy. S > 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. > >
