[Reader-list] Fwd: kashmir pictures

[Aarti Sethi]

Dear Kshmendra,

I am interested in how easily we slip into the categories that the state
gives us. Anyone confronting the police is a "hoodlum" and a "law-breaker"
who should be dealt with by the guardians of the law. How frightening this
sort of language is, and if ever the mysticism of the law and its capacity
for unlimited terror is on display, it is when the ethical is identified
with the legal in the seamless fashion that you do above.

best
A

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:57 PM, mahmood farooqui <
mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com>
> Date: 2008/8/14
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] kashmir pictures
> To: kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com
>
>
> Thanks Kshemendra, I can't say I am getting the answers but the responses
> are making me think.
>
> Best,
> Mahmood
>
> 2008/8/14 Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
>
>  Dear Mahmood
> >
> > Whether 'all press' is communal or not, you certainly are. You are trying
> > to instigate communal feelings by suggesting a communal slant.
> >
> > Times of India and Hindustan Times showed photograph of a hoodlum
> > attacking a policeman.
> >
> > Inquilab showed the photograph of a person injured by police firing. If
> > this person was a part of the mob attempting to break the law and/or
> > attacking the police, then the injured person was a hoodlum injured by
> > police firing.
> >
> > What is communal in all of this? You are the one making it communal.
> >
> > There was confrontation between the police and law breaking hoodlums in
> > Kashmir and in Jammu. What makes either situation communal?
> >
> > Which is the 'communal' one between two kinds of photographs, one where
> law
> > enforcers are shown as being attacked by law breakers and another one
> where
> > law breakers are shown as having been hurt by law enforcers.
> >
> > Perhaps if you had furnished the captions accompanying the photographs,
> one
> > could make a call on which newspaper showed a 'communal' tinge
> >
> > Kshmendra
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On *Wed, 8/13/08, mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com
> >*wrote:
> >
> > From: mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Reader-list] kashmir pictures
> > To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>, "Aamir Bashir" <
> > unattore1 at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:33 PM
> >
> > Yesterday, nine Kashmiris were allegedly killed in the valley because of
> the
> > police firing.
> >
> > Today, in the Bombay editions of the Times of India and Hindustan Times,
> > there is an identical image of a policeman being attacked by a Kashmiri.
> > There are no images of any Kashmiris being killed or attacked by the
> police.
> >
> > The Urdu daily Inqilab, however, shows a Kashmiri injured by the police
> > firing.
> >
> > Is it simplistic to say that all press is communal?
> >
> > Is the poser itself simplistic?
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