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[Satchid anandan]

Dear Anvar, 

 Can you forward to me the email-ids of the participants in our discussion?And all of you may suggest other names too.I am ready with the questionnaire.Feeling terribly feverish.

Warmly Satchida

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[Priyadas G Mangalath]

Running temperature?

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[Anvar Ali]

maashe,
I have already sent the available mail ids of those who participated in the edapal discussion. along with a few critical comments on the othert names u have suggested. It was sent on 15th July.  The same is once again pasted here -

Dear all,

The available Ids of the participants -
 

1)      E. Santhosh Kumar - esantho...@rediffmail.com

2)      Subhash Chandran - subhashc...@rediffmail.com

3)      Ajay P Mangad - mang...@gmail.com

4)      N G Unnikrishnan - ngu...@gmail.com

5)      Sakkaria - paulza...@gmail.com

6)      Sajai KV - saj...@gmail.com

7)      G Ushakumari - kumar...@gmail.com

8)      V. Mohanakrishnan - kaan...@gmail.com

9)      Sudheesh Kottembram - kotte...@gmail.com

10)  Kalpatta – not available

               11)  Rafeek ahammad – rafeeq...@gmail.com

12)  D. Vinayachandran – Not available

The suggestion on additional names for symposium in Satchi mash's mail is packed with fiction writers. So pls select one or two from that list and add 1 or 2 poets too like KGS, Savithri Rajeevan, Anitha, and T P Rajeevan....
And, mashe, i have strong differences with the qualitative comparison between fiction and poetry that was understood in the statements made by many in that session.... Ok. anyone have the right to compare the outputs of different genres personally, but still it wont  essentially meet the cause of critical debate on paralleling genres in a given historical as well as aesthetic context. I think, no one in that session did consider the idiomatic difference of both the genres except in Joseph's observation....

Im preparing an address list with postal and email details.. will finish within 2 days...
Pls see my other mail on the follow up.
Anvar 

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[Satchid anandan]

Thanks, Anvar. I did not go back enough to notice the old mail, sorry.

I share the views about the discussion.It was an experiment and I, like many of you, had doubts even earlier, about the discussion being held in public that even if unconsciously forces the  participants no more than to be there and to 'perform'.Also there was a time constraint. In the discussions I have moderated in literary festivals, I always turned to the speakers with specific questions; here too after the first round, that was my intention, but there was hardly a second round.All seemed to have come with some general things to say hardly thinking deep about the questions being posed. One reason for that also may be that  by the time we decided the questions and sent them, it was a bit too late. So the failure had many reasons and a postmortem helps only our future discussions 1, that it should be a separate affair held privately, 2, that  we should send the questions in time 3, we should be more careful in the choice of participants. I even feel that the conservative format of one basic paper prepared and sent in advance , shaping the actual discussions around it or sending the questions and getting written responses may work better in our environment ruled by the logic of TV shows  where what is being said becomes the least important.As a TV discussion, our discussion would have been rated high and on Facebook, it would have got several 'likes'. There lies a more general cultural crisis where depth is replaced by performativity : I can see this influence on other platforms too.Unthinking observations and flat denials and pointless sensational statements get  greater attention that in-depth analyses which are forbidden in TV shows.( If some one tries an intelligent response, the anchor/ moderator / interviewer will cut him/her short and ask another question or turn to another person.)And I fear many of our writers are also turning into showmen.Sorry  for the distraction, but had to say this. I am just coming out of a bad food -poisoning episode.

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