[Reader-list] 6 Questions for Vedavati

[Prashant Pandey]

hi
guys decide for urself what does "us" means for u ? 
does it mean... "us" as in  "us and them "  or "us" as in meaning what belongs to everybody (hamara...hum sabka and so on ) 
its sad that for a lot of people here "us" means an exclusive group big or small pitted against another group big or small ...eliciting a well intended but  very stock response. 
  


On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 shivam wrote :
>To add to what Khadeeja is saying, a major problem with us when we
>talk about The Muslims is that we see them as a monolith. There is so
>much fragmentation within India's "Muslims" - on regional, caste and
>class basis. The kebabs, Khans and the tennis player belong to India,
>to all of us, and are not an exclusive product of The Muslims.
>
>On 7/25/05, Manosh Chowdhury <manoshchowdhury at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Khadeeja,   "And friends, Muslims in India can be represented beyond
> > 'Kababs', 'three Khans' and one Tennis player".   The statement is self
> > evident about how liberalism could reduce its subjects. I almost started
> > forgetting Ms. Jogi after reading six questions. However, by liberalism,
> > roughly I indend to conceive a comprehensive package of what is propagated
> > as secularism , democracy [that is, electoral authentication of opression in
> > many regions including Northeastern ones, with significant rotation - when
> > and where it was found to be necessary - including Punjab], womens' right
> > [as it was discovered all over the world since Laura Bush had emancipated
> > Afghan women] and the relish of Bollywood cult along with the hype of
> > consumerism. I am not much kind of a good subscriber of "freedom of
> > _expression" as such. And I feel this is being ridiculous. I hope that
> > sometimes our privileged friends would really understand that the
> > responsibility is far beyond that of just criticizing BJP and remain apart.
> >   Best  manosh
> >
> >
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