[Reader-list] ..and these newspapers say Australians are racist

[DULALI NAG]

Very sane and very cogent argument. And such positions tend to be
politically incorrect. Keep it up.

Dulali Nag
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Karthik Natarajan <
karthik.natarajan at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi.i complete agree with you. we are racists. but i dont think its because
> jug suraiya made fun of mayawatis statue making romp. but because you were
> looking for a racist/casteist and gender-insensitive comment in a cartoon
> strip that may be a little over the top funny. i wonder if you would still
> call it racist/casteist and gender insensitive, if say advani would have
> erect these statues and the cartoon strip was made with him instead of her?
>
> the strip,, makes fun of mayawatis feeble shot at immortalizing herself in
> indian political history, by means of a series of staues. i wonder how she
> is justifying this move morally? is the state doing so well that we are
> spending obscene amounts of money on cosmetic efforts and not aesthetics. i
> dont think this wil be like the bruce lee of mostar for lucknow? <
> http://www.reason.com/news/show/33300.html>. it could have the exact
> opposite effect if that.
>
> who is to benefit from these statues? does a resident care if he sees a
> statue of a deceased/alive politician on the way to work each day? or is
> his
> life going to be better because of this move? does this help the unemployed
> and the homeless? have our politicians become this insecure of their place
> in time that they have to resort to such meaningless moves?
>
> tho' i agree with the idea that indians are racists, and we shall be
> racists, unless we stop making issues of things as trivial as cartoon
> strips, and bearded students in school and head scarves. 62 years after
> independence if we cannot focus on better things i think we should
> seriously
> rethink our strategies and more so our representatives. calling them
> leaders
> would just be demean the idea of democracy.
>
> i sincerely hope that in the future, we shall stop being so paranoid about
> such non issues and look at progress as the only issue.
>
> best,
> karthik.
>
> 2009/9/16 Sudeep K S <sudeep.ks at gmail.com>
>
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