tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post6512712272986224426..comments2023-11-09T14:15:40.111+02:00Comments on Fatima and Ahmed's Son: India Jails 31 Hindus for Life for Killing MuslimsRidwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-13020546201298106342011-11-10T18:25:54.455+02:002011-11-10T18:25:54.455+02:00Thanks for the enlightenment, bro. It's time I...Thanks for the enlightenment, bro. It's time I looked at this more.Kwelihttp://kweligee.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-55724727926365086802011-11-10T08:58:16.469+02:002011-11-10T08:58:16.469+02:00Hey there Kweli thanks for your thoughts.
Giri is...Hey there Kweli thanks for your thoughts.<br /><br />Giri is right to finger the attempted erasure of diversity - at least at the state level.<br /><br />At the center of the problems in Gujarat and occupied Kashmir is Hindutva (essentialized and politicized hinduness).<br /><br />Conservative proponents of this contrived caste and class consciousness believe that India is a Hindu state/country.<br /><br />It is not a new phenomenon and speaks to India's episodes of historical colonization. <br /><br />Try to find Buddhists in India today - most of them have been obliterated by waves of Hindutva violence over decades.<br /><br />Muslims (most of them who have converted to Islam to escape casteism in Hinduism) are routinely attacked in India for much the same reason.<br /><br />The violence in Gujarat is just one such example - a more policy oriented attack is the call by Hindutva advocates to scrape Affirmative Action policies which aim to improve the impoverished condition of Muslims (and other so called scheduled classes).<br /><br />In the US there are prominent Hindutva personalities in very powerful positions and they have significant influence on policies toward the subcontinent.<br /><br />Some of them flame anti-Muslim sentiments/policies in the region.<br /><br />Obama went to India and did not say a word about Kashmir, for example.<br /><br />These problems are not new in this context and played out between Gandhi and Ambedkar and Nehru and Jinna.<br /><br />The problem is that India is anything but one country. It is like China, an empire of nationalist (imagined) proportions.<br /><br />Peace brother Kweli,<br />RidwanRidwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-8511954720597374932011-11-10T05:40:05.727+02:002011-11-10T05:40:05.727+02:00Brother, I saw this on the news this morning.
I ...Brother, I saw this on the news this morning. <br /><br />I latched on to the inequalities in India not only through Ambekdar but also by recently reading some of Saroj Giri's work (particularly on how the formation of the Indian state subsumed diversity). (I'm not so coherent today, so bear with me).<br /><br />I don't like to see our sisters and brothers in the subcontinent fighting each other.<br /><br />There are ways to peace. There must be.Kwelihttp://kweligee.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com