[Reader-list] Statement by Arundhati Roy

Wed Oct 27 14:31:27 IST 2010

ps: I mean, to Aditya.

On 27 October 2010 14:30, Tapas Ray [Gmail] <tapasrayx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Really intelligent comment. Let's give him a big hand!
>
> On 27 October 2010 14:23, 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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