[Reader-list] Can't we shut Reader-List temporarily until polls are over

[francesca recchia]

Dear all

As a non-Indian who tries to follow and contribute to the reading list, the idea of suspending it during the election time sounds quite unfortunate. 
I guess this can be a challenge to the general sense of responsibility and respect towards the others in how we write what we write.

This is definitely not the site for campaigning but should be the place for challenging and exchanging each other's ideas.

There is a quotation from Julio Cortazar that I love and might be inspiring in this debate:
I write by default and dislocation, and since I write out of an
interstice I always invite others to discover one of their own and to
see for themselves the garden where the trees bear fruits that turn out
to be precious stones. The monster remains the same.

Hugs
francesca

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--- On Sat, 18/4/09, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Can't we shut Reader-List temporarily until polls are over
To: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Saturday, 18 April, 2009, 6:33 PM

Dear

strange, that we are afraid, scared, and willing to shut even,
completely, and transform into a blank page, even.....

it is not the political opinion which is disturbing,  but the shallow
approach to the convictions of some of the concerned participants,

elections or no elections , these couple of guys will always do what
they feel is the most urgent,

these guys will always ignore the importance of language and style of
communicating, for them  to hurl the core content like a stone at the
other is very effective tool to score a  point. but alas , that is not
so, in the long run, we are left alone, and we have to finally talk to
ourselves, anger and violence is not finally enriching our
understanding of who we are, and what we want to become.

i guess, there is always a room for improvement

and dont we have our own animal like political system behaving like that, sadly

so
cool

with love and regards
is





On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Yousuf <ysaeed7 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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