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"She's right, you know, you are obsessed," Bane growled at him and he opened his eyes again, staring at the wall.
"Shut up," he muttered. Bane snapped at him wordlessly and fell silent again, dragging Lazarus into sleep.
"I'm going to the music shop in the city... you gonna come?" he asked through a lungful of smoke as he looked for his wallet.
"Uh... no," she paused, "thank you." He sighed, knowing she was still annoyed at him. He had been considering not bothering before, but now he was going just to get out of the house. Nodding to himself, he mumbled an "okay" and remembered his wallet was in the bedroom. He found it, shoved it in his pocket and picked up Melissa's rosary and Gabriel's ring, putting them in his other pocket, more out of habit by now than anything, though today, he looked at the rosary for a moment, letting out another sigh.
She curled up on the sofa like a dog and tucked her head into her side, "Good bye, Lazarus," she muttered, not realising he wasn't leaving yet. He gritted his teeth, pushing the rosary into his pocket on top of the ring and cursed inwardly.
"Alright, alright, I know when I'm not wanted," he muttered walking back through the living room, "I'll see you later. I've got work again tonight, I'll be home late."
"I'll...I'll try and be there," she mumbled and he shrugged, though she wasn't looking.
"Okay. See ya," he said, opening the door to leave.
"Wait," she whimpered. He paused and turned, looking at her. She slowly rose, not meeting his eyes instead looking at the floor, "I'm sorry."
"Whatever for?" he queried.
"For, last night. I, I didn't mean to turn it into such a horrible moment."
"Oh. It doesn't matter. I shouldn't be such a sex obsessed idiot."
"No, it's me. I'm four hundred years old and the subject's still tender for me. I want to... indulge more but, I'm still embarrassed," she whispered, still looking at the floor. He waved his hand dismissively and walked back into the apartment, kicking the door shut again and stubbing his cigarette out in the ashtray.
"It's fine. We were brought up to see sex completely differently; I forget sometimes. I'll be more sensitive about it next time," he promised, offering his arms for a hug.
"But... I don't want to be," she sighed, taking him up on his offer, her arms twining round his waist as she turned her head to rest it on his chest, her ear pressed to his heart to calm her down. He held his arms loosely around her body.
"I guess it just takes time," he shrugged.
"Four hundred years is a very long time," she stated plainly and almost angrily. He nodded.
"Yeah, but it's not like you were thinking about sex much while you were running away from your father... well maybe you were," he sighed, "what do I know?"
"You know me well enough... but, I saw my fair share of whores and brothels of every type, I travelled the whole world. But I was never ready to bring myself down to that level although it was so tempting and they seemed so interested in me. It took a lot to save my body."
"I can imagine," he mumbled, remembering how the whore houses seemed to be magnetised, always pulling him back.
She sighed, "But I saw it all and, it allowed my fantasies to grow. I'm embarrassed by it still, but even as a vampire I wanted so much to fall into every pleasure of the flesh." She paused, "It was so enticing and I am curious still now."
"Well you know I'm more than capable of fulfilling any sex fantasies you might have," he muttered, "there's no need to be embarrassed of them, after all."
"Of course there is, I don't want to become like the prostitutes on street corners, looking for money for drugs. I don't want my body to become a useless pile of flesh for anybody to 'climb on.'" She shuddered and he rolled his eyes.
"That's hardly gonna happen, Melissa. Fulfilling a fantasy with your husband isn't going to turn you into a whore."
She smiled weakly, looking up but not so his pulse left the music in her mind, "Of course, how silly I was." He pushed a comforting smile to his lips, kissing her forehead gently. "I should let you go," she sighed, "but come back soon, husband," she savoured the word, embraced it; it was new to her and she loved it.
"You can come with me if you want," he offered.
"No, I need to see if I can get some peace in my mind, Amber's driving me nuts." He nodded and brushed his lips on hers softly.
"Mmm. Good luck with that," he murmured.
"Yes, I'll definitely need it, now go and come back with some sweet music, my love." He gave her a gentle squeeze before letting go of her.
"I will. See you later."
"Yeah," she nodded as he opened the door. He smiled and closed the door behind him gently, lighting another cigarette as he walked out into the hot sunlight.


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In India, the political is everywhere, the space for the neutral has shrunk
Everything is political in India right now. Simple pleasures are tinged with the political. Conversations, amplified and intermingled with digital social interactions, are no longer linear but imbued with multiple meanings. For instance, I befriend someone I nod at on my regular evening walks. I think this person is nice. We become Facebook friends. On FB, I find this personal has a radically opposing political stand than mine. Our evening conversations become strained. I am no longer able to separate the political from the personal. I'm suspicious about a (probably) innocent comment by the said friend about her house help's ethnicity, for instance. I'm questioning her motivations even as I nod and listen to her. Mentally, I'm wondering if I should change my walking routine!
I'm sure this has happened to many of my friends in India. This inability to separate what used to be separate worlds for many of us middle class folks has brought an element of stress into everyday life.
This is to be expected. The spectacular rise of the BJP on the back of Modi's popularity is rewriting the script for how we live our lives. The political thinking of our parents' generation was dominated by post-Independence thinking and the enormous footprint of the Congress party (whether they were supporters or opposers). Young folks today are looking for change and novelty. They are accepting that the BJP is here to stay and falling in line with its new script.
For folks like me, in their 40s with a political sensibility that is part-old and part-recent, these are confusing times. Personally, I am well aware of the dangers of echo chambers. As a researcher, the easy trap of preaching to the converted is something we discuss all the time. I am used to analyzing my own speech, writing, behaviour and I put everything under the scanner.
Even so, I am deeply uncomfortable about this point we seem to have reached, when facts are junked almost entirely and we seem consumed by the political narrative. We forget that it is change driven by evidence that will eventually drive policy, innovation and investment, the factors we need to evolve, become economically stronger and deliver a better life for India's people.
