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This is an example of talent recognises talent. Stop being so toxic
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Aka gainful recognition of and traffic in privilege.
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Exactly, Sarabhai is the reason India is on the moon. Stop being hyper critical about everything. If you had access to Tagore even you would ask him for a recommendation letter.
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People like you have too much time for unnecessary and unproductive opinions. Spend time in better things
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Yeah, this ain't trollish. It's calling out savarna privilege. Mod should educate himself and read Marxist critiques of Tagore. He emphasised only romantic and classical aspects of Bengal, overlooking subaltern culture.
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He overlooked the subaltern culture? Did you even read his works, or only half-baked critiques of it?
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Read Chandalika. There is more than one way of perceiving Dalit identity and struggles.
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This was Tagore’s way of pushing talented Indians and there was no harm to it at that time. Mod should mark this comment featured. Some ahles will never realise this and make threads like this
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Maybe. But was it mostly about pushing talents who are "people like us" and "benign paternalism" for others who "fortunately" came in contact through privileged networks? And how about tracing how the money (and the privileges) came to Tagore?
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but wouldnt recommendation letters be given by people in the same network, isnt that the purpose of the recommendation letters (to keep privileges locked in the network)
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