tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post113952687502255312..comments2024-03-01T13:51:47.721+05:30Comments on Reality, one bite at a time: Transcript of the complete Prachanda interviewSiddharth Varadarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721228307097170092noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1141144620107653662006-02-28T22:07:00.000+05:302006-02-28T22:07:00.000+05:30Hey second anonymous!!i persume you have gone and ...Hey second anonymous!!<BR/><BR/>i persume you have gone and lived in the Nepal countryside for at least six months to write with such authority huh??<BR/><BR/>By your own standards,Lashkar-e-Taibba is as important as the Hurriyat/other political parties for the Kashmiri Awaam to gain freedom from Indian tyranny...right??<BR/><BR/>Jivan Upadhyay<BR/>HoustonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1141143561898242482006-02-28T21:49:00.000+05:302006-02-28T21:49:00.000+05:30Indian media!stop glorifying terrorists in other c...Indian media!<BR/>stop glorifying terrorists in other countries.You would raise a hue and cry if someone were to go and interview one of the Kashmir militants.<BR/>If you so feel about the the suffering and tyranny,remember charity starts at home.Go and write about giving unconditional freedom to the Kashmiri people first and then worry about "soft landing" the maoists in Nepal.<BR/>Are you so naive to believe the assurances Prachanda gives about not harming India?maybe you think"ok,this guys says he isn't a threat to India.I believe him.we can do business with him"..Right?...as long as they are soft toward India...Kuch bhi chalega ...Kyoon??They are part of RIM.They will harm Indian fedral structure one way or the other.Kepp betting on them and you'll soon find out.<BR/>Please go and live in the Nepali country side for two months and then come back and tell us you still feel the same way about them.It is easy to meet up with them under Indian governments protection in New Delhi or wherever it is you met them.You have the comfort of seeing those murderers all spruced up media savvy and giving polished arguments.The people in rural Nepal don't.Frankly,you have the wrong side of the picture.I personally don't like what the king has done so far but the king is a lesser evil than those murderes anyday!!<BR/>Jivan Upadhyay<BR/>Houston <BR/>TexasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1140023971398086772006-02-15T22:49:00.000+05:302006-02-15T22:49:00.000+05:30What a violence of words! Where is Gandhi without ...What a violence of words! Where is Gandhi without Bhagat Singh? And what about 'violent' peasant struggles that were backbone of the Indian freedom struggle? King was great in negotiating for civil rights, but Malcolm X was needed for rooting black consciousness and confidence in the American society that still terrorises the White and Christian supremacist paranoids. "Anonymous" seems to act like a "frog in the well" of Global McCarthyism. What about Mandela? Go and ask Mandela if just non-violence was sufficient for him and his comrades. As Marx said, "Ignorance has not helped anybody yet!" Read your primers, properly. Don't waste your time and ours on internet!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1139670802280613942006-02-11T20:43:00.000+05:302006-02-11T20:43:00.000+05:30Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments ...<B>Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author.</B> Prachanda is simply another commie cutthroat and thug in the tradition of other famous cutthroats and crooks of the 20th century - Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Ceausescu, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Castro, Che and the long procession of "liberators" who have butchered millions upon millions. That a journalist who has lived in the land of Gandhi, Ambedkar and Tagore should choose to shamelessly drool over a bunch of mass-murderers like the Nepal Maoists shows that the loony left has learnt nothing even after having learnt of the blood soaked excesses of communism. The blog author is well and firmly on the slippery slope to self-anointed command and control having decided to moderate comments. Communism and its fetid offshoots, Maoism. Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism etc., is over everything else a dishonest, unscrupulous and unprincipled ideology. For every wannabe tinpot dictator like Prachanda the lessons of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia is required reading. Communism may gain temporarily but sooner than later when the people understand what a disastrous and bankrupt ideology it is its fall is sure and swift. The blog author as well as the objects of his drooling admiration should read history over and over again. The 20th century's most important movements, led respectively by Gandhi, King and Mandela as well as the fall of communism have all been precipitated through peaceful mass action. Totalitarian and violent movements have produced only pain and suffering. Prachanda and his fawners can waffle all they want but none excepting the credulous will see anything but poorly concealed authoritarianism in their words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1139578198952733532006-02-10T18:59:00.000+05:302006-02-10T18:59:00.000+05:30Well done! Siddharth. I have always admired your w...Well done! Siddharth. I have always admired your writings, many times differing with your ideas, too. I admire your integrity and sincerity that journalists in general lack, because of the corporate command on their labour. Not that my admiration matters to you or anyone, but I felt I must congratulate you for the way you have facilitated in bringing out the reality of the Nepalese movement, and that it is part of the global movement for 'people's democracy', that takes diverse shapes in diverse contexts - the post-Cold War alternative to capitalism, its democracy of the propertied and market autocracy. GreetingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com