[Reader-list] How CPM blocked the screening of Taurus

[Partha Dasgupta]

Dear Gargi,

Actually, haven't figured out the acronym as yet. In fact, figured out the
'SAP' one only when Shuddha clarified. Was a bit surprised to see strong
Indian patriots using Americanism. Guess some of the virus of
intellectualism has infected them as well.

Whether CPM or whatever, the reason a human being has a heart and a mind is
that the folks up there felt that both were required to have a balanced life
(though we couldn't live without either) and a balanced decision.

Just as I wouldn't sacrifice my children because a tantric demands human
sacrifice, and just as I fought a group of my friends in the frenzy of a mob
who wanted to torch a bus - I will disagree here as well, because staying
silent is what has allowed monsters like Hitler the freedom to make the
loudest mouth the ruler.

When there is a scab on a wound, does one always tear it off to force
bleeding and infection or cover it to heal? Yet, this scab is being
scratched again and again with howls of "look, I'm bleeding"

I'm not qualified enough to say which hospital is required here, but I do
know that serious help is required before our silence lets them become the
loudest voices, and we leave our children in a narrow, hate driven society.

Rgds, Partha
..............

On 9/15/07, Gargi Sen <sen.gargi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Dear Partha,
> Leave it. To the AR2KP+VD (hope you have figured this acronym out) bunch
> anyone claiming to be a Marxist or a communist is a card carrying CPM
> member. To their worldview it is not possible to be a communist and not be
> CPM (although wonder why don't they pull out the CPI, Forward Block and the
> n number of left parties!)
> So the AR2KP bunch are trying to tell us – at least many on the list who
> believe in free speech,  even that speech that one isn't in agreement with
> or does not like or feels uncomfortable with – that here is your brethren
> doing exactly what you are telling us to not do. And hence, where is your
> moral high ground?
> Let children have simple pleasures in life Partha – even though my 5 yr
> old certainly doesn't believe in this kind of
> you're-bad-because-the-company-you-keep-is-bad simplicity – I can live
> allowing the AR2KP+VD to have their simple pleasures and gleeful gloating.
> It doesn't bother me what the bunch think of the CPM, I probably think far
> worse because of very complicated and messy history and think so with far
> more pain.
>
> We had once started to discuss on this list is there a way to measure
> pain? Is there any measuring instrument that can measure all our individual
> pain and see who scores the highest? As I don't yet know of any such device
> or instrument but I am still willing to accept that the AR2KP+VD bunch have
> been through pain, intense and undeserved pain, unfair pain and endless
> pain. But for me to remain restricted to a boundary circumscribed by mere
> pain, that too a pain that has been caused 17 years ago, to continuously
> evoke that pain and use that pain to not see anything else besides that
> pain, is to reduce that very pain to something really terrible.
>
> And its this something-terrible that makes for blinkered visions and
> blinkered minds. The blinkered mind of Dritarashtra and the conscious
> blocking of vision by Gandhari led to fratricide leading to near
> annihilation of the entire tribe/ clan/ community. And so I continue to
> engage and debate, even if shit is being thrown up.
>
> Nevertheless my presence on this list is simply as someone who thinks and
> I stand guilty of their charge  of an intellectual (I can hear my friends
> fall off laughing) and so possibly what I am saying is from the mind and
> thought-plane and not the heart and pain-plane. So there's a gulf of
> understanding and positions, a gulf we can possibly try to cross on this
> list, and on such lists only simply for its virtue of being virtual. I am
> sure in real life even conversations with them might have been impossible.
>
> Also, I am also somewhat grateful to the bunch for provoking some of the
> best posts I have read in recent times. Shuddha's post on Hyenas, Tarun's on
> Panditocracy, Sanjay Kak's drawing a ghoulish picture of himself as a
> patriot, Vishal Rawlley's list of patentables are simply brilliant and I am
> not sure these would have happened without the AR2KP+VD. So everything
> perhaps has a purpose, however inexplicable, however painful.
>
> Gargi
>
>
> On 9/15/07 11:54 AM, "Partha Dasgupta" <parthaekka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, For simple people like me, do mention along with the link why you
> posted it. I mena, do you think that blocking screening is a good idea or
> bad? Or do you feel that the CPM is playing supercop? Rgds, Partha On
> 9/15/07, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote: > > >
> http://cpmterror.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-cpm-blocked-screening-of-taurus.html> > Old news from the > BBC< >
> http://cpmterror.blogspot.com/2006/01/economic-stagnation-in-bengal.html>
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