[Reader-list] Fwd: About the list

[Zainab Bawa]

Let's kill the reader-list.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Tapas Ray <tapasrayx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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