[Reader-list] Statement by Arundhati Roy

Tapas Ray [Gmail] tapasrayx at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 14:50:42 IST 2010


No, just a member of the audience awestruck by your brilliance.


On 27 October 2010 14:32, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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