[Reader-list] rants against media and politicisation

[mahmood farooqui]

Thanks Nazo. I just wanted to probe your deep anxiety about the personal. I
do believe in caste. I am also doing exemplary work in other fields but I am
deeply dissatisfied with the examples that abound. My public persona is best
crafted after sundown.

And since Zaat, in the sense that you use it, is about biological ancestry,
you should go back to my original question. I am not interested in it.

But it is good to pique my interest.

2008/10/10 Nazneen Anand Shamsi <nazoshmasi at googlemail.com>

> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> N
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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
>>>
>>> Is that news
>>>
>>> Is there another way
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