12-29-2006, 09:58 PM
Vishwas, please dispense with the nuances. Here's what you said:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->These "arrogant landlords", do you have any evidence that they were anything more than small farmers?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
My bad, it was not in bold too. So there you go - double whammy. Enjoy.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Fatigue with the argument that caste is the source of all of India's problems.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not <b>all</b> the problems. Just this murder.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->After all, a multiple-murder action against a single family by 11 individuals, when atleast one other Dalit family lives in the village unharmed, is susceptible to many explanations besides caste. Especially when we know that the history of the relationship between that family and those villagers included a long-standing and pretty bitter land dispute. Does caste wholly explain the murder? Have other explanations even been explored, by you or members of the media?
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Again, again....if they had murdered them stealthily I would have never called it caste related. Family murdered, <i>zammen apna hai</i> or whatever. No problem.
It is only because they wanted to rub the dignity and teach a lesson. As for the other Dalit family, do you think they or anyone in the next fifteen <i>pusht</i> will even dare? That is the whole point, isn't it?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->These "arrogant landlords", do you have any evidence that they were anything more than small farmers?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
My bad, it was not in bold too. So there you go - double whammy. Enjoy.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Fatigue with the argument that caste is the source of all of India's problems.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Not <b>all</b> the problems. Just this murder.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->After all, a multiple-murder action against a single family by 11 individuals, when atleast one other Dalit family lives in the village unharmed, is susceptible to many explanations besides caste. Especially when we know that the history of the relationship between that family and those villagers included a long-standing and pretty bitter land dispute. Does caste wholly explain the murder? Have other explanations even been explored, by you or members of the media?
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Again, again....if they had murdered them stealthily I would have never called it caste related. Family murdered, <i>zammen apna hai</i> or whatever. No problem.
It is only because they wanted to rub the dignity and teach a lesson. As for the other Dalit family, do you think they or anyone in the next fifteen <i>pusht</i> will even dare? That is the whole point, isn't it?

