http://kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/ media | politics | dissent Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/#comment-1608 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:09:19 +0000 http://www.kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/#comment-1608 [...] wait, that’s not it. From the other end of the ideological spectrum, we got this stunning blogpost on Kafila. Which claimed that all encounter killings in the country were the handiwork of a conspiracy in the [...]

]]> http://kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/#comment-1607 Wed, 09 May 2007 14:43:22 +0000 http://www.kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/#comment-1607 [...] The use of the phrase ‘fake encounter’ somehow seems to support the theory that cases like Vanzara’s is an aberration, and it will be useful for us to return the word to its more honest singular form. The constant repetition  of ‘fake encounter’ becomes a performative act in which a particular truth is produced through constant acts of misrecognition. Referring to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about the emperor’s new clothes, Zizek says that the little boy’s proclamation of the nudity of the emperor did not reveal the emperor’s nudity, since every one knew he was nude anyway. What it  did reveal was the collective silence or untruth that everyone else was participating in. He says that if “somebody were publicly to pronounce the obvious truth that ‘the emperor is naked’ . . . —in a sense the whole system would fall apart”. Fake ecnounter seems to lie in the domain of the collective lie that Shuddha has documented. [...]

]]> http://kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/#comment-1606 Tue, 08 May 2007 04:50:20 +0000 http://www.kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/#comment-1606 [...] Shuddhabrata Sengupta’s search for deep connections among encounter killings in many states leads to this very interesting conclusion. [...]

]]> http://kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/#comment-1605 Mon, 07 May 2007 08:50:18 +0000 http://www.kafila.org/2007/05/06/gujarat-fake-encounters-the-spin-doctoring-has-begun/#comment-1605 [...] Conspiracy theories are very popular because of the sense of intrigue they generate. In fact, one of my favourite comic strips talks about them today. As the comic says, some of them are true and quite a few of them have some element of truth in them. The recent expose of Vanzara centred fake encounter drama has taken centrestage on our media. Could conspiracy theories be far behind? What is missing, or not commented on, in much of the discussion around the fake encounters is the fact that this kind of multi-state co ordination of police forces can only be done by Central bodies. The one central body uniquely equipped to bring such co ordinated efforts to fruition is none other than the Intelligence Bureau. [...]

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