[Reader-list] PUT ARUNDHATI IN JAIL ON SEDITION CHARGES! HURRAH!

Thu Dec 2 00:28:14 IST 2010

some  mistakes here or there, so re posted, plz ignore the previous


On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Ana,
> thanks for ur comment.
>
> who would love to go to prison, none to my mind, but the debate is a little
> deeper perhaps,
> let us see how going to school amounts almost going to a prison almost

> i think more terrible than that. Then the entire system of society
> looks like Foucalut's Panopticon. That is that.
>
> When we see conflict zones, for me it is not depressing to live there
> even. There is hope, churns out some possibility of 'unpredictable' to
> eject us out a little from these prison like societies, which
> look very peaceful on the surface. That is that again
>
> Here, we are directly talking about a conflict ( kashmir issue ) which
> is already so complex and hence a vital need to intensify the
> discourse on it, at all levels, which somehow has not happened in the
> valley itself.
>
> Roy is perhaps the first writer who intensified the debate around "
> Azadi" ( freedom ) in kashmir itself. She talks about rights for
> everybody in a new free kashmir , for homosexuals, for feminists
> movements, for minorities and others. To my mind, her very presence
>and her charged and lucid address at LTG gave an edge to the
> seminar, reverberations of which one can feel in the media as well.
>
> The reaction was inevitable, given the position of the State of India
> which is caught in the crises of not giving an inch to the freedom
> seekers, and at the same time look more democratic.
>
> in the present Scenario, i feel more and more Kashmiri  youths  looking at the
> Kashmir issue very critically than they ever thought even, That is why
> i wrote, writer's loss is perhaps people's gain. the history is
> witness to that, here and elsewhere
>
> love
> is
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Ana Valdes <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am still apalled for the lack of sensibility and callouness of some people in this list, which I believed was an arena for important and vital discussions about Art and society.
>> I has been four years in prison for political reasons and I can assure the prison didn't give my writing à sharper edge, but à pain for life.
>> That someone in this list can wish à term in prison for à writer is beyond my imagination.
>> Ana, working in the Pen club since many years to take out all writers from the prisons
>>
>> Skickat från min iPhone
>>
>> 1 dec 2010 kl. 19:14 skrev Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> "A stint in jail shall definitely bring a sharper and weighty edge to her
>>>> writing"
>>>
>>> interesting line by Pheeta ji
>>>
>>> going to prison is not actually a terrible thing to experience,
>>> particularly for political prisoners...... i have cherished memories
>>> from my fortnights stint at Sringar Jail during college days in 70s
>>>
>>> . The situation out there in reality is sometimes as grim as prison
>>> itself. and if one has power to transform that experience into more
>>> exhaustive understanding of what we are, how to act ....the of course
>>> this is not then on another planet.
>>>
>>> the other point, paradoxical , the writer's loss is audience's gains
>>> here, because i see  interest in Roy increasing many folds in Kashmir
>>> and else where, which is actually good for young minds in Kashmir. who
>>> will be more critical in their thought.which is good for all,
>>>
>>> let us wait and watch, the case of this sedition charge, looks weak on
>>> legally,  and will only crawl for years, if at all the right wing
>>> jingoistic group is keen enough to push it, but finally i see the case
>>> will almost disappear at the door of Supreme Court.
>>>
>>> But meanwhile i too count the benefits of this FIR.
>>> holding such meetings will be a problem which is their gain, sadly
>>> but i hope the intellectual base for right understanding of Kashmir
>>> issue increases too, in India and abroad
>>>
>>> love
>>> is
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Parvaiz Bukhari
>>> <parvaizbukhari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Absent conscience replaced by bad sense of humor...could this be an Indian
>>>> theory???
>>>>
>>>> On 1 December 2010 16:45, Pheeta Ram <pheeta.ram at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Hungaama hai kyun barpa?"
>>>>> [Why all this hullabaloo...?]
>>>>>
>>>>> LET ARUNDHATI BE PUT IN JAIL ON SEDITION CHARGES.
>>>>>
>>>>> As someone said," Uska dimaag thikaane [thikaana: a place of security and
>>>>> responsibility; a greater proximity to the rooted reality, a sharper edge]
>>>>> aa jaegaa!"
>>>>>
>>>>> A stint in jail shall definitely bring a sharper and weighty edge to her
>>>>> writing. She shall find her 'thikaana'  for sure which we have been feeling
>>>>> a sure lack of in most of her work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let us all eagerly wait for her much anticipated next classic after The God
>>>>> of Small Things: "THE PRISON NOTEBOOKS by Arundhati Roy".
>>>>>
>>>>> Till then i should finish my "Intimations of a Nobel Prize: A Curious Tale
>>>>> of a Dumb/Smart State." Some point later in time, Wikileaks would release
>>>>> another batch of US Embassy (INDIA) files (titled: Indian State: Nobel
>>>>> Conspiracies) which would reveal to us United States' novel conspiracy
>>>>> theories as to how the Indian State, under a super-classified strategy,
>>>>> implicated Arundhati Roy in false 'sedition' charges in order to win
>>>>> another
>>>>> Nobel Prize for an Indian national who paradoxically claimed to be a
>>>>> 'mobile
>>>>> republic.'
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers All
>>>>>
>>>>> Pheeta Ram
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