[Reader-list] Fwd: About the list

[Tapas Ray]

I forgot to point out something that had been on my mind: that these
people have successfully *imposed their agenda* on the list. Ever
since Vedavati raised the issue of beef, a very large part of the
"discussion", or dialogue of the deaf, or mudslinging, whatever one
may call it, has centred around them and their Hindutva provocations.
For long periods of time, such as in recent months, this agenda had
taken up more or less the entire space.

Whether they have lost or prevailed is not relevant here. Their true
achievement lies in imposing the Hindutva agenda.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tapas Ray <tapasrayx at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/11/13
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] About the list
To: Reader-list <reader-list at sarai.net>


Monica,

It is, of course, your prerogative to decide whether the likes of
Pawan and Aditya should be expelled or not. But I would like to repeat
- because I would request you to consider - a couple of things I have
said recently and had said two or three years ago (maybe earlier) when
this whole thing started with Vedavati (as far as I remember) throwing
in the cow slaughter issue out of nowhere, refused to stop repeating
the same "arguments" ad nauseum, and was soon joined by a few others
in that enterprise.

...

Tapas