{"id":31485,"date":"2018-10-27T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31485"},"modified":"2018-10-27T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:49:01","slug":"the-anatomy-of-another-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-anatomy-of-another-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"The anatomy of another riot\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/the-anatomy-of-another-riot\/article22661668.ece\"><b>The anatomy of another riot<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A riot is no longer an act of production where the narrative <\/span><b>focusses on causes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But an <\/span><b>act of consumption<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where a <\/span><b>variety of narratives create a quilt patch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> we call history.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Kasganj riot:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first sight, the Kasganj riot is presented as an <\/span><b>archetypal riot around a standard scenario of small differences<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, two angry communities and a stumbling bureaucracy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet what brings irony and confounds this narrative is the communal and the national confronted each other to prove that <\/span><b>patriotism today is not a secular loyalty but a majoritarian definition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The nature of narrative is <\/span><b>no longer about solidarity but about communal accounting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Nature of riots:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Riots today are always <\/span><b>enacted twice<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, once on the <\/span><b>streets and once through video clips<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One is tempted to modify the <\/span><b>Marxist quote and add once as history and second time as a farce<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anatomy of another riot\u00a0 Context: A riot is no longer an act of production where the narrative focusses on causes. But an act of consumption where a variety of narratives create a quilt patch we call history. Kasganj riot: At first sight, the Kasganj riot is presented as an archetypal riot around a standard&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-anatomy-of-another-riot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The anatomy of another riot\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704580474},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}