It has come to my notice that after I called out Gayatri Spivak for her arrogant and casteist behaviour against me in her lecture, another Bengali Bhadralok Bamani has come to the rescue and defence of Spivak .

Bose wrote an opinion piece on the digital media website Scroll titled

“Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and the democratic politics of pronunciation

A controversy broke out on social media when Spivak corrected a student’s pronunciation of WEB Du Bois’s name – after explaining why.”


Let’s begin with the title of her opinion piece itself, which is nothing but a pilloried attempt to act in solidarity with her caste brethren.

Despite being ample proof in the video which I have shared on micro blogging website X (formerly Twitter) that Spivak was being rude against me and humiliating me in from of the entire auditorium, Bose deliberately chose to keep the title of her opinion as “Gayatri Spivak and Democratic Politics of Pronunciation “

Is shutting down a young student for his pronunciation a “democratic politics of pronunciation”? I guess you all know better.

Bose writes “about her alleged “arrogance” directed at a “subaltern” student”.

She is clearly taking side with Spivak here by not accepting that she was arrogant. On the other hand she is absolving her by terming her arrogance as “alleged”.

I must make you all aware of the video which I have shared on my X (formerly Twitter)account and see to if it was not absolute arrogance and not “alleged” arrogance on part of  Spivak in rebuking, chiding and reprimanding me for my pronunciation.

Then how is it that Bose is going to the extent of calling her arrogance as alleged.
It shows she is trying very hard to defend her fellow Bhodrolok Bengali Brahmin.

And that too despite her claiming that she was sitting right next to where I stood in the auditorium.

If she was sitting right next to me, why didn’t she bother to tell the readers what actually happened in those five minutes of arrogance displayed by Spivak against me?

Why did she choose to focus only on the content of the lecture given by Spivak. In a sense Bose has transcribed the entire lecture in order to make a case for defending Spivak.


Bose writes “A lecture against arrogance
Interestingly, and ironically enough, in talking about the acknowledgement of complicity, Spivak’s lecture was against arrogance – the arrogance of taking an “I am Right, You are Wrong” position when the matter is contradictory and complicated – by citing Du Bois as an exemplary case.”


What is ironic here is that Bose has subtitled Spivak’s lecture as a Lecture against arrogance and we all know from the video I have shared already how arrogant Spivak was in her demeanor in correcting my pronunciation.

Bose also makes a point that Spivak’s lecture was against the practice of taking a “I am right and You are wrong” position.

Behold thyself for the unimaginable irony my friends. Do I need to reiterate that during her entire five minutes of shouting on me Spivak was hell bent on “I am right and You are wrong” kind of attitude. Then by what logic has Bose argued that Spivak’s lecture was against arrogance of “I am right and you are wrong”?


Bose argues that Spivak has explained the politics of pronunciation that involved Du Bois’s pronunciation in her lecture and that was Du Bois’s insistence on his name being pronounced as “Du Boys” as in English as against “Du Bwaah” as in French as a mark of protest against French Colonialism owing to Du Bois Haitian (a French colony ) origins.

But Both Bose is deliberately defending Spivak through this politics of pronunciation which stands nowhere close to me as I am nowhere in any context between French and English Colonialism. For me Both French and English are Foreign and in fact the politics of pronunciation was in a context which was Du Bois’s protest against French Colonialism. How that context becomes so important in a third world country that it can justify interrupting me thrice for my pronunciation is something that I can’t fathom.


Bose even went to the extent of accusing me of my lying about Bihari Lal Bhaduri being Great Grandfather of Spivak.

Bose wrote which has now been edited after my complaint to the executive editor of Scroll, that “  such a lineage of privilege. Apparently, however, Bihari Lal Bhaduri was no relative of Spivak’s at all, merely a friend of a relative.”

This paragraph has thus been deleted and edited by the publisher.

I am attaching the article here in which Spivak has herself claimed that She was great granddaughter of Bihari Lal Bhaduri.

So now the question is what made Bose defend Spivak with so much rigor if not the caste solidarity among Brahmins.




https://scroll.in/article/1068311/opinion-gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-and-the-democratic-politics-of-pronunciation


https://sfonline.barnard.edu/heilbrun/spivak_01.htm