S B Easwaran posted his comments to my post “Learn to wring a chicken’s neck…” wondering about the wisdom of an Hindustan Times article romanticising Kobad Ghandy, the alleged Maoist leader arrested in Delhi. I’m throwing up Easwaran’s comments as a separate post to carry forward the PublicScrutiny of that debatable article.
— B V Rao, administrator
By S B EASWARAN
Is a Maoist the more interesting for having gone to Doon School, for coming from an affluent and urbane Parsi family of Bombay? Is he the more interesting for his naive psychology of minor or ritual brutality in preparation for human violence and death of hundred-fold magnitude? Is he the more interesting for the polished affluence of his fruit-icecream fortunes? Or is he just a more interesting story for all that? continue reading…
