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Urban India is where the communal drama unfolds -> co-survival triggered by secular issues communal violence - political strategy; communal base; minority leaders hatred in public - cordial relations at a personal level - "Animosities are for politics." - tight compartmentalization of political and personal interactions. 250 million semi-modernized, semi-westernized middle classes = new emerging caste, which the BJP has tapped Fear of the "other" - as constructed by fundamentalists - prompts communal violence. Promoted by absence of ideology in politics - their community wants them in power (as with the Dalits or OBCs like Yadavs, Kurmis, Lodhs, and Mayawati or Laloo) NRIs fuel communalism - uprooted persons, who fear a loss of identity Communal politics remains a way of secularizing politics new kind of a political culture - free for all - minimum conformity with the laws Possible questions: Why does Ashis Nandy cite the story of the Muslim old m...

I have no notes, but no worries - this analysis is perfect: http://www.scribd.com/doc/98370314/Short-Story-Analysis-of-The-Prophet-s-Hair-by-Salman-Rushdie

Painful and helpless situation of voters - angst, frustration Questionable morality, ethics of rally men http://cuenglias.blogspot.in/2015/03/the-election-sitakant-mahapatra.html Our jeep crawls to your village seeking strange melodies get attention from people. All the promises are built from songs from the roaring sun: 'the common will' drawn out by politicians from the criss-cross geometry geometry always symmetric also, smaller problems filtered for larger ones of private agonies. Our dark longings don't touch you, ulterior motives hidden nor our trappings of posters, symbols, speeches, handbills, for your grief outlives empires. metaphor: how deep, how lasting their grief is The cold grandchildren awaken in your heart as you discern All speeches, posters - people know that all politicians want is to stay in power. muted allegories An allegory is an extended metaphor - in the songs and speeches, there is a wide use of rhetoric and of symbols...