[Reader-list] Statement by Arundhati Roy

Inder Salim indersalim at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 17:47:01 IST 2010 

I guess people in India will read her only after she gets Nobel for literature.
which she deserves


love
is


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Rajkamal Goswami
<rajkamalgoswami at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Aditya
>
> I am sure yo know about her fictional work 1 novel & 1 screenplay. But
> I am not sure if you have read her non-fictional work. Well she didn't
> win booker for them but she won the "Sydney Peace Prize" and the
> "Sahitya Akademi award" which she politely refused. Her body of non
> fiction work is far greater (both in volume and quality) than her
> fictional work. I hope you have read her work. If not please read
> atleast the essential Roy viz "The greater common good", the "Algebra
> of Infinite justice", "Come September", Do Turkeys Enjoy
> Thanksgiving", "Peace is War", "Listening To Grasshoppers", "Shall We
> Leave It to the Experts?" and my favorite  “The Ladies have feelings
> so…”  You should definitely read the last one because it answers your
> query about the very questions that you have raised.
>
> Regarding a fiction writer being political, well all writers are
> political. That some chose to remain silent is also a political
> activity. That Ms. Roy choses to write her politics and throw it open
> to ideas and criticism is the best thing I really like about her.
> Besides she is also indulged in field activism, giving her voice to
> the voiceless and rooting for real democracy.
>
> Thanks
> r
>
> On 10/27/10, 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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