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

Thu Dec 2 00:36:05 IST 2010

While one feels angry and sad that Arundhati Roy, Shuddhabrata
Sengupta will have to run the rounds of the courts (and the case for
sure is weak given the case law on sedition), one must applaud Roy,
Sengupta and others for taking the stance they did, for speaking what
they believed in, not once but again and again over the years, despite
knowing that some nut will one day try and do this. I think all of us
who are not with these nuts should salute their courage.

Having said that, I think in the coming days one will also have to
thank these nuts for doing this - imagine the amount of publicity it
will further give t their views, imagine the international uproar
about free speech in India, imagine how this will make people the
world over discuss the issue of Kashmir's demand for azadi even more.
So, thank you!

On 2 December 2010 00:28, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
> some  mistakes here or there, so re posted, plz ignore the previous
>
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> 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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