[Reader-list] Statement by Arundhati Roy

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Isn't she a Fiction writer? Or is she really a writer? Just curious.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Rajkamal Goswami <rajkamalgoswami at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I am just in awe of this woman.
>
> On 10/27/10, Tapas Ray [Gmail] <tapasrayx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Pheeta,
> >
> > No problem, and no need to apologise!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Tapas
> >
> > On 27 October 2010 09:07, Pheeta Ram <pheeta.ram at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Dear Tapas
> >> Actually the statement was sent to me by somebody. I forgot to check if
> it
> >> had already been published online; that's why there was no link. Thanks
> >> for
> >> reminding me the etiquettes of responsible online publishing.
> >> I shall take care next time.
> >> Pheeta Ram
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Tapas Ray [Gmail] <tapasrayx at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Pheeta,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for this. I think it would be good if we gave the links along
> >>> with any material from online sources that we might be posting. This
> >>> one's is
> >>> <
> http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/arundhati-roys-statement-on-possible-sedition-case-62566
> >.
> >>> As for offline sources (e.g., printed books, etc.), a mention of the
> >>> source, as complete as possible, would be very helpful.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks again.
> >>>
> >>> Tapas
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 27 October 2010 02:10, Pheeta Ram <pheeta.ram at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > STATEMENT BY ARUNDHATI ROY
> >>> >
> >>> > I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I
> >>> > may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent
> >>> > public meetings on Kashmir. I said what millions of people here say
> >>> > every day. I said what I, as well as other commentators have written
> >>> > and said for years. Anybody who cares to read the transcripts of my
> >>> > speeches will see that they were fundamentally a call for justice. I
> >>> > spoke about justice for the people of Kashmir who live under one of
> >>> > the most brutal military occupations in the world; for Kashmiri
> >>> > Pandits who live out the tragedy of having been driven out of their
> >>> > homeland; for Dalit soldiers killed in Kashmir whose graves I visited
> >>> > on garbage heaps in their villages in Cuddalore; for the Indian poor
> >>> > who pay the price of this occupation in material ways and who are now
> >>> > learning to live in the terror of what is becoming a police state.
> >>> >
> >>> > Yesterday I traveled to Shopian, the apple-town in South Kashmir
> which
> >>> > had remained closed for 47 days last year in protest against the
> >>> > brutal rape and murder of Asiya and Nilofer, the young women whose
> >>> > bodies were found in a shallow stream near their homes and whose
> >>> > murderers have still not been brought to justice. I met Shakeel, who
> >>> > is Nilofer’s husband and Asiya’s brother.  We sat in a circle of
> >>> > people crazed with grief and anger who had lost hope that they would
> >>> > ever get ‘insaf’—justice—from India, and now believed that
> >>> > Azadi—freedom— was their only hope. I met young stone pelters who had
> >>> > been shot through their eyes. I traveled with a young man who told me
> >>> > how three of his friends, teenagers in Anantnag district, had been
> >>> > taken into custody and had their finger-nails pulled out as
> punishment
> >>> > for throwing stones.
> >>> >
> >>> > In the papers some have accused me of giving ‘hate-speeches’, of
> >>> > wanting India to break up. On the contrary, what I say comes from
> love
> >>> > and pride. It comes from not wanting people to be killed, raped,
> >>> > imprisoned or have their finger-nails pulled out in order to force
> >>> > them to say they are Indians. It comes from wanting to live in a
> >>> > society that is striving to be a just one. Pity the nation that has
> to
> >>> > silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that
> >>> > needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass
> >>> > murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey
> >>> > on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
> >>> >
> >>> > Arundhati Roy
> >>> >
> >>> > October 26 2010
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