[Reader-list] rants against media and politicisation

[Nazneen Anand Shamsi]

Dear Mahmood,

Thank you for replying to suggestion.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM, mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com
> wrote:

Good idea. But tell me a little bit about your ancestry first, not
necessarily biological


Pray, I wonder. What's my ancestry got to do with anything I write. I may be
to a kam jaat born for all you know! I am sorry I cannot contribute to your
Project Genealogy!

By the way, despite all your Rhodes education and your warm latkas and
jhatkas as a dastan go, your perhaps well meaning and innocuous question
betray a deep rooted and a banal male castiest anxiety about strangers,
something  which I absolutely loathe among Indians, a la ' Kaun Jaat ', if
you may.

Warm regards

Nazo

PS: I am sorry but please don't be upset to see this reply on the reader
list. it's just that i have a pathological allergy to unnecessary personal
conversations. You may have noticed that I have had this conversation with
other list members too, in the past. I have joined this esteemed online
community to engage in a public dialogue only! I hope that is not an issue
with you. And despite all the respect that I have and Will always have for
the exemplary work that you are doing to revive an ancient art form of
storytelling, I think I deserve an apology, to be considered as a deserving
recipient to this most disgusting question, which I, in my humble opinion,
think, does not fit well to the public persona that you have so carefully
crafted.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM, mahmood farooqui <mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Good idea. But tell me a little bit about your ancestry first, not
> necessarily biological
>
> 2008/10/9 Nazneen Anand Shamsi <nazoshmasi at googlemail.com>
>
> Yes. There is.
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>> How about a dastan goi performance on Jamia and other stories, with
>> Aamir Hamza as a terrorist/storyteller. Retelling of the present as
>> fantastic history.
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>> [Reader-list] rants against media and politicisation
>> mahmood farooqui mahmood.farooqui at gmail.com
>> Wed Oct 8 22:36:48 IST 2008
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>> Politicisation of an issue=dirty, partisan play by political parties.
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>> Play by political parties=realm of social, political negotiation=openly
>> roughing it out=mob political culture=civil war with a bumbling
>> authoritarian state
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>> Is that news
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>> Is there another way
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