As Kaushik Basu points out in his recent piece Look at the facts of demonetisation, Modi's 'master stroke' is a perfect example of a move that has been a total failure in its own stated objectives, but yet touted repeatedly as a success by a political establishment that seems to have simply erased the word failure from its vocabulary. I would be perfectly ok if they said something like: We tried our best. It did not work out as planned. I would be happy to admire the immense boldness of the move if the analysis of its outcomes were honest.
But the politics of today does not allow me to take a nuanced position. It does not allow me to be neutral if I am not also silent. For example, the critique of demonetisation offered by my colleagues and me (read our two opinion pieces here and here and listen to our podcast here), for instance, was read by several as anti-Modi anti-BJP rather than an honest analysis of what we observed in our research. Those who engaged with the content were rarely our critics, but there were many who judged us by the titles of what we wrote. There were those who refused to engage, insisting on slotting us into a particular narrow political spectrum.
Why is it that we have become so averse to complexity? Why does everything now have to be black or white, yes or no, aar ya paar? For a nation full of fence sitters, why is being politically non-aligned, or simply cautious, now a cardinal sin?
Fascinating chats with kids and a confrontation with misogyny
I've always been fascinated about the trajectories of everyday conversations. This morning, Aadyaa complained about the days getting shorter and we started talking about the forces and mechanisms of nature. That you can't pick what you want, it's a package deal!
That reminded me of Ingapirca (watch out for that post, coming soon!), an Inka ruin I visited in Ecuador where the intimate knowledge developed about solar and lunar cycles was evident. I commented on how amazing it was that man had learnt so much through observation and analysis even very far back in time. Udai, whose grade 7 history syllabus includes the European Middle Ages, reminded me that medieval Europe, to the contrary, went through a 'dark' period in which science was ignored and reviled. He went on to educate me about how he saw rationalism and empiricism as the two main approaches to scientific thinking.
The jump to present day politics in our conversation was inevitable. Is the rejection of rational thought as seen in majoritarian political behaviour the world over (especially in the use of unsubstantiated information as part of a communication strategy) part of a cyclical process? Could poor basic education that does not grant people the ability to engage with content, leavealone have an independent opinion, be part of the problem? Has credibility in post colonial India been (wrongly) built on status, class and the ability to speak English instead of facts? And is a backlash against liberal intellectuals about a re-evaluation of whether these attributes constitute credibility or is it built on something entirely different like effective communication that feeds into people's fears?
By this time, the kids were in a contemplative mode, realising just how privileged they were to be in a good school, where standards of education are high and teachers competent. The bus arrived and they left.
When I got back home and checked my social media feed, an abusive comment from an acquaintance on a post that critiques India's recent demonetisation policy brought home to me that we are fighting a very real war, one which is fuelled by resentment against those who are capable of providing the empirical evidence. Combined with an odious level of misogyny and low self-confidence, rendering those with an opinion legitimate targets of abuse. Especially if they are women.
Not a nuisance but an opportunity to include: Why you need to rethink your opinions on the kaawad yatra
For the last many years, I've been fascinated with the annual kaawad yatra, which takes place during the saawan month of the Hindu calendar and involves the transport of holy waters from the Ganga in Hardwar back home by pilgrims usually on foot (more here). Its a tough pilgrimage. Watching the yatris rest at the end of a long day of walking at the makeshift camps that local communities erect along the entire route, I've often admired their resilience and also the growing number of women yatris. I've observed them bandage each others tired, swollen and cracked feet. I've seen communities volunteering to cook, clean and heal yatris. I've even smiled at their obvious enjoyment of the music blaring out of speakers, as I've watched them dance and sing in camaraderie and joy closer to the completion of the arduous journey. To me, the kaawad yatra has always been a demonstration of India's multiple faith-linked traditions that have the power to bring people together in a continuance of age old traditions.
For the educated classes behind the wheels of their motor vehicles, though, the kaawads are another word for traffic hold ups, mayhem and chaos that compounds the water logging caused by incessant rain and poor drainage each year. It's an inconvenience, an injunction into the (imagined) smooth functioning of their lives. Its a faith system they don't understand, even though many among them are deeply religious.
This divide and the vitriol towards the kaawadiyas was brought home to me last evening. I was driving and a friend's daughter, all of eight-years old, pointed out to a truck full of kaawadiyas and declared, with much feeling that she hates them! Hate? I was taken aback and I asked her why, were they not entitled to celebrate the completion of their yatra? And her response was something entirely unexpected: "They don't wear clothes!," the little girl told me. "See, that man is only wearing those short orange shorts!"
A different kind of yatra: The influence of money and power
The transformation of the kaawad yatra itself, in the past few years, from a low key humble affair to a loud, rambunctious public party is partly responsible for the perceptions that this young girl and a large section of elite urban society. Clearly there is more money in the yatra business now, perhaps in reflection of a more affluent rural and small town middle class. The camps have grown larger, the music louder, the trucks of enthusiastic and often rowdy yatris and supporters are ubiquitous. In the past, State-sponsored protections like traffic cordons to create safe passage were a response to the unfortunate deaths of kaawadiyas in motor accidents. Today, youth in motor cycles and trucks break traffic rules with impunity in the name of religion. The little girl's comment on how the yatris are dressed is also telling. A display of hyper masculine behavior is not only hurtful to urbane sensibilities but frankly threatening as well!
The farcical liberalism of the urban elite
On the other hand, the educated elite does not usually bother to learn more about the yatra itself. I know from my interactions with villagers in and around Gurgaon, that the yatra is deeply symbolic to these communities. It is taken with a sense of duty; it is also a means for young people to take a small holiday and earn brownie points in the process. There is also some bit of harmless competition among groups in the village on who gets back the holy waters first.
