[Reader-list] The Vedavatis of this world

[Tapas Ray]

First, I did not claim to be an avid reader of the things being posted here. 
On the contrary, I said I HAVE NOT read everything that has been posted.

Second, "the process" is a good thing, but because it is such a good thing, 
it needs to be protected. "Eternal vigil is the price of freedom". If we 
believe in "the process", we should defend it, not only from those who 
openly say they are fighting to end it and blow up police jeeps to prove it, 
but also from those who use it as a short or medium term tactical move, in 
order to ultimately destroy it and install in its place their own utopias, 
whether it is "Ram Rajya" or the "classless society". We should not forget 
that the Bolsheviks, and after them the Nazis, used "the process" to subvert 
it so effectively. The same tactics are being used by both flanks of the 
political spectrum in India, and there is no need to see the Sarai list - or 
any list for that matter - as a space that completely transcends the mundane 
space of day-to-day politics.

Tapas Ray
Calcutta

> Hi,
> I need not be in agreement with 'thoughtful' argument going on with 
> 'worthy' vedavati but mr Roy how come avid readers like you (as the claim 
> go) can suggest 'silencing' the voice the way you > suggest. No I don't 
> have a better way out but it DO NOT mean endorsing 'fundamentalist like' 
> way you are suggesting. When dispotism creep in it surely come this way 
> only(A apparently rational way). And trust me once arrived it will not 
> stop at silencing 'vedavatis of this world' only. It will surely reach 
> Tapas' as well. So please let the wisdom prevail and let it be so through 
> a process only. Hope you all will consider
> vijender