Archive for July, 2006
Shekhar Gupta on Mumbai Blasts
There was once a time when Hypertree felt that the only clear thinkers in India were members of the CPI-M politburo. But then it came to know of some other stellar emotively logical thinkers like this and this, and it had to admit that the hegemonistic world outside the CPI-M politburo was not all madness.
It is thus gladdened to see yet another clear thinker emerge out of the depressive swamp that is the hegemonistic English newspaper columnists (other than our comrades in The Hindu of course).
Shekhar Gupta in this interesting article avers that casteist and classist struggles as well as righteous Islamic self-defence against the hegemonist upper class upper caste Gujarati Hindus, are the underlying causes of the recent bomb blasts in Mumbai. Hypertree is always in solidarity with the oppressed and those facing injustice, and cannot fail to grasp the progressive message of Gupta: that it is the upper class upper caste Gujarati Hindus who were behind the blasts and who bombed themselves so as to cast aspersions on Islamic extremists and Pakistan.
Also, in the article he observes that the most “stunning” aspect of the Indian response was the lack of riots. As Hypertree keeps telling its readers, we Indians are barbarians and lie in wait for the next bomb blast so that we can start killing each other and if we do not do this it is very stunning. Hypertree was so stunned, it had to apply Vico turmeric anti stunning cream to its forehead.
Actually Hypertree is not just stunned, it is also glad. For if the lack of riots was the most stunning thing to Gupta, what was not the most stunning were the moral and progressive actions of this government of bravely not acting at all in response to the attacks. It shows that the Gandhian tradition of cutting off ones balls is still running strong as to not be stunning, inspite of the best efforts of the hegemonist communalists.
2 comments July 27, 2006
Mumbai Blasts
Hypertree prefers to focus on the pressing issues facing the exploited and the oppressed, such as banning the blogs of the hegemonist upper class bourgeois, but if there is one failing we compassionates have, it is empathy.
So, with the recent bomb blasts in Mumbai, Hypertree was beside itself in empathy with Pakistan. With every graphic image from Mumbai of the people injured or dead, Hypertree couldn’t help thinking of the innocent Pakistani child who would be exposed to such images; and about the extent of fascism in India’s communal parties who lay the blame on such innocent children of our fraternal nation across the border. (I refer of course to Pakistan, and not China, which is our paternal nation.)
The bomb blast had seared not just through the train cars, it had also seared through the hearts of us compassionates. It had seared our hearts because we knew the communal parties would point fingers at our Pakistani brethren and not at themselves for their exploitative hegemonistic lifestyles.
Hypertree feels there is only one way to stop this madness. And that is to ban not just the blogs but also the parties of the hegemonist communalists. Only then can we prevent the depressing catastrophe of unjust aspersions being cast on anybody other than the upper class Hindu-communalist majority.
Add comment July 21, 2006
Banning blogs
Hypertree feels that the only thing that should be free is a copy of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. So that those of us on the side of the exploited and the oppressed can beat on the head of the hegemonists with it. Hypertree is thus amused at the furore about a lack of free-speech in the Indian Blogosphere at a recent banning of blogs by the Indian Government.
If Hypertree’s readers need any more reason to back this ban than to watch the hegemonists sputter about rights to speak freely about anything other than the glorious justice of communism; it is that there is little doubt that it is our CPIM leaders who are behind this noble crusade.
Hypertree of course has its sources, but an astute blog ban observologist has but to take one look at some of the banned blogs, like Expose the Left and Hindu Human Rights and be left with no doubt as to the righteous hands behind such a noble crusade.
Hypertree is cognizant of the tender sensitivities of its compassionate readers, so to provide the readers with a sanitized sample, it decided to brave doubtlessly hazardous exposure to fascism by going to the ExposeTheLeft website.
Now Hypertree is no stranger to depravity, but even its wordly wise ways had not prepared it for posts titled “Industrial production up 0.8% in June” and “Court reinstates Nebraska’s same-sex marriage ban”.
Dazed, Hypertree looked at the list of the banned sites again, to find something less hazardous to Hypertree’s weak stomach; only to find a ghastly titled princesskimberley.blogspot.com.
Hypertree could not bring itself to visit this website, but just from its name, thoroughly supports its ban, and perhaps even a fine on its author.
As for the Hindu Human Rights website which is fighting for the human rights of the oppressive and fascist Hindus, no doubt upper caste ones at that, Hypertree is glad that our idols of compassion, our CPIM leaders, are showing these idolators their place.
The noble crusade was extended by the progressive ISPs to encompass the entire hegemonist set of blogspot and typepad blogs. There is a reason why Hypertree is hosted on WordPress and it is that it was told that WordPress practices sustainable electron farming, and is hosted on fair-trade servers. Which must also be why the progressive ISPs and our CPIM leaders have not banned WordPress.
Hypertree is beside itself with rejoicement, for there could be little doubt that under the able stewardship of our enlightened CPIM and Congress leaders, India’s utopia is getting nearer and nearer.
1 comment July 21, 2006