[Reader-list] Statement by Arundhati Roy

Wed Oct 27 14:32:58 IST 2010

Are you the moderator? Just curious again. You indeed have a big hand.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tapas Ray [Gmail] <tapasrayx at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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