[Reader-list] Crowds?

Thu Sep 1 21:11:01 IST 2011

We heard some tv channels and CPI(M) operatives crying foul about RSS-Maoist 
alliance during the Nandi Gram movement.
Some people who benefit from corruption would like to find any kind of dirt 
they can throw at this movement. I'm okay if Barkha Dutt is hackled by 
people tired of those who promote corruption. People may have different 
opinion about it, but Gopinath Munde is as hacklable as any other politician 
trying to infultrate a movement that has nothing to do with electoral 
politics.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeebesh" <jeebesh at sarai.net>
To: "Reader List" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Crowds?

> "Not so elementary Watson, do not jump to conclusions". This remains  good 
> advise from Mr.Holmes.
>
> If i was in RSS, i would be super happy with reports like these.  Shakhas 
> (neighbourhood gatherings) have dwindled. The uniform looks  archaic. 
> Membership falling. Some members and linkages mired in mutual  killing and 
> terrorism. Etc. And here come passionate secularists who  bloat the image 
> of powerful presence and added to that a mass  organizer. Superb. What 
> cultural intelligence.!!
>
>
> On 01-Sep-11, at 9:25 AM, Tapas Ray [Gmail] wrote:
>
>> Not exactly new, but worth repeating, as it's worth remembering --
>>
>> http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/is-rss-working-hard-for-affiliation-with-anna-130483
>>
>> Is RSS working hard for affiliation with Anna?
>>
>> Rahul Shrivastava‎, Updated: September 01, 2011 00:31 IST
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Through some visible and not so visible moves the RSS has tried to
>> associate itself to Anna's campaign.
>> On Tuesday, Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the BJP's parent body made a
>> rare public appearance in Pune and said that "people were just fed up
>> of corruption and they had no one to look up to and then came Anna's
>> agitation which restored people's faith and also gave a boost to their
>> confidence."
>>
>> Less than a fortnight ago the RSS top brass had met in Ujjain and
>> cleared a 'Support Anna' resolution. Spurred by this BJP's Nitin
>> Gadkari wrote to Anna, pledging his support.
>>
>> Old RSS hand and ex BJP Delhi Unit Chief Mangeram Garg - was heading
>> the Sangh's "ops-room".
>> At Ramlila Maidan, Anna's home during his 12 day fast, Sangh
>> affiliates posted hundreds of men in the crowd, who could be
>> identified by their chant of Vande Mataram.
>>
>>
>> Read more at: 
>> http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/is-rss-working-hard-for-affiliation-with-anna-130483&cp
>>
>> Kumar Vishwas, once a senior man within the RSS, was Anna's stage
>> manager at Ramlila Maidan and was often seen reciting poems and
>> introducing guests on stage. Coincidentally Vishwas was the stage
>> manager for Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev's aborted protests too.
>>
>> Tejinder Pal of the Party's Yuva Morcha, which is the youth wing of
>> the BJP helped mobilize those who protested outside the homes of
>> Congress leaders to signal their dissastisfaction.
>>
>> The free meals that were a big draw at Ramlila Madian were funded. by
>> the RSS' affiliate Goraksha (save the cow) unit.
>>
>> But the RSS kept its involvement discrete.  Anna insulated his
>> protests from the saffron taint by forbidding right-or left wing
>> leader from sharing the stage with him.  In fact two BJP MPs who
>> visited Ramlila Maidan - Ananth Kumar and Gopinath Munde- to express
>> solidarity to Anna - were heckled by the crowd.
>>
>> Team Anna opted to ignore the presence of RSS ranks among the
>> protestors and the criticism it drew.
>>
>> "There was no direct financial support from the RSS to IAC (India
>> Against Corruption movement).  There were no direct links with them or
>> to funding, but they could well be part of the thousands and lakhs of
>> volunteers who were helping with food ...and there's nothing wrong
>> with that," said one of Anna's closest associates, Prashant Bhushan.
>>
>> Anna has warned that he has other causes - like electoral reforms for
>> which he plans to campaign.  By affiliating closely with Anna, the RSS
>> and the BJP are hoping to gain political points as key states like UP
>> get ready to vote.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 31 August 2011 12:02, Jeebesh <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
>>> 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
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