Akeel Bilgrami Akeel Bilgrami, in his recent essay attempting to unpack Gandhi's views on caste, frames the approach as one grounded in a view of the pre-modern, pre-capitalist society as distinctly different from viewing the members of society as merely constituents of an economy. This, he argues is the key to understanding the evolution of Gandhi's stance on caste. This instructive essay is, in some ways, an elaboration of his interview to Frontline in 2018 , where he mused on the tension inherent in the slogan: Liberté, égalité and fraternité, and the points at which the Marxian and Gandhian outlook towards this tension, overlap and distinctly depart from one another. The crux of Gandhi's conundrum that folks across the political spectrum can relate to is what Bilgrami succinctly states thus: to retain caste was to resist the market ideal that undermined traditional social relations by setting up the freely saleable labour of at
Less a caterpillar, more a Bombyx Mori.
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Maybe it has transformed!
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Thank you compli.
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You surely did mean to be kind than kind of be mean. I mean I know what you mean :-)
Thank you Divya. Kind of the words of the wise.
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ReplyDeleteReminds me of the nightblind GM in Chinnathambi, to whom a greater degree of virtue is attributed than is the case :-)
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ROTFL!
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still not a butterfly//
and I can relate it to spirituality. I guess something is wrong with me, I wear blue glasses and everything looks blue.
Deep words. thanks.
Nothing wrong SP :-)
ReplyDeleteIt is pretty spiritual. Much as one is advised not to go into the metaphors in Haikus, we all continue to search for metaphors which heighten how we can better relate to the poems.