[Reader-list] Death of a debate! Atlast!

[sadan at sarai.net]

thanks Namrata,
for declaring the debate dead and lot of other remarks. Each reader has a
right to ask this question, what did s/he get. But I noticed you wrote,
'But what did we gain'. I wonder what does this we stand for?
I appreciate that you followed this debate with interest and cared to write
 an obituary.
My fear is that dead sould may come back 
sadan.


 
On 4:11 pm 01/11/08 Namrata Kakkar <namratakakkar1 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Dear All,
>          I think the debate that was going on here
> over a few days on whether all forms of histories need
> the archives or not, and other questions related to
> it, have reached a dead end and has died an un-
> natural death. We are relieved.
>        This was all but obvious. While Chatterjee's
> confidence and erudition coupled with false humility
> and humbleness was all too transparent( he seems to be
> knwoing the answer to the question he was asking), Mr.
> Jha was trying too make both ends meet, anyhow; his
> arguments were at times wild off the mark.And Ritwik's
> late entry complicated the scene further, he would
> pass a judgement without wanting to back it and then
> switching to a new judgement. The only man sincere in
> this debate was Prem Chadravarkar who was foucused
> throughout but his sincerity was sacrificed to an
> ungainly comment, which he should not have taken
> personally at all.
>     I think there were many readers like me who were
> following this debate with interest. But what did we
> gain--this is the question? And somebody should
> answer.
> namrata
>
>
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