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

Thu Dec 2 08:50:53 IST 2010

thanks dear Ana

i was part of the Seminar ( in LTG in delhi ) which found Roy and
others guilty of sedition with regard to Kashmir. I did some action in
solidarity with Kashmir issue, and they could have easily booked me as
well.

 I was reflecting Pheeta Ram's post about the Court's action against
Roy and others.So layers begin to unfold, which is quite different in
texture than those who want her PUNISHED for her word uttered. I am
personally looking for more such brave hearts who dare to speak the
truth and force the Govt to do something in Kashmir. There is a
terrible 0.7 milion security personal there and more and 100 young
person were killed for very petty reasons or no reason at all. Laws in
Kashmir are such that no action can be initiated against the erring
police man with finger on the trigger.

Few years back i did a little action at India Gate ( Delhi ) against
the death penalty, organized by Amnesty International. I was instantly
picked with other 5 activists by the police for one day custody and
released after we assured them not to do anything in that space again.

Here, the Kashmir issue , which has attracted the attention of
millions across the country has given a rod to the Right ( hindu )
winged party workers  to spread lies about Roy's speech.  How people
take interest in what Roy actually said is almost blurred. that need
some restoration, and i believe, the youth in Kashmir valley will be
benefited a lot by reading her books. Paradoxically, yes, the present
FIR against Roy and others will boost that, i guess.

love
is

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Ana Valdes <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Inder, thanks for your sage words. When I am defending Roys right to speak I think I speak om behalf of all people, writers or not, who need and dream with the possibility to express themselves without fear to be imprisoned.
> Kashmir is unknown for me, I am defending here principal issues.
> Best
> Ana
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 1 dec 2010 kl. 19:51 skrev Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear Ana,
>> thanks for ur comment.
>>
>> who would love to go to prison, none to my mind, but the debate the
>> deeper perhaps,
>> let us see how it looks going to school almost going like to a prison,
>> 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, churn out some possibility of unpredictable to
>> eject us out a little from these prison like societies, which dont
>> 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 talked 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 a very 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 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....
>>
>> 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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