03-23-2006, 02:09 AM
Prashad looking for Maa Saraswati. Now that is something new.. <!--emo&
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> I have a personal investment in a more complex narrative of Indian history. Not only am I a historian who has written such a book (a social history of a Dalit community), but I am also a father. I want my two children to experience an India that has a history to which they can be proud, and yet one that impels them to fight to make the India of our dreams in the future rather than indulge in a fantasy of an India Shining. India could shine. It isnât shining now. Where is Saraswati when we need her?
Vijay Prashad is associate professor
of international studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> I have a personal investment in a more complex narrative of Indian history. Not only am I a historian who has written such a book (a social history of a Dalit community), but I am also a father. I want my two children to experience an India that has a history to which they can be proud, and yet one that impels them to fight to make the India of our dreams in the future rather than indulge in a fantasy of an India Shining. India could shine. It isnât shining now. Where is Saraswati when we need her?
Vijay Prashad is associate professor
of international studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->