[Reader-list] Terrorist Maoist Sympathizer Arundhati Roy promotes secession

[Pawan Durani]

Shuddha ,

The likes with whom you shared the stage talks volumes of your character .

Pawan

On 10/22/10, Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net> wrote:
> This is a preposterous lie, and the author of the so called 'report'
> in the Pioneer can be sued for libel. I can vouch for this as i was
> there. Arundhati's speech was recorded, and anyone who is interested
> can have access to the recording.
>
> Arundhati Roy in fact said - that "the one slogan that she heard
> sometimes in Kashmir that deeply saddened her was 'Bhookha Nanga
> Hindustan, Jaan se Pyaara Pakistan'. (India is Naked and Hungrly,
> Pakistan is dearer to us than Life').
>
> She categorically voiced her opposition to such a slogan, in fact she
> invoked it in order to strongly condemn such a sentiment, and went on
> to say that the people of Kashmir must realize that it is the
> 'bhookha - nanga' , the naked and the hungry, the poor and the
> oppressed of India, who people in Kashmir must stand in solidarity
> with. This was enthusiastically applauded. She called upon the
> struggling people of Kashmir NOT to be selective in their choice of
> injustices to struggle against. She called for a solidarity between
> struggles for justice in Kashmir, and in India, and the world. To
> suggest that she gave a call for 'Azadi' from 'bhookha nanga' India,
> is to twist her words, and to say the virtually the very opposite of
> what she meant - which was a joining of hands of the struggles of the
> working poor  for justice in India and the struggles for liberty in
> Kashmir.
>
> Aditya Raj Kaul, by offering up this disinformation, has once again
> proved his true character on this list. I think this is a matter of
> shame, and should be condemned by all. It is one thing to be critical
> of a viewpoint, which everyone has a right to be, and it is quite
> another to disinform and lie.
>
> best
>
> Shuddha
>
>
>
> On 22-Oct-10, at 1:44 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul wrote:
>
>> *Arundhati promotes secession*
>> *
>> October 22, 2010*
>>
>> *Deepak K Jha | New Delhi*
>> *
>> The Pioneer
>>
>> Link - http://www.dailypioneer.com/291392/Arundhati-promotes-
>> secession.html
>> *
>> *Says ‘Kashmir should get Azadi from bhookhe-nange Hindustan’*
>>
>> Kashmir should get Azadi from bhookhe-nange Hindustan,” said
>> Arundhati Roy
>> at a seminar where the Maoists hosted Kashmir secessionist leader
>> Syed Ali
>> Shah Geelani, which witnessed large scale protests by Kashmiri
>> Pandits. A
>> large number of protesters were detained at the behest of
>> Parliament House
>> attack accused SAR Gilani, who moderated the seminar promoting
>> secession in
>> the heart of the national Capital on Thursday.
>>
>> The seminar was disrupted many a time when author-activist
>> Arundhati Roy, a
>> known Maoist sympathiser, openly preached secession while
>> expressing her
>> views and urging the audience comprising Kashmiri youth, students
>> from AMU
>> and also from DU to stand up and fight for the cause of a separate
>> Kashmir
>> and to get a fair play in the name of “Idea of Justice”.
>>
>> “India needs Azadi from Kashmir and Kashmir from India. It is a
>> good debate
>> that has started. We must deepen this conversation and am happy
>> that young
>> people are getting involved for this cause which is their future.
>> Indian
>> Government is a hollow super power and I disassociate with it,” Roy
>> said
>> amid great applause from separatists. “Earlier we used to talk
>> about our
>> head held high and now we lay prostrate to the US,” she added.
>> Referring to
>> one of her earlier writings, Roy mentioned that Kashmiris have to
>> decide
>> whether they want to be with or get separated from “bhookhe-nange
>> Hindustan
>> where more than 830 million people live on Rs 20 per day only”.
>>
>> Espousing the separatist cause, Roy also said that in the early 90s
>> India
>> opened two gates - one for the Babri Masjid issue and the other for
>> the
>> economy. “We ushered in two kinds of totalitarianism. One the Hindu
>> totalitarians and the other economic totalitarian,” she said.
>>
>> The convention on ‘Azadi — The Only Way’ organised by Committee for
>> the
>> Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP), was being attended by a
>> number of
>> sympathisers of Kashmiri separatists and Naxalites. The moment Geelani
>> arrived to speak, the protesters numbering around 70 shouted
>> slogans asking
>> him to leave along with those demanding separate Kashmir. Amid
>> pandemonium
>> inside the LTG Auditorium, the protesters shouted slogans like
>> ‘Bharat Mata
>> Ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ several times when various speakers
>> expressed
>> their views and opinions driving towards a separate Kashmir.
>>
>> At least 50 of the protesters, including those from Roots to
