[Reader-list] and Gandhi dies again...

[vishwajyoti ghosh]

Dear Keith,
In response to yr query, I would redirect much of Sanjay Ghosh's opinion posted on this list fr the same. 
Vishwajyoti

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 Keith Hart wrote :
>Vishwajyoti Ghosh,
>
>I was moved by your account of how your art works suffered an assault by fascist thugs. I live near the Gare du Nord and know the Gandhi Fried Chicken place you mention. So that brought an immediacy to what is normally a rather abstract process of reading..
>
>Your epigraph about religion and morality is wise, but didn't the perpetrators of the deed that this was exactly what their actions stood for? I raise this not just as a rhetorical problem, but as an issue that inevitably rises if politics is to be built on a foundation of morality and religion.
>
>And I wonder if you are comparing like with like when you contrast these people with the liberal heroes of India's independence movement. As your header points out, Gandhi was shot by someone not unlike those who burnt your drawings and many people died in genocidal attacks at the time. Do you really mean to say that Indian society as a whole or even its political class alone has deteriorated since then? Again, I raise this question, not to put you on the spot, but because I too feel that we have lost something that the world generated in the 1940s, but I am not sure of the basis for my judgment..
>
>Keith Hart


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