Here is an excerpt from a sort of promotional, or just
laudatory, article produced on the occasion of Sonal
Shah, who has just been nominated to the Transition
Team of Barack Obama, having been awarded the 'India
Abroad Person of the Year 2003' by the (international)
weekly newspaper India Abroad belonging to the stable
of the Rediff group:
Quote
"The politics aren't usually about religion. It's
usually about land or something like that. Religion is
used to create a greater disparity. In local
communities, a lot of the disputes are usually over
things that are more tangible, and it's important to
understand that."
She does, however, require that Indicorps Fellows be
as informed as possible. To that end, she has prepared
an Indicorps reader, which she is in the process of
revising.
As it currently stands, the Indicorps reader is a
solid bit of reading — three thick, photocopied
volumes and just under a thousand pages of articles,
novel excerpts, and chapters from historical texts.
The reader is ideologically diverse and includes the
works of Amartya Sen, V S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie,
Nehru, Mark Tully, and Shashi Tharoor, as well as
Sunil Khilnani, Konrad Elst, Robert Kaplan, and
Jeffrey Sachs. Asghar Ali Engineer is included, as is
the pro-Hindutva French journalist Francois Gautier's
Arise Again, O India and The Symbol of Ayodhya.
Rather than ignore any segment of the political
continuum, Sonal has embraced all of them, and
encourages her Fellows to make their own, informed
decisions.
Unquote
[Source:
http://www.indicorps.org/docs/INDIA_ABROAD_12-19-2003.pdf.]
It is significant that of the authors listed above
quite a few are known staunch adherents of the
Hindutva ideology: V S Naipaul, Mark Tully, Konrad
Elst. Kaplan is an unapologetic apologist of US Empire
over the globe.
Francois Gautier's Arise Again, O India and The Symbol
of Ayodhya are - as the titles suggest - rabble
rousing, fire spewing, pure hate stuff of the worst
variety.
On the other side of the divide all are arguably
moderates. But what would be most pertinent and
revealing is the actual selection of the
articles/pieces. That would show up the intent/bias in
much clearer light.
It'd be nice if someone could get hold of copies of
both the original and updated, if any, version(s) of
the Indicorps reader.
Sukla
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