[Reader-list] Of mocking and an "intellectual community"

Mon Sep 10 18:20:01 IST 2007

Hi Mr Gargi sen and the readers of SARAI,

  aapne acha ENGLISH ka pravinya dikhaya gargi sen ji lekin gallat waje ke liye. Ee bahut dukh ki baat hai.  Bye the way what is the ARKP+VD is all about? junaid jaise log likh rahe to yahan logon ko kuch farwa nahi hai lekin maine jo likha hai usko side track karke kuch bhi bolne main bahut hoshiyaar hai bhule bhale log.  

  ham/mein gusse pe nahin lekin thoda sochne main hai ki 
  jo khoya hai (list in my previous mails) usee kaise wapus lautayenge? 
  aur abhi tak kisine bhi kyu nahin yatna kiya ??? 
  aur baki ka duniya kya kiya aisi hallat main???
  uske and hume (india) main kya farak hai???  
  is generation main bhi hum kyum nahi badalne ka koshish kar rahe hai???   

  towards that the thinking and trying.    If india is not central point to universe why all those things I mentioned in my earlier mails happened to India only?  Everytime why the India only tolerate,suffer and asked to live in peace and patience???

  agar thik thak se boldiya to sach ye hai ki 

  USA IS HAVING JUST 500 YEARS OF HISTORY
  EUROPE --PROBABLY 3000 YEARS
  ASIA - INDIA IS THE OLDEST 
  Akhand bharat yani INDIA -- pre harappan culture,history,wealth,knowledge

  VEDAS BORNED HERE(INDIA).
  WE INVENTED 0 ON WHICH ENTIRE HITECH WORLD is built and RUNNING TODAY.
  MANY PHILOSOPHERS,SCIENTISTS BORNED HERE(India).
  Many SAINTS BORNED AND BROUGHTUP HERE(INDIA) AND SHOWN THE PATH TO 
  THE WORLD.

  As the almighty told he took the birth 9 times(as BHUDDA- last time ) to stabilse the things in the world.

  YADA YADA HI DHARMASYA GLANI RBHAVATHI BHARATA
  ABHYUTTHANAM ADHARMASYA TADATMANAM SRIJAMYAHAM!.
  PAVITRANAYA SADHOONAM VINASAYACHA DUSHKUTHAM 
  DHARMA SAMSTHAPANARTDHAYA SAMBHAVAMI YUGE YUGE!

  like this many many many...

  isko manna chahiye ((india is centre to the universe)). 

  Regards,
  Dhatri.

Gargi Sen <sen.gargi at gmail.com> wrote:
  O dear dear! The mocking hyena laugh was aimed at you and the rest of the
gang dear K. of ARKP + VD. You didn't get it? Its not about your
language-use but about thought-use.
After all what other way can any intellectual or otherwise cyber-community
do in response to your brethren's clarion call to action (stop the
preview-screenings of a film, protest the govt' steps for affirmative
action, and many more besides.) In stopping the preview screenings by an
individual filmmaker - deluge ALL list servs, blogs, email ids that dare to
carry the twin words: Kashmir-film - with incessant and continuous mails
from a bunch of very, very angry people, angry with the filmmaker and bent
on proving his nefarious links to some imagined 'influential' connection.
On the grounds you have stopped the final leg of the six-months preview
screenings quite successfully. Thrice. Twice in Bombay and once in Delhi.
And had the filmmaker meanwhile not finished with his tours he would perhaps
not been able to continue as now there appears to be no more previews
possible at all. Your rage though does not end here. You have spammed and
jammed each and every blog that simply carry the twin words. The other day a
friend from Parihaspur told me that on her blog on pelicans that she uses to
converses with other pelican lovers you all have plastered your endlessly
same rhetoric simply because she mentions one line - The other day I saw a
film on Kashmir.
So not only do you patrol the streets my dears, you patrol the cyber-space
too. Endlessly wary, continuously vigilant lest free-thought escape your
watchful eyes and freely mix with free thinkers.
And your tactics are the same and quite effective. Endlessly and en-mass say
the same thing on every forum and pepper it with very personal attacks on an
individual. This is an effective method, throw so much shit into the fan
that people stop breathing, leave alone seeing. So effectively free speech
is zipped up and people stop speaking altogether simply for the fear of
provoking the same hysterical, endlessly repeating repetitions one more
time.

You taunt people who question borders and boundaries, call them
anti-national and ungrateful, and yet you remain gleefully silent when the
state you repose such faith in continues to turn out its own citizens from
their homes and hearth in order to genuflect to global
capital.Yournationalistic zeal effectively prevents you from
perceiving, leave alone
questioning, the super efficient way your government has circumscribed your
constitution, the very foundation and the principles on which this state is
built upon.
You show allegiance to the flag and passport, but are strangely quiet about
the anti-nationalistic working of large corporations. You howl in protest
when the state initiates affirmative action, you march and rant and rave,
find symbols of protest that make the dignity of labour very, very
undignified indeed. For what? Simply so that another set of citizens,
residents of the very same nation, do not get any access to the rights that
you have enjoyed forever. You indict some people in Kashmir as terrorists
and simply ignore State terrorism, in Kashmir, elsewhere. On top of it all,
you talk endlessly, say the same things over and over on this list, read
nothing on this list and take offense at everything. Especially take offense
at things that have not been said, done or intended at all.
Now what can any community do in response other than laugh? Especially a
virtual community connected by the cyber-cord? Either switch off in disgust
or switch on humour, no?

So we laugh.

What CAN we do with you dear ARKP + VD but laugh? The picture of the
Winchester repeater is so very apt for you. We draw the picture and perhaps
gently mock. And I say perhaps because i haven't really seen serious
mocking. So you must accuse the 'intellectuals' at least some, of that. No
one cut any one off this list. So you must accuse that you were cut off. No
one pointed out any issues with any one's lack of skills of English. So you
must bring that accusation up too.
Your naive faith in Goebbels belief - a lie repeated endlessly will
eventually become true - is so complete to be almost touching my dears.
So what can any one do but laugh?
Laugh, chide, and continue. With our conversations and games, some of which
you will get but most you won't simply because you don't really want to play
a game with us, you only want to stop us from playing ourselves lest we
speak the unmentionable: Kashmir- film.
Rest in peace dear K. And when you wake up tomorrow think of another
accusation to hurl that most people on this list will ignore because what
does anyone, or what can anyone say to you? And every once in a while some
one like me will respond to the mail. Not because I take anything you say
with any seriousness but because I enjoy a laugh and write with the hope
someone, somewhere is reading the sub-text of my thoughts and enjoying a
quiet chuckle.
So thank you my dears for endless entertainment.
yours amusedly,
Gargi Sen

On 09/09/2007, Kshmendra Kaul < kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It appears that for some in this "intellectual community", it is an
> "intellectual" accomplishment to make fun of someone's lack of familiarity
> with and skill at the English language.
>
> Kshmendra Kaul
>
>
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