[Reader-list] Arundhati Roy 'uncomfortable' to condemn violence!

[S. Jabbar]

I watched the video and it's totally misleading.

Not one panelist called himself a Maoist sympathizer and Dilip Simeon even
points out to the misleading headline over all 3 panelists-- even Praveen
Swami of all people!!

All 3 panelists condemned Maoist violence.  Sumit Chakravarty makes a
distinction between tribals taking up arms and the Maoists, but even he
unequivocally condemns beheadings and summary executions.

Arundhati Roy was absent in both videos.  Arnab Goswami makes a reference to
her discomfort in a press conference which we never see...

Where was the embarrassment and where were the Maoist sympathizers?
What a total waste of time and so typical of the hysteria that Times Now
tries to pass off as responsible journalism.


> From: "A.K. Malik" <akmalik45 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:26:41 -0800 (PST)
> To: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> Cc: <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Arundhati Roy 'uncomfortable' to condemn violence!
> 
> Dear Mr Kaul,
               In the TV visuals the embarrassment was writ
> large on the faces of the sympatizers. May be once taken sides, they seem to
> be scared to go against the Maoists.Such people need more condemnation than
> the ordinary mortals.
Regards,

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Fri, 3/5/10, Aditya Raj
> Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Aditya Raj Kaul
> <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Arundhati Roy
> 'uncomfortable' to condemn violence!
> To: "sarai list"
> <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 11:33 PM
> *Debate:
> Sympathisers looking
> uncomfortable*
> 
> *Courtesy: Times Now*
> 
> Last
> evening, Maoist terrorists shot a rape victim who went
> to lodge a
>
> complaint against them. They even murdered a poor factory
> worker because
> his
> owner refused to pay a ramsom. Today, Maoists sympathizers
> held a
> press
> conference in New Delhi against the government's 'Operation
>
> Greenhunt', and
> when confronted with direct questions on Maoist terror,
> the
> defence was weak
> to say the least. They give unconvincing replies on
> Maoist
> violence.
> 
> TIMES NOW Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami debates the
> issue
> of ideology of the
> Maoists and Maoist sympathisers avoiding pointed
> questions
> with Dilip
> Simeon, Writer and Research Scholar; Praveen Swami,
>
> Associate Editor, 'The
> Hindu' and Sumit Chakravartty Editor, 'Mainstream'.
>
> 
> 
> Link -
> 
> http://www.timesnow.tv/Debate-Sympathisers-looking-uncomfortable-1/videoshow/4
> 339945.cms
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