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[Monica Narula]

Dear All

I think its rather cute the way dear everyone is asking for an  
intervention from the admin - now increasingly feeling like a class  
monitor!

The coming years are going to be a difficult ones. There is going to  
be a massive drop in employment opportunities, liquidity will fall,  
infrastructure will remain half-built etc. There will also be an  
increasing shrillness of speech. This, I am guessing, will lead to an  
aggressive acceleration in both inclusive and exclusive  
authoritarianism. So the future trajectory of the language game and  
the rhetorical quotient on the reader-list will be something that I  
am a little ambivalent about.

I request list members to be aware that making charges without  
substantial ground is more to do with incitement than to do with  
discussion. It is odd that when the world is trying to come to term  
with global seismic shocks that seem to come at all of us from all  
directions, archaic accusations about the "foreign" seem to find some  
votaries.

Let us think a little harder. The world is not legible. In an  
increasingly blurring reality, understanding the grounds of  
accusations and rhetorical posturing will be necessary. Let us think  
how to deal with language, and what it says, in what can feel like a  
crumbling world, rather than merely becoming the dust that arises  
from this process.

best
Monica
List Admin

Monica Narula
Sarai-CSDS
29 Rajpur Road
Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net