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The Flight of the Liberals: Why are they bowing before the Chaddis?
by Guest Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:33 pm
Two RSS ideologues, who have no works of literature to their name, are set to take the stage at the Jaipur Literature Festival. But why is no one speaking up against it?....
On January 20, the Jaipur Literature Festival will debase itself as it offers its stage to Manmohan Vaidya and Dattatreya Hosabale, two members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), who have no works of literature to their name.
In conversation with them will be Pragya Tiwari, who, at least is writing a book on the Sangh Parivar, but these men have nothing to them except their membership in the “cultural organisation” that seeks to run our lives. They are not writers, editors, publishers, critics, artists, scientists, scholars or anything remotely to do with the literary world. They are merely “cultural ideologues”, apparatchiks, the PR men of a fascist cult whose core texts reject democracy, reject literary and cultural freedom and liberalism, and whose leaders – on a daily basis – question the very foundations of the Indian constitution...
But I am being too harsh. The Sangh parivar has engaged with literature – by opposing it. Whether it is asking for books by Wendy Doniger to be pulped, the browbeating of Perumal Murugan, the boycott of Pakistani artists, the harassment and murder of rationalists, all of these lead back to the Right Wing, the one that is ascendant, that we are being asked to engage with – at an occasion dedicated to discussing literature. What are we then discussing? How literature can be pruned and neutered to fit the RSS’s cultural views?...
Oh, and if you were planning on protesting in front of that other RSS man, our sainted prime minister, it might be difficult. Apparently he is so scared of black flags and protests that his security does not let a black dupatta through, much less a black sari.
https://thewire.in/101342/the-flight-of-the-liberals/
On January 20, the Jaipur Literature Festival will debase itself as it offers its stage to Manmohan Vaidya and Dattatreya Hosabale, two members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), who have no works of literature to their name.
In conversation with them will be Pragya Tiwari, who, at least is writing a book on the Sangh Parivar, but these men have nothing to them except their membership in the “cultural organisation” that seeks to run our lives. They are not writers, editors, publishers, critics, artists, scientists, scholars or anything remotely to do with the literary world. They are merely “cultural ideologues”, apparatchiks, the PR men of a fascist cult whose core texts reject democracy, reject literary and cultural freedom and liberalism, and whose leaders – on a daily basis – question the very foundations of the Indian constitution...
But I am being too harsh. The Sangh parivar has engaged with literature – by opposing it. Whether it is asking for books by Wendy Doniger to be pulped, the browbeating of Perumal Murugan, the boycott of Pakistani artists, the harassment and murder of rationalists, all of these lead back to the Right Wing, the one that is ascendant, that we are being asked to engage with – at an occasion dedicated to discussing literature. What are we then discussing? How literature can be pruned and neutered to fit the RSS’s cultural views?...
Oh, and if you were planning on protesting in front of that other RSS man, our sainted prime minister, it might be difficult. Apparently he is so scared of black flags and protests that his security does not let a black dupatta through, much less a black sari.
https://thewire.in/101342/the-flight-of-the-liberals/
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