[Reader-list] Crowds?

[Tapas Ray [Gmail]]

OK. No problem.

Tapas

On 4 September 2011 11:25, Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in> wrote:
> Tapas,
>
> No intention to send you only. Actually replied you with cc to list could not gone due to net problem and then stored in draft. But after I sent again to you but forgot cc which was sent separately to list
>
> That link also I have sent comment. Resret it was not intentional to send only you.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tapas Ray [Gmail] [mailto:tapasrayx at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 7:46 AM
> To: Bipin Trivedi
> Cc: reader-list
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Crowds?
>
> Bipin,
>
> The Times of India article to which you seem to refer, was posted by
> me on the list. It was not sent to you individually. Therefore, your
> response should have been posted on the list, not in an email
> addressed only to me. This might have been inadvertent - you might
> have clicked 'reply' though you really intended to click 'reply all'.
> But if it wasn't, i.e., if you intentionally wrote only to me, I must
> request you to desist in future.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tapas
>
>
> On 03/09/2011, Bipin Trivedi <aliens at dataone.in> wrote:
>> Everyone has right to support fight against corruption irrespective of any
>> organization. So, RSS/BJP has also equal right to give support whoever
>> initiate it. So why some folks have grudges to it. It is shame that many
>> pseudo-secular trying to give it communal angle. However, nothing new to it
>> since for that reason only they are pseudo-secular!
>>
>> Thanks
>> Bipin Trivedi
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: reader-list-bounces at sarai.net [mailto:reader-list-bounces at sarai.net]
>> On Behalf Of Tapas Ray [Gmail]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 9:25 AM
>> To: Reader List
>> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Crowds?
>>
>> 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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