Plug the gap or prepare to be drowned
It is this big gap between the two Indias that is immensely disturbing to me. The divide of the rural and urban, the chasm between the educated well-heeled and well-traveled elite and the homegrown upwardly mobile middle classes, the totally different perceptions of the pretend liberals and the deep-rooted faith systems of the more rooted-to-the-land populations. All this is exacerbated by urban planning that puts the elite into 'safe' gated communities and 'others' those who tilled the very lands on which these gated complexes are built!
We need a new movement here to bridge this gaping chasm that threatens to destroy the very fabric of our society. We talk about tolerance in our cozy drawing rooms, but we do not even understand the meaning of the world when we say hateful things that our children reproduce without understanding what they are saying. We need to start with understanding the traditions of our land and respecting them for what they are, even as we call out those who break the law and those who protect these detractors. We need to broaden our definition of community to include people from different classes. What stops the kaawad yatra organizing committees from reaching out to RWAs to contribute and collaborate in offering shelter to the yatris, as a gesture of humanity? Maybe this will lead to better ideas on how to resolve traffic snarls and conflicts of interest? What stops the police and local governments from running awareness campaigns that create empathy towards the yatris and use this enhance sense of pride to request them to remain within the law?
Of course, my comments could well be dismissed as naive. Many will say that I am deliberately leaving out the realities that confront us: the rise of the right wing that grants additional immunity to Hindu religious groups at this time, the alignment of local law enforcers with local communities that permits them to look the other way like we saw during Haryana's infamous Jat quota agitation, the politicization of religion as seen in the capital that is now blatantly on display during the yatra. I admit there might be truth in all of this, but we must also admit that the insensitivity exists on both sides. If we do not bring empathy into the mix at this point, these conflicts will only get worse. We owe it to our children to speak a different language: one that opens the doors instead of slamming them shut; one that seeks to learn more before pronouncing opinions; one that celebrates diversity and shuns the idea of homogeneity that dangerously pervades our social lives; one that, in the true tradition of this land, refrains from violence seeks to include and find solutions through consensus.
Of Gurgaon and Gurugram: Nay to shouting matches, yay to meaningful debate
Gurgaon's renaming has come as a bolt from the blue for most people I know. I've been a resident of Gurgaon for over 12 years and many of my friends have lived here longer. It isn't just shock, it is also disappointment and anger at the government's decision to focus on something cosmetic like a name change when so much meaningful action needed to take place. Others worry about the sheer cost incurred in changing an address. Still others are raising the issue of identity and the right of citizens to be consulted before such decisions are taken. But then that's the thing….. who is considered a citizen worth consulting? how is the consulting done? The Devil is truly in the details. Even as an online petition is floated by a dear friend requesting the CM to hold widespread citizen consultations before the decision goes up the the State Cabinet and the Union Home Ministry (link to petition here, news item about it here), it comes to light that in 2014 a zealous Gurgaon councillor has already done the requisite consultation and got a slew of people to participate in a signature campaign to reclaim the honour of the city and call it Gurugram!
The resolution passed by the municipality in 2014 is the basis for the recent renaming and it is clear from social media feeds that people are divided on the issue. For every person who raises rational arguments related to cost or prioritization, there is someone sold on the idea of reclaiming a glorious past. In all this Veena Oldenburg's argument about the symbolism of honouring Dronacharya is worth a mention. Dronacharya is infamous for demanding Eklavya's right thumb as gurudakshina, thus ensuring the socially disadvantaged but talented Eklavya could not rival his royal protege, famous Mahabharata warrior Arjun.
And so, while I am all for taking pride in history, we must think about what that history implies. Whose history is important? What symbols are we glorifying and what do they say about us as a people today? What pains me is that no one is thinking and talking about the issues. There seems to be no space for an open and vibrant debate. Not even on social media, which should enable dialogue instead of becoming the site of abusive shouting matches. Unless we create and nurture spaces of discussion and debate, how do we raise a new generation of creative and enlightened individuals? I wonder….
The guru shishya parampara has lessons for modern education systems
Several scholars and social commentators are making the link between the rising tide of overt nationalism and a discomfort over the democratic nature of some educational spaces in India today. Janaki Nair, the feminist and historian from JNU, wrote yesterday in The Hindu that:
"The moral panic that has gripped large sections of the Indian public is… related to the fears about the democratising opportunities offered by campuses today. In this expression of outrage, the newly moralising Right ….. aims to replace critical thinking with worship, forms of hard-won equality with structures of deference, and forms of new community-building with a return to the ideal of the patriarchal "family"."
She goes on to cite an example that is a bit uncomfortable for me. She sees in the Indian Council of Historical Research's program to institute fellowships that will foster a Guru-Shishya parampara a patriarchal design. She says that shishyas will be tied in "a relationship of obedience and honour, rather than thinking and debating". She sees this as a problem.
While I buy her point about the important place of critique and question in the process of learning (refer my earlier post on this issue), I'm not sure her understanding of guru shishya parampara is accurate. I'm no authority on the subject, but I've been a shishya, first of Hindustani classical music for many years and in recent years of kathak. In these years, I've interacted with many gurus and shishyas, heard many stories of how the gurus learnt and experienced first hand the complexity of this relationship and my comments are limited to the learning of the performing arts.
The relationship between the guru and shishya has some prescribed rules. Broadly, the shishya is expected to train rigorously and usually has limited freedom until this period of training is completed. This period may vary. Modern gurus permit their shishyas to perform in public much earlier than what was the norm a generation ago. Once the shishya is past her training period, she is not only free to make her own adaptations and improvisations to her art but is in fact expected to do so, while taking the traditions of her guru and gharana forward. A good guru will appreciate out of the box thinking, though the tolerance to deviating from the gharana's essential style may vary. In the classical arts, learning is a lifelong process. In the traditional form of the gurukul, theoretical training involved both reading and debates among students and with the guru. The education was not designed to be a one-way dictatorial process and Prof Nair seems to imagine, though the status of the guru was (and is) undoubtedly exalted, with respected to her many years of rigorous sadhna and the exalted knowledge derived from this.
