[Reader-list] Statement by Arundhati Roy

[Zulfiya Hamzaki]

Dear Aditya,

A fiction writer is *really* a writer too. Other than fiction, Roy is a an
active political writer. You can have a look at her political essays in her
books "The Algebra of Infinite Justice" and "An Ordinary Person's Guide to
Empire".

Regards,
Zulfiya

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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