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
Dhevasams trump rationality in any case :-) Yendha kaakaada namma kollu thaatha - andankaakava, sadhaa kaava ? "Sesame Balls" sounds lame somehow. Well inglees has its limitations ... Hmm this calls for a separate post altogether.
ReplyDeleteLame it is. Guilty as charged. Post soon.
ReplyDeleteMore than the translation, classifying the taste was the bigger stumper.
Oh no, I didn't mean to imply that your post was lame. It's just that Yellurundai scores on the Nuch factor - the salivation starts even before the final syllable is completed. Deficiency of Inglees like I said ... This is a trivial example of what was being discussed a few posts back about how translations tend to dilute ...
ReplyDeleteGot that. I meant guilty of attempting a translation which was fated to be lame.
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