There are many positives to this model in my view – a long period of sustained interaction, an expectation of commitment, peer-to-peer learning and the setting of high standards. I do not believe the guru shishya parampara is in conflict with freedom of expression or dissent; yes, it is a system in which charting your own path comes after years spent learning the basics and that is the nature of the kind of knowledge the system was designed to impart.
In today's far more transactional education system, with its short-term targets and restricted rather than expansive curriculum, the guru shishya parampara often finds itself out of sync. That I do perceive. I also feel that our dislike of religion-based politics must not blind us to the positive aspects of our traditions. And so, instead of writing it off, we must reflect on how to weave in some of its positives into our discourse on pedagogy and education.
Re-reading Bhagat Singh: Those who question and disbelieve pave the path to progress
As political parties around us continue to appropriate and re-appropriate historic figures from the past in a desperate (and despicable) attempt to reap mileage from their reflected glory, a few days ago we reflected on the idea of revisiting the writings and documentation of some of these resurrected (and often misinterpreted) heroes. Fittingly, we started this journey on Shahid Diwas, a day to mark the martyrdom of the three icons of the revolutionary side of the Indian struggle for Independence- Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev. The idea was connected to a discussion last week between Udai (my nearly 12 year old son) and my mother-in-law on atheism and belief, the chief takeaway being the importance of informed opinion that builds from a knowledge of all possible points of view, not just one's own position.
In this context, we decided to read Bhagat Singh's famous Essay titled 'Why I am an Atheist', written in October 1930 and available here in an English translation from the Punjabi original. I made Udai read it aloud to us (and several new words were learnt and discussed along the way, but that's another discussion). I hadn't read it before either and it was eye-opening. I'm sharing some excerpts that I think are particularly relevant, both to today's political situation in India and to my immediate objective of expanding the debate within our home.
Questioning the status quo
Udai's outcries against religion (and many children go through this phase) are almost always based on the idea of the lack of scientific proof that a higher omnipresent power exists. Add to that the idea of what the rational arguments could be for or against the existence of God. Bhagat Singh's passionate plea in support of his atheism, however, rests on the idea that a periodic critique of existing ideas and beliefs is the only way forward. He writes:
"It is necessary for every person who stands for progress to criticise every tenet of old beliefs. Item by item he has to challenge the efficacy of old faith. He has to analyse and understand all the details. If after rigorous reasoning, one is led to believe in any theory of philosophy, his faith is appreciated. His reasoning may be mistaken and even fallacious. But there is chance that he will be corrected because Reason is the guiding principle of his life. But belief, I should say blind belief is disastrous. It deprives a man of his understanding power and makes him reactionary.
"Any person who claims to be a realist has to challenge the truth of old beliefs. If faith cannot withstand the onslaught of reason, it collapses. After that his task should be to do the groundwork for new philosophy. This is the negative side. After that comes in the positive work in which some material of the olden times can be used to construct the pillars of new philosophy."
The corollary: When society represses the urge to question and shrinks that space, especially for young people, we also throttle the pathways to progress.
Belief in oneself despite all odds
All atheists I know have an unwavering faith in themselves, including my late father with whom long discussions on the matter of religion and belief systems were a common occurrence. It is not that they are devoid of self-doubt. On the contrary, they have no choice but to work very hard to find conviction within themselves, to question their own actions and motivations frequently and they work to re-focus themselves. It is an exhausting task!
This is because the solace of faith, in which sacrifice and good behaviour is 'rewarded' by freedom from re-birth (as in Hinduism) or the experience of paradise (as in Islam, Christianity) is not available to an atheist. Bhagat Singh points this out very clearly as he counters the allegations that atheist is born out of vanity or arrogance. Remember, he wrote this only a day or two before he was sentenced to death.
"Beliefs make it easier to go through hardships, even make them pleasant. Man can find a strong support in God and an encouraging consolation in His Name. If you have no belief in Him, then there is no alternative but to depend upon yourself. It is not child's play to stand firm on your feet amid storms and strong winds. In difficult times, vanity, if it remains, evaporates and man cannot find the courage to defy beliefs held in common esteem by the people. If he really revolts against such beliefs, we must conclude that it is not sheer vanity; he has some kind of extraordinary strength. This is exactly the situation now. First of all we all know what the judgement will be. It is to be pronounced in a week or so. I am going to sacrifice my life for a cause. What more consolation can there be!"
Some questions raised: Does your religion empower you or does it work as your crutch? Are the positions of atheism and faith contradictory or can they both find space in a broader discussion on morality, empathy and self-empowerment?
What are we learning from Bhagat Singh's martyrdom and struggle?
It is getting harder and harder to propose empathy and cooperation as strategies to wage a war that is increasingly violent, repressive and chauvinistic, be this the war on terrorism, the war of identities or the war with oneself as young people navigate the complex pathways to economic mobility and 'success'. There is no patience for this approach, which is perceived as too slow, too risky. The dangers are put forward as imminent, the solutions needed as urgent. The liberal perspective is not exciting, perceived as the bastion of those already comfortable, and run down as impractical for a nation full of impatient youth in a race to get ahead.
But think: Are the dangers we face today any different in urgency that what Bhagat Singh and Rajguru faced in the 1920s? Are the quandaries and moral dilemmas those young men found themselves in any less heart wrenching and difficult? If Bhagat Singh could question what was prevalent, so must young people today. And that is the legacy we must take forward. Not the machismo, not the 'nationalism', but the thinking and rationalism that drove it.
