ey bhabe kaaj hoye na: notes of radicalism

by Rahul Bhattacharya on Thursday, 7 June 2012 at 14:30 ·

3 short notes on politics:

Note 1 -     open your mouth

• Why do i dislike events that ask substantial participation fees from artists? 
• a person who occupies a hyper masculine position and has made a reputation for himself by shouting out radicalism from the top of his blog....suddenly becomes the face a proposed art fair which is luring artists with promises of buyers and collectors.  
• somehow the website does not look convincing at all...except for the miniscule stall space, no other grand promise made in the promotional cocktail dinners seem to be legally accountable.
• everyday i get flooded with phone calls from artists asking me whether they should partcipate or not...why is there so much confusion
• radicalism for sham or for sale angers me the most...but the real concern is that friends should not get cheated. 
• why are artists in india so vurnerable to manupulation...and why are historians so spineless

Note 2 -   didi and dilemas

• there is a historyof attacks against women chief ministers by mainstream press...
• Till Buddadev was even marginaly defendable he was the darling of the media and mainstream
• mamata occupies the left which was vacated by the CPI(M) as the party moved towards a neo liberal centerist position.
• it is this neo liberalism that the indian mainstrem was celebrating...and it is this natinal recognition that made Buddadev the icon for the bangali bhadralok
• Mamata didi does not care about the bhadralok  and our notion of ethics.Even if it a bad thing...is it really the worst thing to happen to west bengal
• looking at international reactions to Greek and French elections, we see that the global mainstrem has an aversion to the left
• large geo political forces are deeply destabilised by Mamata's more left than left positioning
• almost all mainsterm media houses have a corporate finance strucure
• Mamata's behaviour is really not defendable...but the time is maybe not right to isolate her....larger battles are at stake
• We the bhadralok need to decide how elitist we want to be.
• it is dangerous to see that attacking mamta is becoming the hallmark of radicalism in urban bengal

Note 3-     Deep blue sea

• commonsense tells me that the debate is between rats and cockroaches. both can have equal claim to be the real masters of the world. (cockroaches have even enslaved human beings to make houses and garbage).  but when i zoom out of my commonsense, i realise that real battle is between the devil and the deep blue sea.