Dr Faustus

Thanks to Dr Arun Gupto for clarifying the issues of marginality, representation, and subaltern studies based on an emotional outburst of a Madhesi student’s reading of the ‘Ghanachakkar’ ( Post, Feb. 10).

Despite himself being a ‘Madhesi’ professor ( sorry Arun, I know you’ll be hurt to be addressed like this; but even in the US, one’s still judged by the color of the skin, than by the contents of the character), Dr Gupto seems concerned that Sudeep’s angst  and inferiority complex might send wrong signals to the people(not only Madhesi) at large.

Sudeep, too, deserves commendation for venting out his frustrations that provoked Dr Gupto to write such a soothingly illuminating article on a taboo subject in the University.

It’d be even more exciting to read Dr Gupto’s insights into his colleague Dr Beerendra Pandey’s article on Madhes, in which Dr Pandey had suggested a coalition of armed and non-armed groups in Madhes to defeat the Pahadi mentality of the state.