Mr Modi, the critics are the ones you should be talking to
It's twenty six years since Tiananmen Square today, and the concern over free speech and government repression of dissenting voices is as much as ever. Quoting from a piece in The Quartz published yesterday in the context of Tiananmen Square, something I found really relevant… "Then and now, China's senior leaders seem unable to grasp or to admit that people could both be deeply critical and deeply patriotic."
This is really the crux, isn't it? Shouldn't politics be about being able to give space to dissent without feeling insecure about it or even better, being able to channelise dissent into meaningful debates and discussions that fuel energy rather than moving to squash it at every instance? Should dissent not be interpreted as concern and interest, as a way for people to engage? Should it not be seen by governments as an opportunity to involve citizens, or at the very least as a way to know what drives or upsets people?
Yesterday's papers reported about Indian PM Modi's denouncement of communal politics, his meetings with leaders from the Muslim community. Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, whose 'go to Pakistan' edict for lovers of beef is now infamous (and which I was considerably incensed by), was present at Modi's meeting and was perhaps being chastised as well.
Modi's reticence on addressing the issues that are making minorities and liberals squirm has been widely commented upon. But it seems clear that Modi speaks up at this time because the conversation on communalism is detrimental to the one about economic development in India. He believes it is the latter that brought him to power and will keep him in the PM's seat. I cannot comment on other analysis (usually from the parties in the Opposition) that suggests that the real objective behind BJP's government is to fulfill the RSS' longstanding dream of making India a Hindu nation. But I am hoping the PM's public statements go beyond his own personal resolve and extend to creating a culture that stops pouncing on anyone who disagrees with right wing ideology.
For those who disagree are doing so because they believe in a different idea of India, not because they want to jump ship. Those who speak up are those who love their country, or at least are affected by what's happening around them. Possibly they also have ideas and imaginations that the nation could benefit from. To me, the inability of Modi to tap into this pool of interested and engaged people, many of whom voted for him perhaps hoping that they could participate in some way, would be his true failing. If he, or any other leader, could channelise this energy and enthusiasm, the possibilities could be endless.
A matter of survival: Khattar's govt must protect the Aravallis & save Gurgaon
A group of passionate environmentalists, citizen activists and some thin walls of bureaucracy stand between the bulldozers and the remaining Aravalli forests suurounding the city of Gurgaon, where I live. Successive governments have permitted the not-so gradual destruction of the Aravallis at the behest of powerful real estate developers (this latest piece in The Wire finds evidence of the alliance between Hooda-led Congress govt and DLF, for instance).
Today, the Khattar-led BJP government in Haryana has the ability to withdraw that nail in the coffin that the Congress drove in, shortly before it lost power in the State. By adding the clause 'except in urbanisable areas' to the inclusion of the Aravalli hills in the Natural Conservation Zone on Page 294 of the Sub-Regional Plan 2021 for the Harya part of the NCR, it sought to not just favor a single project or developer but in fact pave the way for a large-scale development of the Aravalli hills.
In their online petition, citizen activists have made a strong case for saving the Aravallis. In no simple words, they demand that Khattar remove the above-mentioned clause in the interests of the ecological survival of Gurgaon and Faridabad, whose rapidly dwindling water supplies depend on these forests. In my piece in The Alternative, I highlight the need for an alternate imagination that re-imagines urbanisation (and indeed tourism, industry, economic development) to include nature.
However, I'm the first to acknowledge that citizen pressure is inadequate. How do we impress upon CM Khattar that saving the city is imperative to, in the long-term, profiting from it? How do we convince politicians, who think in five-year caches, that survival is at stake here?
Going beyond that, how does a landlocked small State like Haryana re-envision its fortunes even as it milks the promise of high-profit real estate development in the shadow of the capital, Delhi? Let's not be naive, the milking is bound to happen. But certain 'hard limits' must be recognized in the interests of human survival and quality of life. And the Aravalli forests are certainly one of them!
'Go to Pakistan'! Do Indian politicians think 'Pakistan' is a dustbin?
Bunches of unwanted Indians are being sent off to Pakistan pretty often nowadays. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has conveniently asked all Indians who want to eat beef in the face of a beef ban in Maharashtra to go to Pakistan ("or Arab countries or any other part of world where it is available"). In April this year, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad requested (for the umpteenth time) all such Indians to go to Pakistan who do not agree with their policy of Hindus reproducing vehemently so that they can outnumber Muslims and correct the demographic balance. Whatever the reason for the banishment, I am baffled by this business of sending the unwanted to Pakistan!
When we were little children and the two Indo Pak wars of 1965 and 1971 were still relatively fresh in people's memory, Pakistan was a regular butt of children's (everyone's actually) jokes in India. The toilet was, in a twisted form of jest, commonly referred to as Pakistan. Every time someone suffered flatulence, they were asked to go to Pakistan!
I must have sniggered at this as a kid, but I'm no longer amused. Is Pakistan some sort of dustbin that is willing to take in unwanted and ostracized Indians, whether beef lovers or Muslims, 'seculars' or liberals? Or is Pakistan the name of something quite different in the heads of the extreme right? A place where the unwanted can simply disappear into? An equivalent of the Nazi gas chamber?
This rhetoric about Pakistan has to be explained. If any Indian who questions the Hindu right wing has to be banished, then they must spell out what they mean by such a banishment? Is the threat of Pakistan simply intended to silence dissent, a sort of replay of the Partition that will strike horror in the hearts of Indians and make us question where our loyalties lie and in the process make the naysayers appreciate India more? Or is it a more sinister threat than that?
