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[Kirdar]

To put in a layman's language - let us grin and bear it. Adityaraj,
Pawan and others are part of the reality, we can't unsubscribe them.
The only way to avoid them is to unsubscribe yourself from the list
and go settle in the Himalayas. (avoid Kashmir though).

Time to leave folks.

Kirdar



On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Monica Narula <monica at sarai.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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