[Reader-list] From the English daily, Kashmir Images

[Aditya Raj Baul]

So Ms Jabbar, is it like road rage?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:17 PM, SJabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could be, Jeebesh, and that IS an interesting idea, but I'm afraid the
> present is fuelled by rage and rage alone.  Not sure it can sustain itself
> beyond a point. Rage tends to burn itself out and then you land up at the
> door of the inevitable question, "what next?"  This what next is the big
> political question and implies the inevitable engaging with your enemy in a
> more sustainable way, perhaps as in a dialogue.  But dialogue on what when
> there is no consensus in the crowd about the meaning of azadi.
>
>
>
> On 31/08/10 5:37 PM, "Jeebesh" <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
>
>>
> On 31-Aug-10, at 5:23 PM, we wi wrote:
>
>> Waiting for Godot
>> Manzoor
>> Anjum
>>
>> The problem with our leadership is that instead of leading, they
>>
>> just follow
>> the crowds.
>
> Can we not think this as a problem?
>
> But as an
>> emerging reality full of potential for a possible new
> counter-politics that
>> has already disturbed the consensus and is
> striving for a new language. The
>> deep enmeshing of the "political"
> with state-power and capital is now a
>> consensus and a common-sense.
> The present " acting without leaders" maybe a
>> way out in a much deeper
>>
> way.
>
> warmly
> jeebesh
>
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