An ode to idealism in the context of the AAP drama
Typical of my generation, I live a dangerous paradox everyday. I'm wary of idealism and yet, I'm deeply idealistic. I refused to wear the famed 'Anna topi' and participate in what I considered empty gestures. I was faintly disgusted by the candle light marches in my housing complex held in the name of the fight against corruption with young children shouting stuff they didn't understand. I did not make fun of them, though. I wondered about my position and my reluctance to embrace what seemed like a wave of idealism and change at the time. That was my wariness of idealism asserting itself.
More recently, even though I do not vote in Delhi, I was delighted to see the AAP come to power in such a conclusive manner. That was my idealism kicking in. I wish the government success in meeting the impossible (and in most part laudable) objectives they have set themselves. I hope to to play my own very little role in it too, to whatever extent possible.
However, the charges of "high command culture" leveled against CM Arvind Kejriwal disturb me immensely. Prashant Bhushan's advice to the CM to read George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' indicates in no mean terms the extreme dangers of a lack of consultation. Neither can I reconcile myself to the idea of condoning a little bit of evil for the greater common good, which is also what the CM is accused of resorting to in order to push through what he wants.
What is true and what is not, I cannot say. But the events as they are playing out strike deep and sharp nails into the coffin that idealism has climbed into and is lying, preparing to die a painful death. We may end up with a better Delhi but not, it seems, with better politicians.
Last Saturday, I watched middle school students at Pathways World School, Aravalli put together excerpts from three Shakespearean plays. They explored the idea of unbridled ambition with Macbeth and the idea of friendship with Merchant of Venice; and both of these apply to the AAP drama unfolding before us. But their perception of Julius Caesar is really applicable to the situation. Are the detractors (Cassius=Prashant Bhushan, etc) merely jealous of Caesar's (Kejriwal's) success? Or are they truly concerned with the values of democracy and equality? Does Rome (Delhi, India) really need a leader of Caesar's (Kejriwal's) appeal to stitch it together even if it means absolute power, the crowning of a King, the breaking of a tradition of democracy and replacing it with an authoritarian system? How justified are friends and supporters like Brutus (Yogendra Yadav?) in taking a stand against Caesar despite their deep sense of loyalty and friendship?
There are no clear answers, but we must think about what sort of future we envision. What have been the expectations of those who idealised/admired/supported the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement and later its conversion into AAP? Did they buy into it because they wanted better governance or because they wanted clean politics? I'd put my money on the latter, but unfortunately that doesn't look like it is going to happen.
I'm left with many disturbing questions. I cannot answer them for you, but I must try to do so for myself. Politics is a game of compromises, but which of these is acceptable and where does it cross the line? Is one kind of dirtiness is politics better than another kind? Is the end more important than the means? How does my idealist self work with and contribute to systems that are dubious and dishonest? How does my non-idealist self stay motivated to contribute if the hope of better politics lies abandoned?
Even as I mull such questions, life goes on. I eat, sleep, play, laugh. Or crib, bitch, slander and cry. And every now and then, I wonder at my place in the scheme of things.


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The 57th-ranked Kovinic, who has never surpassed the second round of a Grand Slam, won four consecutive games to snatch the second set.
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Philadelphia Union fans have endured a roller coaster off-season, first with Sebastien LeToux's trial at Bolton, then Monday's sudden departure of goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon. Now it appears that after initially thinking LeToux would wind up staying with the Union, the French striker looks set to depart.
According to Sportsnet reporter Irfaan Gaffar, the Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired LeToux from the Union in a trade that could be announced as early as Tuesday. Gaffar, who works closely with the Whitecaps home TV broadcasts, tweeted about the impending trade on late Monday evening, but offered no definitive details, suggesting that LeToux could join the Whitecaps in Arizona next week, and stating that the trade may not involve any players heading to Philadelphia.
The Vancouver-LeToux link, which was first revealed on Twitter by UK Mirror writer Alan Nixon on Monday afternoon, comes after LeToux's brief trial with English club Bolton ended without him securing a transfer. The Union have been intent on moving LeToux, who is heading into the final year of his MLS contract, and now the club looks ready to do so by shipping him within MLS for allocation money.
A LeToux move to Vancouver would also leave the Whitecaps with a logjam at forward, where the team already has Eric Hassli, Camilo Sanvezzo, 2010 MLS No. 1 overall pick Omar Salgado and 2011 MLS No. 2 overall pick Darren Mattocks. Vancouver would be hard-pressed to keep all four of those forwards if LeToux were acquired, and would have no shortage of interest for the services of each of them.
Philadelphia has enough forwards on the roster to absorb the loss of LeToux from a roster standpoint, what with Danny Mwanga, Josue Martinez, Jack McInerney and Chandler Hoffman, but the Union will now have to turn to that young group to make up for all the goal and assist production LeToux provided over the course of the past two seasons with Philadelphia.
What do you think of this development? Worried about what the Union will do now without LeToux and Mondragon? Which forward do you see Vancouver unloading to make room for LeToux.
As a Union fan, I don't mind this move. Yes, I know I must be the only person from Philly who thinks that as well.
But, as great as he was for us, you have to be objective and realize he is a 28 year old strike with a skill set that starts and ends at "runs hard." I think a lot of his massive production had to simply do with the fact he was allowed to play every minute last year – no matter how ineffective he was (and trust me, he was invisible plenty of times).
I also love that this removes the logjam at forward and allows our 3 exceptionally young and talented forwards to get playing time. I look forward to seeing our young strikers grow a lot this season and I think this move will also allow us to play a more attractive blend of soccer as well.
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was TOTALLY against this but… when ya put it that way, i guess i can see the upside. my question is how do we get Torres and Adu on the field at the same time this season? i thought Torres outplayed Freddy every time they were both on the field..
farfan torres adu
gomez, akugo
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i also predict 34 different starting line ups from Nowak this year haha
Haha yeah we still need to get past the whole 50 different lineups thing but I really like the possibilities that exist now. As for formation … I was thinking 4-3-3?
