[Reader-list] Express solidarity with the people of Kashmir

[Pawan Durani]

As expected ....Lage Raho

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> The petition forwarded by Mr.Aima says -
>
>
>  We resolve that as citizens we will do all that we can to create a
>> conducive and convivial environment for restoration of normalcy in their
>> tragically disrupted lives.
>> We also pledge to build bridges of understanding to prevent the
>> communalization, brutalization and militarization of state and civil society
>> in J&K.
>>
>
> How can this be done without removing, for instance,even at a bare minimum,
> the obscenity of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act? I read the petition
> very carefully, and did not find a single concrete, or specific demand, such
> as the scrapping of the aforementioned AFSPA - a demand well within, even,
> the "framework of the Indian constitution", that a lot of people go on and
> on about. In the absence of even such minimal specificities, I can only say
> that this petition, and those who have moved it, are prime examples of what
> it means to be really patronizing. This is the kind of 'Care' that smothers
> you just as effectively as a really wet blanket, that mimics the language of
> dissent, only to actually erase it.
>
> With sympathizers like these, who needs enemies? Keep your candles, give me
> a stone.
>
> best
>
> Shuddha
>
> Shuddhabrata Sengupta
> The Sarai Programme at CSDS
> Raqs Media Collective
> shuddha at sarai.net
> www.sarai.net
> www.raqsmediacollective.net
>
>
>
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