[Reader-list] 6 Questions for Vedavati

[khadeeja arif]

  Dear Prashant,
Please elaborate!!
Cheers
K


On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 Prashant Pandey wrote :
>hi
>guys decide for urself what does "us" means for u ?
>does it mean... "us" as in  "us and them "  or "us" as in meaning what belongs to everybody (hamara...hum sabka and so on )
>its sad that for a lot of people here "us" means an exclusive group big or small pitted against another group big or small ...eliciting a well intended but  very stock response.
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>On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 shivam wrote :
> >To add to what Khadeeja is saying, a major problem with us when we
> >talk about The Muslims is that we see them as a monolith. There is so
> >much fragmentation within India's "Muslims" - on regional, caste and
> >class basis. The kebabs, Khans and the tennis player belong to India,
> >to all of us, and are not an exclusive product of The Muslims.
> >
> >On 7/25/05, Manosh Chowdhury <manoshchowdhury at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks Khadeeja,   "And friends, Muslims in India can be represented beyond
> > > 'Kababs', 'three Khans' and one Tennis player".   The statement is self
> > > evident about how liberalism could reduce its subjects. I almost started
> > > forgetting Ms. Jogi after reading six questions. However, by liberalism,
> > > roughly I indend to conceive a comprehensive package of what is propagated
> > > as secularism , democracy [that is, electoral authentication of opression in
> > > many regions including Northeastern ones, with significant rotation - when
> > > and where it was found to be necessary - including Punjab], womens' right
> > > [as it was discovered all over the world since Laura Bush had emancipated
> > > Afghan women] and the relish of Bollywood cult along with the hype of
> > > consumerism. I am not much kind of a good subscriber of "freedom of
> > > _expression" as such. And I feel this is being ridiculous. I hope that
> > > sometimes our privileged friends would really understand that the
> > > responsibility is far beyond that of just criticizing BJP and remain apart.
> > >   Best  manosh
> > >
> > >
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