An open letter to one Mr Pawan

In light of the fact that a certain person has decided to take on my response to his/her buddy's self-righteous claims with some more bull-honkey , I am compelled to respond with this polite letter.

Dear Mr Pawan

After baiting that notoriously self-obsessed little man or little woman (some Louisa May Alcott there for you) that is little indian, I finally got a response, from you, one of his cronies, no doubt (Or maybe little Indian is you and in fact, called Pawan, in which case, a warm View from Beneath hello to you, Pawan).

As the first time visitor you no doubt are, allow me to familiarise you with how this place works. First of all, we don't work under any pretenses here — everything is done with a view to present ideas (new and old) in a different form. Getting under one's skin in a playful and jest-laden way is part and parcel of this particular blog and its author. But, at some point, the author would also like the readers of his blog to give a bit (teeny weeny bit) of thought to his ideas and views, ergo, to consider where he's coming from, no matter how right wing, elitist or plain authoritarian he may seem. Legitimising his quest is the fact that he offers mere opinions, not gospel truth and nor does he claim to.

Sidenote to non-Pawan persons: Please check the post titled Of self-righteousness and glass stomachs for a clearer understanding of why "Pawan" is so riled with the creator and preserver of this blog. Now, without further ado, here is his response:

Pawan said...

You confronting to "little Indian" in a way shows that you like to argue without anything to support your arguments. Since his post maybe against your ideology , you have gone ahead and ridculed him and also not proved anything .I hope you lear from Little Indian of how to present the facts,instead of Yellow Journalism

Pawan

www.thekashmir.wordpress.com

Now, I did say earlier that the aim was to get under everyone's skin in jest. There is, however an exception and that would be the self-righteous jackass (really hurts you when I call you that, doesn't it?) that is little indian. There is no jesting with someone as screwy as you — a creature who believes his research is the final word on all research and that all opinions that differ from his are baseless. Speaking of baseless, I'm yet to see any official evidence of his "facts". Yeah Pawan, where does he have anything to support his arguments? At least I have reason behind me. What does that moron have, minus pig-headed self-righteousness and atrocious grammar? Not that yours is anything spectacular either, Pawan. After all no one "confronts to" anyone else. You confront someone.

As for proving anything, that wasn't my point. Not all of us are here to convince ourselves that we've proved something and pat ourselves on the back about the fabulous job we've done. "Yeah! That'll show them! They'll never mess with me and my immaculate understanding again." Maybe that helps you sleep better at night, but some of us like to question and dig for answers, as opposed to buying second hand views from a second hand guy wearing second hand shoes (I can only assume).

Furthermore, Pawan, are you aware of what "yellow journalism" is? I didn't think you would be, so here goes... More than just a buzz-word that you and your "revolution-making" buddies love to employ (along with the word "propaganda", of course), it refers to sensationalist, jingoistic and scandal-mongering journalism. Where, in what I can only assume to be your infinite wisdom do you find any hint of jingoism, sensationalism or scandal-mongering in my post, Pawan? Or are you going to respond to that with another stream of gibberish along the lines of "The Indian media has you brainwashed, you are a victim of propaganda!!"? However, your gibberish will be very poorly worded, I'm sure. Here's something you should look up, though: Scientology. Their PR officers are just as idiotic as you when it comes to responding to people who express disagreement with their ways, just as I'm doing with your "holier than thou" claims.

Finally, onto my ideology, which "his post" allegedly went against. You're damn right it did! I believe in free speech. I believe in awakening. I believe a person can see something that can change his/her perspective. Unlike you and your little indian friend who believe that they came out of the womb with an encyclopedia on Kashmir. Obviously, you did. There's no point denying it. Some of us were born as normal babies, who grew to be normal human beings, with human tendencies to seek out information and adapt our responses accordingly. I believe I have wasted enough time ruminating on your anal-retentive blog and your moronic response.

My advice to you: Buy an English grammar text book and get a life!

Hugs and kisses,

Karan Pradhan

P.S. - Just thought that I'd let you know that I had a wee tête-à-tête with your hero, little indian and his take went as follows below. Oh yeah, so that you don't get confused, the red annotations are mine, Pawan:

To

Mr Karan Pradhan

As I have stated earlier,
I have the right to refuse to publish any comments on this issue.

I am NOT publishing yours. (oh, boo-hoo!)

You have a platform (that you call your “blog”) (and a damn good one at that; check out my cool tunes) where you make your feelings offensivly clear about any person who opposes your propaganda on Kashmir (last time I checked, I wasn't guilty of your deeds, so don't tag your failings onto me)

Instead of fouling (I believe it's "befouling" and it would be tough to do that after you've done such a great job of it yourself) my blogspage, please use your ownsite with whatever you wish to say; or anything against my writing There it will be better appreciated by your likeminded friends, the Pakistani sympathisers. Not on my site.

As I have said before,
I have full trust in my readers to decide for themselves
what is unbiased and true and what is propaganda.
(And as I have said before, you are a jackass)