Re: Toor on Roy & Indo-chic

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/15/07, Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This baiting has no place on the list.

Doug should quit trying to use the divide and conquer approach,
pitting Saadia Toor against Arundhati Roy, when their criticisms of
liberalization of Indian economy and Orientalism, old and new, have
far more in common with each other than Doug's own view of both.

On 4/15/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> > I think that Iran is important.  I learnt a great deal from Doug's
> > recent interview
> > on the subject.
>
> Glad you liked it <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/
> Radio.html#070412>. I thought it was one of the best shows I've done.
> Hamid Dabashi is an excellent talker (he required almost no editing),
> and I was pleased with the way I structured the interviews. And the
> Iranian hip-hop was pretty groovy. Of course Dabashi, lacking the
> magical power to read my inner thoughts, had no idea that I supported
> the invasion of Iran and installation of Paul Bremer as proconsul.

You didn't support the invasion of Iraq, but you opposed US troop
withdrawal for a long time, based on "polls" in occupied Iraq.
--
Yoshie