[Reader-list] Statement by Arundhati Roy

Wed Oct 27 19:22:00 IST 2010

Samvit,

Are you saying that lecherous bastards do not have a philosophy? You are
undermining your own kinds? What were you doing in that gymnasium? trying to
play the peeping tom..huh?

Warm regards
Anupam

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks dear Samvit
>
> how many saner voices you think are left in india?
> who, is there who talks about poor, their rights and their significance?
> Who is there who talks about happiness for all, not on paper but
> actually going there, studying their problems. Dont you think that we
> need to preserve our forsts and the people who are living in that
> system?
>
> who in your mind deserves an applause? The people who cut forests, do
> reckless mining in the name development with no respect to their
> shrines and ecosystem which sustained them thousands and thousand of
> years. What is ur definition of main stream ? It is road rolling of
> pebbles called ordinary human beings...
>
> the people at the helm in India are busy misappropriate funds to buy
> properties here and abroad. take any corporate, and see how how they
> have bungled with nationalized banks. Each one of them have tricked
> the system.... i have really lost faith in the white colored
> bureaucrat and the politicians who plays the role of a middle man
> between the contractor and the administrator
>
> The system is sick with children of living and dead politicians coming
> to power,  running to grab the seats of democracy.
>
> The problem with India is that only poor people love this country, it
> culture and its diversity,  the rest of middle class and upper middle
> class are constantly thinking to grab the opportunity and run out and
> settle abraod, or by pass the norms.... We use the people like we use
> toilet paper, that is why there is child labour, there is bride
> burning, there is attack on dalits, there is oppression against
> muslims... it not about Hindu India, it just happens that the system
> is run by upper caste Hindus, sad.....
>
> just tell me which sector is healthy in India.  What is the level of
> contamination in food, medicine etc... forget abouit justice in our
> country. It is worse for the poor,  forget good education, it is all
> meant for people who have access to public schools....
>
> Imagine, Delhi  Govt managing its schools in tents, and if there are
> buildings, there are no stools/benchs for them to sit. Shame, that we
> spend so much money for CWG
>
> Well, if you dont like voices,  just be.. happy as most of us are....
>
> love
> is
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Samvit <samvitr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think that she is an intellectual leftover. It is very surprising
> > that I find people of Sarai are raving about a woman who is
> > pardaoxically opposite to the leftist ideology.  While the stories of
> > her promiscuity are legendary I would not talk about them as it would
> > be interfering in her personal life. However some years back I saw her
> > in the skimpiest clothing going to the most capitalistic gym anyone
> > can think of.
> >
> > Those who rave about her writing need to read more writers and they
> > would realize what talent Arundati has got. Also, it is "en vogue" to
> > write against India. The great India rope trick sells like hot cake.
> > Write a book that says elephants run on Indian roads and it sells like
> > hot cake in the "developed world".
> > It is the intellectual leftovers like her and Gautam Navlakha who call
> > India "a corporate Hindu state". It is pretty sad that people on this
> > forum are "in awe of her".
> > -Samvit
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Inder Salim <indersalim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> 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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