[Reader-list] Statement by Arundhati Roy

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Childish essays mocking the existence of a nation. At a point when her
writing career is sagging, she is being pulled up from downhill by
anti-India separatists to existence. Pity the so called rhetoric writer!

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Zulfiya Hamzaki <zulfi14 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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