Comments on: Light reading for the coffee table http://ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table Arts and politics of the South Asian diaspora Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: prakruti http://ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table/comment-page-1#comment-5388 prakruti Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:46:14 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table#comment-5388 Arent these international human rights organizations and moral police supposed to keep track of how prisoners should be treated ?Arent there general guidelines as to how to humanly interrogate prisoners? it is a sad state of affairs.. Arent these international human rights organizations and moral police supposed to keep track of how prisoners should be treated ?Arent there general guidelines as to how to humanly interrogate prisoners? it is a sad state of affairs..

]]> By: Kautilya http://ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table/comment-page-1#comment-5365 Kautilya Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:50:40 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table#comment-5365 Even if Jenna, whose family I despise, did travel to India to highlight abuses, the Manmohan-Sonia government, unlike the Americans, would be summoning Mulford and make allusions to how they couldn't "guarantee her safety"...and how...."this is for jenna betis own good"..etc ps, i too wonder, whether ms.singh has looked or will ever look into her father's machinery, which is crushing innocents in kashmir and elsewhere. Even if Jenna, whose family I despise, did travel to India to highlight abuses, the Manmohan-Sonia government, unlike the Americans, would be summoning Mulford and make allusions to how they couldn’t “guarantee her safety”…and how….”this is for jenna betis own good”..etc

ps, i too wonder, whether ms.singh has looked or will ever look into her father’s machinery, which is crushing innocents in kashmir and elsewhere.

]]> By: Suraj http://ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table/comment-page-1#comment-5363 Suraj Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:52:01 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table#comment-5363 <blockquote>I’m trying to imagine Jenna Bush travelling to Assam and indicting the Indian government’s treatment of separatists. And I’m failing miserably.</blockquote> What a specious reasoning!! Plus - why would one want to compare US standing with India? - has US stooped that low? Its like - I smell shit all the time - but some one else eats it., So I am better off.

I’m trying to imagine Jenna Bush travelling to Assam and indicting the Indian government’s treatment of separatists. And I’m failing miserably.

What a specious reasoning!!

Plus - why would one want to compare US standing with India? - has US stooped that low?

Its like - I smell shit all the time - but some one else eats it., So I am better off.

]]> By: SP http://ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table/comment-page-1#comment-5355 SP Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:15:14 +0000 http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/light-reading-for-the-coffee-table#comment-5355 <blockquote>I’m trying to imagine Jenna Bush travelling to Assam and indicting the Indian government’s treatment of separatists. And I’m failing miserably.</blockquote> True. But I also have trouble imagining Manmohan Singh's daughter (serious kudos to her, and taking nothing away from her work and achievements) travelling to Assam or Punjab and indicting the Indian govt's abuses there either. The Indian legal system is of course a hell of a lot more frustrating to work through and the unwanted publicity she'd have received for being who she was are probably good reasons not to do it, and perhaps it's unfair to pick her as an example. Yet it's always a bit sad, to me (caveats, pragmatism, global citizenship and all else considered), when we Indians unleash our moral energies elsewhere and not to do some soul-searching and work for change in our own country (and here I speak for those who are born and brought up in India and move elsewhere later; I do, of course, expect those of Indian parentage in the US to work as US citizens). A connected issue that always bothers me is the way in which many Indians voice morally outrage about Guantanamo and yet we put up with abuses that are as bad or worse for our own terrorism detainees.

I’m trying to imagine Jenna Bush travelling to Assam and indicting the Indian government’s treatment of separatists. And I’m failing miserably.

True. But I also have trouble imagining Manmohan Singh’s daughter (serious kudos to her, and taking nothing away from her work and achievements) travelling to Assam or Punjab and indicting the Indian govt’s abuses there either. The Indian legal system is of course a hell of a lot more frustrating to work through and the unwanted publicity she’d have received for being who she was are probably good reasons not to do it, and perhaps it’s unfair to pick her as an example.

Yet it’s always a bit sad, to me (caveats, pragmatism, global citizenship and all else considered), when we Indians unleash our moral energies elsewhere and not to do some soul-searching and work for change in our own country (and here I speak for those who are born and brought up in India and move elsewhere later; I do, of course, expect those of Indian parentage in the US to work as US citizens).

A connected issue that always bothers me is the way in which many Indians voice morally outrage about Guantanamo and yet we put up with abuses that are as bad or worse for our own terrorism detainees.

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