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

[Havan Munmaani]

I'm just amused that Aditya Raj Kaul still pretends that The Pioneer is still a newspaper. He must be the only person in the world who reads it. But then again, as the "India Editor" of the "Indian, Australia", Mr Kaul cannot afford to discriminate against newspapers that no one reads.

The other thing I dont get what everyone is so scared about. Arundhati says "Azaadi" - so what yaar? Is the fear that too many people will find the call to secession too appealing?

Of course, the answer then can only be to clamp down further on people who are already chafing under the writ of the state. It makes complete sense - for managing such a brilliant, widely read and non partisan paper, full of such insight, I think we should nominate the editor of The Pioneer to the Rajya Sabha. Hold on wait; Dammit, the BJP beat us to it.

Koi nahin yaar, Perhaps Mr Kaul and his fellow readers of choice could look to an intellectual from another great power for advice on when to let go. 

Presenting Mr Rick Astley - world famous political theorist from UK.
To quote from his Most Popular Work on secession, freedom and persistence, the haunting prose of "Never Gonna Give You Up":

"We're no strangers to love 
You know the rules and so do I 
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of 
You wouldn't get this from any other guy "

Never gonna give you up 
Never gonna let you down 
Never gonna run around and desert you 
Never gonna make you cry 
Never gonna say goodbye 
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you"

Once you learn the dance moves too, I suggest you approach the secessionists once more. Me thinks they will immediately assimilate.
and remember, Havan loves you, 

Havan Munmaani
Full time Patriot and Nationalist




--- On Fri, 22/10/10, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Terrorist Maoist Sympathizer Arundhati Roy promotes secession
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Friday, 22 October, 2010, 8:14 AM
> *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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