[Reader-list] New Year message from Dr Binayak Sen

[Lalit Ambardar]

Hey, what about the ethnic cleansing & the displacement of an  entire Kashmiri Hindu Pandit Community from their homeland?
 Sencere wishes to Dr Binayak Sen.
It is ironic that those who self admittedly ferried weapons from Pakistan to indulge in mayme & wage a war against India are free - are even being chauffeured around by some on this forum ........'hope justice is done in his case.
Regards all
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> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:39:53 +0530> From: pkray11 at gmail.com> To: reader-list at sarai.net> Subject: [Reader-list] New Year message from Dr Binayak Sen> > Dear all,> > This is New Year message from Dr Binayak Sen> > Prakash> > This New Years' message was hand-written in jail by Dr Binayak Sen for> the MFC and JSS groups. Ilina Sen (who transcribed and emailed) has> given permission for it to be forwarded to us as well.> > Mary Ganguli> > ---------------------------------------------> Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:32 AM> Subject: mfc> > > My warmest greetings to all friends in the MFC, and best wishes for> 2009.> > As an Indian child of parents from the territory that is now> Bangladesh, displacement was a lived reality for me from my> childhood, as it was for millions of other children of my generation.> But then, in so many ways, the history of the last 500 years (1492 is> a useful reference date), is the history of successive waves of> displacement- either as displacement from as in the case of the native> Americans, or displacement to, as in the case of slave labour from> Africa or India. A particularly gruesome episode is being played out> before our eyes in Palestine. The NBA brought the issue of> displacement into the mainstream of Indian public discourse. In> Chhattisgarh, seasonal migration provides an example of large scale> displacement, and a particularly iconic experience was watching a> young migrant mother lying on the floor of a train while her baby> slowly dehydrated from gastroenteritis. The Salwa Judum in Bastar> has displaced huge numbers of people at gunpoint, and over 100,000> people have been pushed over the border into Andhra Pradesh.> > In China today, 100 million people are in the process of being> displaced by the Three gorges dam and other projects. As usual, in> India, we go one better.The redoubtable Prof Swaminathan has chaired a> committee that has concluded that Indian agriculture can accommodate> at most a third of its population in agriculture, as opposed to half> as at present.. The difference is a small matter of 200 million> people.> > Displacement is about the sequestration of privileged access to> resources and need not always involve a geographical reference. Thus,> the chronic nutritional deprivation from which half our children and> a third of our adults suffer can be regarded as a special form of> displacement. What displacement invariably does entail is the> ruthless cutting short of the micro evolutionary process involved in> any instance of eco adaptation, involving chemical or physical> factors as in Bhopal, or the social environment as in south Bastar.> > That's enough. Too bad I can't take part. All the best for your> deliberations.. Choose your politics before your politics chooses> you.> _________________________________________> reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city.> Critiques & Collaborations> To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in the subject header.> To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/>
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