[Reader-list] Fwd: A Just Peace in Kashmir? Reflections on

[cashmeeri]

sanjay
 
my mail was sent to closed web groups
 
it is unethical of you to put it in public space without my permission
 
........ aalok aima


--- On Fri, 7/8/09, reader-list-request at sarai.net <reader-list-request at sarai.net> wrote:


Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 20:45:33 +0530
From: Sanjay Kak <kaksanjay at gmail.com>
Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd:  A Just Peace in Kashmir? Reflections on
To: Sarai Reader List <reader-list at sarai.net>

Yes, I do agree with Junaid that Kshemendra Kaul should engage with
Richard Shapiro's arguments, rather than summarily dismiss them...
I just received a fwd about the Shapiro piece where Kshemendra's
dismissal has already become a venerable quotation for Aalok!

Before it becomes graven in stone, we all look forward to a serious engagement.
In the spirit of this Reader List, if nothing else!
Sanjay Kak


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Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Subject: -=Kashmir-Interchange=- Requesting KP intellect - Please
respond toRichard Shapiro
To: KPNetwork <kpnetwork at yahoogroups.com>,
kashmir-interchange at googlegroups.com, kp-middleeast at yahoogroups.co.in


Without any doubt there is a Bank of Intellect that exists amongst
KPs, even though it might not be reflected in such habitual
'Hate-Mongers' who while not contributing anything productive to this
world only do harm to the KPs and to India.
This request is for the KP Bank of Intellect and not the 'Hate-Mongers'.

Reproduced below is a piece by Richard Shapiro "A Just Peace in
Kashmir? Reflections on Dynamics of Change"

As can be seen after a read, the article (as someone described it):
       "...is replete with prejudice, bias, ill-concieved presumptions
and mis-constructed deductions.
The sweeping generalisations he makes and his misrepresentations
bordering on outright lies are only to be expected with his more than
evident prejudice and bias."

Richard Shapiro is "Chair and Associate Professor, Department of
Social and Cultural Anthropology at the California Institute of
Integral Studies in San Francisco. (CIIS)"

Shapiro is reported as being the spouse of Angana Chatterji who is
"Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at California Institute
of Integral Studies (CIIS)".

Those who know about Angana Chatterji's  'work' will immediately
recognise not only the connections but also the commonality of
attitudes towards India  and Kashmir.

The KP Bank of Intellect is requested to suitably and through
appropiate forums counter the 'case' being presented by Richard
Shapiro.

Again, the "Hate-Mongers" are requested not to try and essay responses
to Shapiro because both their intellectual bankruptcy, ill-informed
and compartmentalised world-view and foolish attitudes will be
counter-productive.


...... aalok aima