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Harvey Milk
I had been to a conference in Lugano recently where ‘body’ was discussed so zealously that a dear friend commented with a nip of sarcasm that ‘by all means body has arrived, again”. I didn’t know that body had been missing for sometime, honestly. Body as an absentee landlord is definitely an interesting thought, but scary. Body dominated the dinner sessions as well. The Pre-Alpine lake lolled around while the more wined deliberated more. When it comes to performing tranquility no one can beat the Swiss, nature or culture. However, one of their neighbors has an entirely different scheme of existence.
The playboy president of the French had a revelation couple of weeks ago and the guy rushed to the parliament to proclaim that “we can’t have in our country women who are prisoners behind netting!” Burqah as Bastille and Sarkozy as high priest of revolution; definitely interesting, but very scary. (In the Lugano conference a remarkable paper had been on the Other’s body. Taking up Scruton’s argument in Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Enquiry that the sadist, like the necrophiliac, pedophile and rapist, can accept the Other only in terms dictated by himself and for him Other’s body isalways a means to accomplish a private ceremony, the paper explored various Statist debates on headscarves and clitoridectomy.) Hardly two weeks after the Sarkozy folly – pardon me, reason – an Indian high court ruled that sex among consenting adults of the same sex is not a crime. Body has arrived, really.
I religiously followed some panel discussions regarding this historic judgment on Indian television. In NDTV, the spokesperson of Indian National Congress party, who practically lives in television studios, had deliberately confused the names of the gay rights spokesperson Gautam Bhan and journalist Siddharth Varadarajan. It was certainly not ‘spokespersonal jealousy’!
In another channel some esteemed metro citizens were worried that the judgment would unbolt the Pandora’s Box of ‘homosexual vices’. Anyone who had seen that wonderful biopic of Harvey Milk by Gus van Sant and Dustin Lance Black -Milk- must have had a deja vu. Many of the morally stinking arguments were exactly those raised by John Briggs in the 1978 television debates with Milk.
Well, let’s mimic Milk and ask, “How do you teach homosexuality? Is it French?”
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July 8th, 2009 at 11:09 PM
as a practicing psycho. I have the bull (s___) by the horns. post-first-conference-stress-syndrome it has to be. this thread is declared closed(up). the author is still at large.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:32 PM
i can see the smiles… so..
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Authors
* A S Ajith Kumar (2)
* Anivar Aravind (5)
* Bobby Kunhu (2)
* Damodar Prasad (1)
* Girija K P (1)
* Itty Abraham (1)
* Mythri Prasad (1)
* P K Ratheeshkumar (1)
* P Shyma (1)
* Sanjeev S (1)
* Satya Sagar (1)
* sreebitha (1)
* Sreejitha P V (1)
* Srividya Thazhathu (4)
* Sukla Sen (1)
* Sumesh Mangalassery (1)
u can see 16 authors. but i see at most 13 authors and one failed adman. this was one ambitioius project of efficiently converting mallu mcp energy to page views. i hypotheise that the above pulling out method of population control was staged. any comments? HA HA HA HA HA
July 9th, 2009 at 5:03 AM
Thanks Srividya for demonstrating the cultural superiority of malayali women. Let God be with you in your journey out of the pond to the ocean. The african paayal which pops up everywhere in the pond will have no standing in the mighty ocean.
July 16th, 2009 at 11:46 PM
I see a very victorious smile on the faces of many men, who are very active – in many ways- in this space. How can a woman- unknown, unrelated,…. so on- write such subjects such a way in a space like this? She should be driven out of this “pond” to secure it for the frogs in this pond. Ha, ha, ha….
July 17th, 2009 at 12:11 AM
O Santhosh, please don’t bring in a ‘woman’ sympathy here. I personally feel sad at the author’s decision to quit this space (as an author). I am not even sure about the ‘unrelated’ part. That is also ‘unknown’:-) I did not really understand ‘such subjects’ and ‘such a way’. May be I am not too familiar with that ‘way’. My problem was precisely that. I thought Sreebitha and Shyma wrote ‘such stuff’ in ‘such a way’ (and also Sandhya, whose piece was rejected here). (I have been booed enough in this space for commenting too much but like Srividya who could not resist commenting on certain things of her interest, I also could not resist this).
July 17th, 2009 at 12:15 AM
multitasker extraordinaire!
July 17th, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Thanks SU for clearing “unrelated” part.