>>late 80s-early 90s where susie tharu was just
beginning to make a name for
herself, if these things mean anything ;))<<
oh yes! they mean a lot :-)
great to hear that you are from CIEFL.
then goes without saying that you will be familiar with Srivats and the entire
Anveshi group. (Rowdy sheeters is one of my favorite essays within the
subaltern corpus. have to yet get my hands on another ciefl contribution.
ansari's essay in the latest Subaltern Studies volume XII)
by the way, i don't know any of them personally, just vaguely familiar with
some of their work.)
on the note of talking to the initiated and putting off the uninitiated, i am reminded of a very well argued
and yet restrained piece which the Anveshi group had written after a group of Dalit
students were rusticated from Hyderabad
Central University.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/03/03/stories/2002030300280100.htm
i think they had published a larger version of this in EPW. Unfortunately my
EPW log-in is acting truant, otherwise would have posted that link too...
oh yes, he exists in the flesh and blood alright. in fact, he was
with the sunday desk at the hindu (sunday magazine and the literary
review and the young world) about eight years ago (i joined the hindu
and been doing the literary since june 2000). subsequently he was with
the news desk for some time and went over to outlook about four (?)
years back.
while i share his politics (i am from ciefl, hyderabad, late 80s-early
90s where susie tharu was just beginning to make a name for
herself, if these things mean anything ;)), i do think his writing can
become self-defeating (those who do continue to read him are already on
his 'side' but he tends to put off the 'uninitiated'). not only can
writing become monotonous but also glib in the use of terminology
(jargon?) and i am not too sure about where i stand about a non-dalit
(even though a convert to buddhism) making a career out of writing
about dalits and the downtrodden. i know that raises more questions
than i'd care for and no, i am not a cynic nor a status-quoist. :)
subash
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 13:56:41 +0530,
Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> on another note, while TOI and HT might be depressing, the arrival of
> new academic imprints is quite exciting and encouraging. i am
> thinking of small, focused publishing interventions like S.Anand's
> Navayana, Three Essay's Collective...
> Is it true that S.Anand who writes in Outlook is actually a phantom
> entity and the real author is Sadanand Menon? or just some running
> journo-joke? I have always read his pieces with interest ( I remember
> the one he did on the Dalit Christian Mridangam makers of Tamilnadu,
> in the context of the cow-slaughter ban
> http://india.indymedia.org/en/2003/09/7309.shtml) . In fact, if its a
> "Dalit Story" from South in Outlook, you can be almost sure that it
> is S.Anand.