JackMac – Mwanga – Martinez
Adu – Carrol/Gomez – Torres
I say this because I have heard JackMac has been playing outside forward in the U23 camp/games and I think Martinez has played their too.
Trade Omar Salgado for Le Toux since the Whitecaps barely used him last year!
The sooner someone takes Salgado off our hands the better. I was at training this week and the lad's a world class whiner. I don't know whether it's because he doesn't want to be here or what, but his attitude sucks. Unless he gives his head a shake and realizes he's got a lot of work to do, and starts acting and training like a man, he isn't ever going to amount to anything.
Take him, please take him. Someone. For the love of God.
Not sure about your midfield in that 4-3-3. Adu has shown that he plays better centrally and he cannot play center mid in a 4-3-3. He would more likely be a forward in that formation. Carroll is a great d-mid but not sure about his range. Gomez, from what I've seen could do it. It would be more likely that one of the Farfan's would slot to either or both wings as they both have played d and you need your mids to play some d in that formation and tores and Adu are not known for that.
Mwanga, Martinez, McInerney and Hoffman are "exceptionally young and talented forwards"?
What does that make LeToux, Hassli, Camilo, Salgado, and Mattocks? Gods?
He was 17 for almost the entire year, and they had Camilo and Hassli, you're talking like they treated him unfairly…
If they trade LeToux and don't get anyone back in return, they absolutely have to bring someone else in. That lineup is so unproven and problematic that they would almost certainly be taking a big step back from last year.
aren't the union also getting lionard pajoy, columbian cocaine lover?
Not only is 28 is not that old, but to dismiss 28 goals 20 assists over two seasons with Philly as "runs hard"… that is not only absurd but also insulting.
You do realize this is a player that a Premier League team almost paid seven figures for, right? Does the best league in the world have any interest in anyone else on the Union roster? Maybe Freddy "failed all across Europe" Adu?
LeToux had the perfect attendance record and he scored goals but missed a lot too. Plus he would disappear for long stretches. Not a huge loss Carrol and Gomes paired in the middle is going to be deadly. Mwanga will have a chance to come out of his shell – assuming Nowak plays him and he doesn't disappear to England. As for Mondi leaving – our back line is stronger than it was last year. MacMath has the skills. Defensively we played better with zack in goal because we actually built up from the back. Mondi would get wrapped up in his own head and often pissed off the rest of the team costing us matches. As for the Adu question, he needs to go wide. He is a sneaky sob out there and can make plays happen out of nowhere provided the rest of the team is cabable of reading his plans. MLS teams dont know how to handle wingers. Overall, I'll miss Pauno the most. Dude didn't always play and didn't always score but he always put in 100% when he got the chance. He could turn games around.
DCU ought to snatch-up one of those strikers. If Vancouver are actually looking to unload.
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Agreed. Letoux is/was one of the best on the Union. In 1 day both Letoux and Man Dragon are gone and they get what in return? A box of ham and cheese hot pockets it seems.
Everyone bags on Redbulls for making dumb moves. Well Philly, not wanting to be bested by Redbulls in stupidity has made this gem of a move.
Well theres always Califf. HA!!!!!
I just don't get why the Union are so willing to sell Le Toux. In the two years that he has been here, he has come pretty darn close to getting Icon status in Philadelphia. Another couple of years, he could become to the Union what Bobby Clarke is to the Flyers. Who is going to score goals next year? Danny has the talent, but his head doesn't seem to alway be in the game, especially when he starts. Jack is still young, but he seems to be a poacher, not really able to take guys on his own and a greater reliance on his fellow attackers. I don't know enough about the other young guys to form an opinion. I hope that I am completely wrong about both players, but I really don't see the need to sell Le Toux. I was fine with him going to the EPL or even another foreign league, but to sell him to another MLS team for allocation money baffles me.
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Doesn't Vancouver have enough strikers?
1. Granted, Le Toux ain't the most skilled guy around. But 28 should be the "sweet spot" for most soccer players so to say he's aging is just silly. Plus, the man is a good team leader (by example at least) and productive. I love Nowak but he's very much "my way or the highway" and I can see him concluding that Le Toux is limiting or isn't as bought in to his program.
Bottom line: losing Le Toux and Mondragon means that the Union lose two guys with tremendous on-field leadership that you don't easily replace.
2. Carroll has very good range. Not the hardest tackling guy in the world but he reads the game superbly, will run all day, plays smart and sweeps ground like a Hoover on steroids. Playing with DCU (where he was behind some A-mids like Christian Gomez and Freddy Adu who weren't ball winners) he had to cover ground and he did so very effectively.
3. Adu played in a 4-3-3 under Rongen with the various U-sides. That said, he had mixed results…games where he impressed and games where he just completely disappeared. And you definitely don't want Adu out on a wing.
4. You can talk about a great mix of young attackers (and I agree there is nice potential there) but to look at it another way: how many goals have those players scored in total in MLS in the past 2 years? Philly better have someone else in their radar screens at forward.
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Before yesterday I figured the East was up for grabs between SKC and Phili. Phili apparently want to take themselves out of the equation
chance of philly making playoffs? whats that funny video of the NFL coach talking about playoffs?
The West is going to be brutal this year with the new playoff format and all these teams ramping up.
Quakes and Chivas USA might be in permanent trouble.
yea…i would want to leave Canada asap if i was Salgado
TFC will be fighting to win the east this year. They're probably the only team in the east who have gotten better in the off season.
Philly clearly was so cheap on this one. The discussion went like this, "I'm the best player on the team. I almost got signed by Bolton. I just want to be paid what I am worth, not 180,000." The Union responded with, "We think you are worth a lot less than you think you are." And then they traded our franchise player to Vancouver.