>> Kashmir and
>> Panun Kashmir were detained by the police and released late in the
>> evening.
>> At the time of the protest, SAR Geelani, a lecturer in Delhi
>> University who
>> was accused in the Parliament attack case but later set free, was
>> speaking
>> on the topic. Besides Geelani, other participants in the seminar
>> included
>> writer and activist Arundhati Roy, senior journalist Najeeb Mubaraki,
>> Telangana activist Varvara Rao, president of the CRPP Gursharan Singh
>> (represented by his daughter due to Singh’s ill health), media critic
>> Shuddabrata Sengupta, and separatists from Manipur and Nagaland in the
>> six-hour-long programme.
>>
>> “This is atrocious. It is happening right in the Capital of the
>> country when
>> a few people are talking to break the secular ethos of the country.
>> We stand
>> for united India. I do not know why the country’s administration is
>> pampering them in the name of Islam. Kashmir belongs to all,
>> including the
>> Kashmiri Pandits and we will do all to safeguard that interest,”
>> said Aditya
>> Raj Kaul, one of the protesters who led a group of young students and
>> professionals condemning the seminar called and moderated by Gilani
>> and a
>> group of Naxal sympathisers.
>>
>> Emotions erupted and tempers ran high amid a group of Kashmiri
>> Pandits there
>> to listen to the opinion when Roy said that: “I am also aware of
>> the stories
>> about Kashmiri Pandits. I must tell you that Panun Kashmir is a false
>> group”. Taken aback by this statement, 65-year-old Nancy Kaul stood
>> up and
>> questioned the sanctity of Roy’s statement. Kaul was joined by a
>> few others
>> echoing the sentiments of Kashmiri Pandits and other displaced
>> persons from
>> Jammu and Kashmir. Nancy was also attacked by a young person,
>> probably from
>> the north-east who also misbehaved with her and threw the paper
>> material
>> Kaul was carrying with her. “Jis thali mein kha rahey hain usi
>> thali eein
>> ched kar rahey hain yain yes log,” Kaul and others shouted pointing
>> towards
>> Roy and other speakers. The police had to be called again to pacify
>> the
>> small group of protesters and a large group of members advocating
>> Azadi.
>>
>> While urging Kashmiris to boycott interlocutors, Syed Ali Shah Geelani
>> rejected the eight-point agenda rolled out by the Centre for
>> defusing crisis
>> in the Valley. Though saying that the people of Kashmir are not
>> against any
>> dialogue, the Hurriyat leader said the talks should be on the core
>> issue and
>> Pakistan should also be involved in the discussions. “The dialogue
>> should
>> not be bilateral. India, Pakistan and representatives of people of
>> Jammu and
>> Kashmir should sit together with the reference of sacrifices made by
>> Kashmiris during the last 63 years. Indian Government has to accept
>> our
>> five-point agenda, then only we will initiate talks with
>> interlocutors,
>> otherwise I ask Kashmiris to boycott them,” said the separatist
>> leader.
>>
>> The hardline leader added that since 1947, 150 such dialogues have
>> been held
>> but without any result, we will not participate in any discussions
>> until our
>> five-point agenda is accepted by India. “Our five points are --
>> first Indian
>> security forces should be withdrawn from J&K under UN supervision.
>> Political
>> prisoners be released, cases should be registered against the
>> killers of 111
>> innocent people, who had been killed during the last four months.
>> Remember,
>> we are not against Indian or India, we want the rights to
>> self-determination,” said Geelani.
>>
>> SAR Geelani, who moderated the session, said the demand of Kashmir
>> Azadi not
>> only meant the Kashmir Valley but the entire Jammu and Kashmir,
>> Ladakh,
>> Muzzafarabad, Baltistan and Mirpur.
>>
>> Dal Khalsa leader Kanwar Pal Singh used the occasion to criticise the
>> Government, including Prime Minister Manmohan whom he labeled is
>> anti-Sikh.
>> He also took the opportunity to criticise the Indian judiciary and the
>> audience yelled “Shame Shame India, Shame Shame Courts Here”. “The
>> Supreme
>> Court and High Courts are for the bahu-betis only. What a ridiculous
>> judgement was given by the Supreme Court regarding the Parliament
>> attack
>> case and observations made on Afzal Guru. The recent Ayodhya case is a
>> stupid judgement in which facts were not taken into account but
>> only faith
>> ka khaas khayal rakha gaya.”
>>
>> The Naga and Manipuri leaders said that like Manipur and Nagaland,
>> Kashmir
>> was also never part of India. “To be a part during freedom struggle
>> does not
>> mean that we express solidarity to be united with India. We also need
>> freedom as we were free before 1947. What is the problem to India
>> when we
>> say we want freedom,” said a speaker from Naga People’s Movement
>> for Human
>> Rights and Justice.
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