tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post7146536244253841878..comments2023-11-02T19:19:15.129+05:30Comments on Death Ends Fun: 26thDilip D'Souzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08221707482541503243noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-78887661496778231782009-01-31T18:46:00.000+05:302009-01-31T18:46:00.000+05:30WELL ITS REALLY A GOOD THAT A PERSON SHOULD BE PAT...WELL ITS REALLY A GOOD THAT A PERSON SHOULD BE PATRIOTIC AND THEIR IS NOTHING TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE A PATRIOTIC PERSON.WELL NICE THINGS YOU HAVE WRITE ABOUT IT.KEEP IT UP<BR/><A HREF="http://nodahej.com" REL="nofollow">http://nodahej.com</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-4249300667230492902009-01-29T13:03:00.000+05:302009-01-29T13:03:00.000+05:30Thanks Dilip. Yes, I did mean the regular column a...Thanks Dilip. <BR/><BR/>Yes, I did mean the regular column actually. What I do remember of those days was the space that was provided for every "ism" to flourish even if some of the right wing bile got too much to digest after a point. Case in point: Varsha Bhosle. :-)<BR/><BR/>I take your point on Gandhi and I think that was clearly where the article lost its relevance for me too. Gandhi can be blamed for being quaint in his views and Ambedkar's stand is perfectly justified too but the attempt to somehow paint him as wily or diabolical, I am not sure I can subscribe to that theory one bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-82049256205652453962009-01-29T11:54:00.000+05:302009-01-29T11:54:00.000+05:30Thank you, Vistasp, for your kind words. the Sunda...Thank you, Vistasp, for your kind words. the Sunday Observer! Now there's a memory from many years ago. I do write in various places -- HT, travel mags, Asian Age recently, etc -- but I've not done a regular column for a while on purpose, and I've been trying to cut back anyway so I can finish a larger project.<BR/><BR/>I read Anand's article in Tehelka, and it has created some waves already. Yes, he does make some interesting points. But I think the thing about Gandhi is that we can take and learn what we want from him. For example, I think his advice to the Jews of Nazi Germany was stupid. His attitude towards caste naturally angered Ambedkar, as Anand explains. But does all that mean we cannot learn from his political and moral courage in other directions?<BR/><BR/>So yes, there's a tokenism to so many of our protest actions. Yes, the cellular silence campaign might have ventured further in various ways. Yet I think there's a value to getting the word out that there are people who are angered by certain events, and they will raise their voice in some form. I think that's one lesson from Gandhi.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again.Dilip D'Souzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221707482541503243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-56475441550151605202009-01-28T17:06:00.000+05:302009-01-28T17:06:00.000+05:30Dilip: You were easily one of my favourite columni...Dilip: You were easily one of my favourite columnists back in the days of The Sunday Observer and I am so happy to find your blog on the net because you don't seem to be appearing in mainstream publications any longer (or maybe I do not subscribe to the publications you write in). I was much younger then (or maybe as Dylan says: I was so much older then, I am younger than that now....) <BR/><BR/>I share your absolute revulsion of Modi and the halo that the rather respectable section of our corporate world has for him but I confess I too did not deem it fit to sign the petition. For one, I am a bit tired of well-meaning tokenisms which don't move even a small mound of sand, leave alone heaven and earth. Also, I feel a bit defeated because most people I converse with seem to have bought into the Modification process completely; especially the State I come from - Garvi Gujarat. <BR/><BR/>Have you read the piece by S Anand in the recent issue of Tehelka critiquing the petition? Not that I entirely agree with it, but it makes for an absorbing conversation. The parts about Gandhi leave me rather cold, but I would love to know your take on it. <BR/><BR/>Here's the link: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=Op310109misleading_gandhigiri.asp<BR/><BR/>Vistasp Hodiwala<BR/>MumbaiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-52556330637668318652009-01-28T09:06:00.000+05:302009-01-28T09:06:00.000+05:30Are you being ambiguous on purpose?Maybe, maybe no...<I>Are you being ambiguous on purpose?</I><BR/><BR/>Maybe, maybe not.<BR/><BR/>More seriously. When someone who fails the citizens who elect him is called on to unfurl the flag, it seems to me something is skewed.<BR/><BR/>Vasavadatta, I liked that shot too. I had focused on the tomatoes for a long time, hoping the vendor would do something to them to make it more interesting. Just when I was about to give up, someone came along and asked for tomatos, and he reached for them. Just lucky.Dilip D'Souzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221707482541503243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-85445810033331900492009-01-28T08:53:00.000+05:302009-01-28T08:53:00.000+05:30I agree, in a way, to what you say. Independence d...I agree, in a way, to what you say. Independence day and republic day seem to be the only two days we all get so openly "patriotic". Those who slept through the early morning flag hoisting ceremony in my college were instantly labeled "unpatriotic". The cynic in me couldn't help but notice all this.<BR/><BR/>Waise I commented to tell you I really like the pic on your blog header.Vasavadattahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12562190586664316488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-74263865070811032062009-01-28T06:25:00.000+05:302009-01-28T06:25:00.000+05:30You say " ... but if this man was going to be unfu...You say " ... but if this man was going to be unfurling this flag, I wanted nothing to do with it."<BR/><BR/>Why are you abandoning the flag because of the politician? Or are you abandoning the "ceremony" of unfurling the flag?<BR/><BR/>Are you being ambiguous on purpose?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-26655013860369301472009-01-27T11:57:00.000+05:302009-01-27T11:57:00.000+05:30Hi Dilip,Touching! I too sang the anthem twice in ...Hi Dilip,<BR/><BR/>Touching! I too sang the anthem twice in the past few days. It reminds us of the sacrifices that men like Tukaram Ombale and Karkare and Kamte made. At least we shouldn't let them or their memmory down.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12219760381898565039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-91028391425269075782009-01-26T13:27:00.000+05:302009-01-26T13:27:00.000+05:30Worry not, my love for you is beyond your attempts...Worry not, my love for you is beyond your attempts -- at humor or otherwise.Niluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05054901897580784793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-38916115099437236492009-01-26T13:06:00.000+05:302009-01-26T13:06:00.000+05:30Pussycat, this one time only you get a response, n...Pussycat, this one time only you get a response, never again. <BR/><BR/>I'm wholly uninterested in proving my patriotism. Not least, because I don't believe you prove patriotism by either singing a song or writing about singing a song. If you cared to look, darling, you'd have found a hint of that in this account. A small hint, but there nevertheless, and that was, sort of, the point.<BR/><BR/>Pity you missed it, honeybun, but there you are.Dilip D'Souzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08221707482541503243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070362.post-13836721130728861632009-01-26T12:39:00.000+05:302009-01-26T12:39:00.000+05:30Sweetheart, it's alright. You don't have to prove ...Sweetheart, it's alright. You don't have to prove your patriotism just because you are some Abrahamic book following person. However traumatic it may be.Niluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05054901897580784793noreply@blogger.com