This deal does not make sense to me from either side. Not sure what Nowak is thinking trading a two way striker with a proven record for scoring and producing for allocation money. In my mind the Union are making a very large bet on youth and talent over production and skill and that rarely works well in this league. The Whitecaps already have a huge stable of forwards including Hassli unless there is another deal in the works I'm not sure where all those guys play.
Nowak will never spend real money on a skillful striker. His management style is too stubborn. Unions downfall is a stubborn manager. He should look at Bruce Arena's management style, which makes a lot more sense.
Folks who are saying this is no big loss remind me of that scene in Monty Python's "none shall pass" scene. Dude's had his arms and legs lopped off and says "It's merely a flesh wound…"
LeToux was the only guy getting it done last year. Even if the young bucs figure it out quickly the learning curve is going to see at least three games dropped. That and the "brain" behind the back 4 is gone and we're one Brian Carroll Injury away from having the spine of the team ripped out completely.
I'll hope for the best and other folks can talk tough all they want but there is no getting around the fact that these are HUGE shoes to fill.
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All due respect to the next generation talent but they aren't anywhere near as productive right now. And whatever you want to say about LeToux he's been double digit goals two years running. To me it sounds like the self-serving comments about CD9 as he headed to France, as though 10+ goals grow on trees. And LeToux makes less than $200K. Which means there's not even DP money to try and replace the production.
I also hear similar things from Houston fans about Boyd, we don't need him, etc. Tell me that when you can't score goals midseason.
unless this is to get Bolton to make a counter offer
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Amen. Nowak is merely OK as a coach. He seems to be the sort of coach who harnesses maybe 1 or 2 good seasons from a team then burns everyone out. He ran the legs off that good DC team years ago.
Maybe thats the reason they went for Le2.
now youre talking
I think the key is that this is the last year of his contract. Being considered for the MVP award the last 2 years, I'm guessing the Union wanted to unload him and get something in return rather than keep him one more year, decide not to give him a big raise/dp status and get nothing in return.
You're sorely mistaken. He played all 90 minutes becasue… he could. His work ethic and fitness were exceptional. And oh yeah, he was top 2 in points scored BOTH years! Better than Beckham, Henry, Donovan, Shea, Wondoloski, etc. Do you think anyone would call a trade fo one of those players a good idea"? He is a legitimate MVP candidate.
Perhaps the reason you saw him as "invisible" was because Novak repeatedly placed a true striker in the mid-field. Once he allowed Seb to roam up top last year(in the second half of the season), he immedaitely began scoring goals and in bunches…remember? Clearly, he has more skill sets other than "runs hard." Goal scoring is at a premium, so much so that he led the team by a landlside for the past two years and was top 10 in goal scoring alone. Keep in mind that he's younger than Landon Donovan, Henry, Beckham, and is the avergae age of the MLS CUP winning L.A. Galaxy.
Mwanga will be gone (to Aston Villa) and the young players are untested and unproven. This move makes no sense.
Fans would love this, Sigi would not.
It IS important to remember the kid is 18. And from watching him you can tell he does have the tools. HOWEVER, he isn't very good yet. He has the tendency to receive the ball, lean into the defender with his right shoulder, while holding the ball away with his strong left foot, (he has no right foot at this point… passed up a wide open shot on his right peg) and then dallies about looking for a moment to turn the defender. He may eventually lay the ball off.
Jake DeClute (new assistant coach) was telling him he needs to makes quicker decisions. IE: Turn the player right away or lay the ball off quickly and then move. DON'T stand still and allow the defense to close you down.
BUT, most notably was during the 11 v 11 game he spent ALOT of time with that whiney look on his face, and complained about offside calls, and fouls that he felt should have been called.
I don't know, but the impression you get is that he doesn't want to be here. In interviews he looks dazed and elsewhere. You don't see that when you see media of him with GA or the US National team.
Regardless of how he feels about Canada, or Vancouver or whatever, as fans, most of us want him gone. A sulky 18 year old doesn't win alot of respect.
Oh, and Mattocks looked WAY more dangerous than Omar. Scored a goal, and looked lively.
As a Red Bull fan, I'll be interested to see how this plays out for Philly. High risk, high reward moves by handing the keys to MacMath and that stable of young forwards. Could be they're all fearless and go out there an play well, or they could end up being a rudderless ship with few leaders who never get out of the gate this season.
As they say, only time will tell, as these moves may look better in 2013 after the young guys have a full season to play together and learn some tough lessons…
I was hoping the keepers would at least split time this year anyway so Mondy doesn't bother me much. Unless MacMath goes to the Olympics, that'll be a hell of a few weeks without Williams, MacMath, Okugo, Adu and Farfan. It's great to have them all go but losing MacMath specifically creates a pretty big hole.
MacMath was at least as good as Mondragon in his stint last season. I wouldn't expect much of a drop off at keeper. Losing Le Toux is rough, but if they keep Roger Torres because of it and still have money left over to use the next few years, they could be a very potent force. A succesful MLS team should develop young players and sell them in order to develop better young players. Thats the way to succeed in this league and for this league to succeed. The Union realize that and may be pushing it too hard for some, but the idea of this lineup starting in MLS for the next few years really gets me excited.
Mwanga 20 Martinez 21 McInerney 19 Hoffman 21
Adu 22 Farfan and Farfan 23 Okugo 20 Torres 20 Pfeffer 17 Nakazawa 23
Gaddis 22 Williams 21
MacMath 20
Show me another team with that kind of youth and we'll have an MLS finals matchup a few years down the line
Carrol blows
Im glad he is still in the league….fun player to watch
Le Toux is one of the most skilled players in the league…huge loss
Arena is stubbornly too defensive in approach also
Okay a few years down the line… what about in 2012?


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