[Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME
sabitha t p
sabitha_tp at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Nov 10 23:57:13 IST 2008
I too am mostly a lurker, only rarely adding my two-bit. I whole-heartedly second the idea of ousting some unidimensional boring ignorant rude parochial misogynist people from the list. As Vivek had suggested earlier, I had directed some of the mailers directly to my "Trash" folder, but there's a limit to the hijacking of the list and the silencing of any serious discussion. The American election has at least animated the list with things other than Kashmir. But that's for now.
Let's talk about "The White Tiger" (a seriously badly written novel - we should ask why some of us find it so), the films "A Wednesday" (and why it made us profoundly uneasy) and "The Dark Knight" (and its fantastic shot of the Benjaminian angel of destuction), Mayawati and mainstream Dalit politics in India, the case against article 377, the "global" art market (is global always already the market, thus making the term tautological?) and many other such equally riveting things. Out damn spot (of bother)! Long live the list!
Cheers
Sabitha.
--- On Mon, 10/11/08, Ravikant <ravikant at sarai.net> wrote:
From: Ravikant <ravikant at sarai.net>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME
To: reader-list at sarai.net
Date: Monday, 10 November, 2008, 10:25 PM
Dear Moderator,
I have been an avid reader yet mostly a lurker on this list. I have read and
seen all the drama and I am glad to notice that more and more people are
getting impatient with certain people who can do no better than post comments
like the one posted below. I think the time has come to say good bye to some
of our friends. Their track record on the list is anything but healthy for
the robust growth of this list. Remember this list had a life before they
came here, and it has a future. Like Shuddha, I am very tolerant of people
who do not agree with me, and I do believe that you can not remain an island
for far too long - the filth around will catch up with you howsoever hard you
may try to escape it. But unlike him, I do not entertain any wishful thinking
about them. So If these people can see niether history nor reason, and if
they can't see the multildimensionality of this list, they have no business
being here. I join the people who think they should be given a farewell. I
don't mind a less colourful life - I will at least have more time to read
better stuff - of which there has never been a dearth on this list.
All they can do is spit on people they do not agree with!! That's the limit
of
their civility. And that's the limit to which I can go hosting them.
ravikant
सोमवार 10 नवम्बर 2008 21:36 को, Aditya Raj Kaul
ने लिखा था:
> like INDER SALIM.
>
> On 11/10/08, inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > in the least, i hope , the stupid Govt would ensure this
'Taslima
> > Event' not disrupted by extra stupid elements
> >
> > love
> > is
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:45 PM, MRSG <mrsg at vsnl.com> wrote:
> > > Dear Shudda Sengupta
> > > Thanks. Kindly correct the date - It is on 19 Novemeber 2008.
> > > M Ray
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> > > To: MRSG
> > > Cc: sarai list
> > > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:31 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear M.Ray,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you very much for posting this. It is very good to know
that
> >
> > Kolkata stands by the exiled writer Taslima Nasrin. I hope that she
will
> > one day be able to return to live there in liberty and dignity.
> >
> > > regards
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Shuddha
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10-Nov-08, at 7:15 PM, MRSG wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Invitation
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > A YEAR OF SHAME
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On the eve of one year of throwing out of Taslima Nasrin from
> > > Kolkata
> > >
> > > An anthology of Poems for Taslima to be released by
> > >
> > > Eminent educationist and thinker Amlan Dutta,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > An Evening Of Protest With Poems of
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Tarun Sanyal, Sarat Mukhopadhy, Joy Goswami, Sabyasachi Deb,
> > > Shrijato,
> >
> > Kalikrishna Guha, Farukh Ahmed, Lalmia Molla, Naser Hussain, Ranjit
> > Gupta, Namita Chowdhury, Mousumi Bilkis, Taimur Khan, Pallab
Kirtania,
> > Partho Bandyopadhyay, Bipul Chakraborty, Sumitava Ghosal and others.
> > Giyasuddin and Saswati Ghosh will speak
> >
> > > ON 19 DECEMBER, 2008. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, CONFERENCE HALL,
> > > KOLKATA,
> >
> > 6 PM
> >
> > > Organised by CAAMB (Campaign Against Atrocities on Minorities
of
> >
> > Bangladesh), Kolkata
> >
> > > A year back, on 22 December 2007, Taslima Nasrin was hounded
out of
> >
> > Kolkata by Islamic fundamentalists. She was earlier hounded out of
> > Bangladesh, roamed like a refugee throughout the world, but always
> > believed that she at least had a safe house in the left and secular
city
> > of Kolkata. We also believed that.
> >
> > > The process of hounding out Taslima from West Bengal began
long
> > > back.
> >
> > She was barred to read her poems in Medinipur, she was not allowed to
> > inaugurate The Book Fair in Siliguri. To support these
fundamentalists,
> > Left Front government banned her book. Our protest was too mild. And
then
> > finally on 22 December 2007, Left front government threw her out of
> > Kolkata after a day-long violence by a group of Muslims in Kolkata.
The
> > expulsion was supported by Trinamul leader Mamata Bandopadhyay in her
> > earlier lectures to the madrasa students, CPI-M supremo Biman Basu
told
> > that Taslima should have left herself earlier, Congress leader
Subrata
> > Mukherjee said that the violence on 21 December was like the freedom
> > struggle. Kolkata had to realise who really controls the so-called
> > cultural capital of India. Kolkatans never faced such a shame
earlier.
> >
> > > Taslima still cannot come back to Kolkata. We have lived
through a
> >
> > year of shame.
> >
> > > We shall not forget. We shall not remain silent. Join us
there
> > >
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