[Reader-list] In Valley, gunmen take to moral policing: ‘enforce hijab in college’

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

Dear All,

There is a small but not insiginificant typographical error in my  
posting preceding this one - the sentence that reads -

" The point I made about Nadeem Paracha's loosely articulated polemic  
against Roy, which inititated this exchange, seems, to me to be  
strengthened by this. I do however, remain hopeful, that this list  
will eventually teach Rashneek to be more careful with his words. "

Should read as

  "The point I made about Nadeem Paracha's loosely articulated  
polemic against Roy, which inititated the exchange parallel to this  
one (Rashneek's forward of Paracha's critique of Roy), seems, to me  
to be strengthened by this. I do however, remain hopeful, that this  
list will eventually teach Rashneek to be more careful with his words. "

Apologies for this inadvertent error.

best

Shuddha
On 30-Aug-09, at 11:07 AM, Shuddhabrata Sengupta wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Rashneek says  -  "there is a history on this network here is a  
> history on this
>> network where people have called barbarians like Sikander  
>> Butshikan and Syed
>> mohd.Hamdani divinely ordained dervishes and incidentally these  
>> are people
>> who claim to have Marxist if not Moaist ideologies."
>
> This is a very interesting statement. I am not a Maoist (I consider  
> Maoism to be yet another variety of degenerate third worldist  
> nationalism - ) but I am persuaded by critical strains within  
> Marxism, (among other things) and have never concealed that fact.   
> I also happen to have mentioned Sikandar 'Butshikan' and Hamadani  
> in one of my set of postings -
>

Shuddhabrata Sengupta
The Sarai Programme at CSDS
Raqs Media Collective
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