[Reader-list] Kashmir Session at WSF

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

In my previous posting in this thread, a line that reads 

"A discussion list like this, is hopefully, precisely something that a 
seminar or an expert panel is."

should read

"A discussion list like this, is hopefully, precisely something that a 
seminar or an expert panel is not."

The not is not there in the posting, which changes the meaning of what I am 
saying entirely. My fingers have been told off by my brain. 

apologies, and Cheers

Shuddha



On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:14 pm, Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote:
> Dear Zainab and everyone,
>
> Many thanks, Zainab, for filling in a much more vivid and detailed picture
> of the Kashmir panel that I had mentioned at the WSF. I did not stay right
> till the end of the panel, and so was not aware of what transpired at the
> question and answer session. (and I must add that I was also not present at
> the juncure when a Kashmiri Pandit lady who was present, protested, and who
> you say was silenced). Of course, my report, was incomplete, and your
> testimony only points to the fact that there can never be a record of an
> event that is anything other than what the witness saw, or, more
> interestingly, perhaps chose to see. I saw, or chose to see, a certain
> slice of the event, and that is what i have written about, it needs to be
> qualified and seen in relation to what you saw, and what you reported, that
> is why this is a discussion list and not a seminar. So thanks for that !
> After all, we did sit next to each other for a while when both of us were
> present. And what would be the point of both of us being on this list, if
> at least we could not enjoy the fact of complicating each other's
> narrative, in a Rashomonesque sort of way !
>


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