[Reader-list] Crowds?

[Jeebesh]

Perplexing why Partha Chatterjee (all entangled in corruption), Arjun  
Appadurai (fascist gathering), Arundhati Roy (came for reality show)  
in their argument against the stage/studio so contemptuous of the  
crowd. As if the connection between the crowd and stage is cemented.  
Is there no way to read excess, overflow, disconnect, escape in the  
relation of crowd to the stage? No fear of the Hydra headed crowd in  
the stage/studio?

In Manesar Maruti factory the management has decided to get a "Good  
Conduct" agreement signed by each worker before they enter the  
factory. The conduct is to not engage in slow down, sit in, tampering,  
spanner in the wheel, etc. It is said that few of the workers went to  
the Ramila Grounds and cam back saying that they will sit on an  
"anshan". The management panicked and set up a 300 strong police post  
inside the factory. The 11 day sit in inside the factory in June is  
the background to this drastic move by the management.

warmly
jeebesh