[Reader-list] Fwd: Sanjay Kak on Ram Guha's Book

[Partha Dasgupta]

Hi Pawan,

All of us have our 'plus' points and 'minus' points from other people's
points of view. However you may disagree with Kak's view on Kashmir, what
he's written has veracity.

As for the 'truths' that were put in front of him - they were to the point
of why did he depict one thing and not another. That's as crazy as the
controversy over 'Jodhaa Akbar' now - that's his personal artistic freedom
to depict from his point of view. If you have something different to say,
say it - but that does not give you the right to demean someone else because
s/he thinks differently.

Besides which, the writing does sound extremely effusive, making it seem
more an eulogy than a review...

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

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:

> Partha ,
>
> Do we have to invest our time in a debate over what a compulsive liar has
> reviewed ? We have put many truths before him on certain issue and his
> expression were blank.
>
> It helped me compare him with Monalisa.
>
> Monalisa with a beard.
>
> Pawan
>
>
>
>
> On 3/5/08, Partha Dasgupta <parthaekka at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Aditya,
> >
> > That's a bit like asking who's Pawan or Aditya or, for that matter,
> > Partha.
> > None of us on this list know each other yet we still have the
> > intellectual
> > honesty to look clearly at a point of view and debate it.
> >
> > Who Sanjay Kak is does not matter. What matters is his point of view,
> > and if
> > you disagree with it, why?
> >
> > Rgds, Partha
> > .................
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Good One Pawan. :-)
> > >
> > > Why is an "Intellectual Forum" namely Sarai geting into a discussion
> > on
> > > some
> > > review written by just another person ? Pawan asks rightly, Who is
> > this
> > > Sanjay Kak ?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Aditya Raj Kaul
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/5/08, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Joke of the day : Kak's review comes like a breath of honest,fresh
> > air.
> > > >
> > > > Sanjay Kak and being Honest ........I saw snow on Mumbai streets
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 3/5/08, Namrata Kakkar <namratakakkar1 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Dear everybody,
> > > > >                  Having read Sanjay Sub's wrong but
> > > > > back patting, ridiculous review on the SARAI list, I
> > > > > was just wondering how could readers at Sarai list
> > > > > tolerate such nonsensical bribery, blind eye
> > > > > stupidity. Kak's review comes like a breath of honest,
> > > > > fresh air. But couldn't Sanjay Sub. himself raise
> > > > > these questions? Infact anybody a bit literate enough
> > > > > would tear this book into shreds; but Sanajy could not
> > > > > do so since Ram Guha is now a new promoter in the
> > > > > Indian circles--mustering and manipulating crores of
> > > > > rupees through  his (i.e, Indian) Arts Foundation. Ram
> > > > > guha is a man with book length muscles now.
> > > > >
> > > > >          So even if he continues writing this bull
> > > > > shit, he will be a Sanjay's public historian ( like
> > > > > men love public woman ( sorry). One wonders if he too
> > > > > is aspiring a 50,000 rupees felllowship from Ram Guha.
> > > > > He may...
> > > > > But anyway, thank you SARAI.
> > > > > Namrata
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Note: forwarded message attached.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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