[Reader-list] Arundhati roy has become a joke: Guha

[anuradha mukherjee]

A rickshawalla told you Arundhati Roy is a "psuedo intellectual", in fact,
"the Rakhi Sawant of the pseudo-intellectuals!!!". Pardon my sense of
incredulity, but I find this coment rather hard to believe. Now, I also take
rickshaws and autorickshaws and have met many such people who have
incredible political opinions, but this one sounds a bit far fetched. I
don't have anything against right wing or left wing sympathies, and many
express those thoughts here, provided they don't insult the intelligence of
the readers here.
"Please allow people to voice their opinion. This is a forum for free
speech. It is so ironical, i see the old hats using abusive language
just to prove their point. A supposed inspiration from Arundhati."
You, if I remember correctly, started this entire string with a speculation
about someone's dress sense or supposed "morals" becasue you don't agree
with her point of view. You really need to reconsider your own line of
thought before you make these pleas of "Freedom of Speech."

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:40 PM, anupam chakravartty <c.anupam at gmail.com>wrote:

> Samvit,
>
> Your conclusions are very immediate. Who is stopping you from speaking? How
> did you know that godhra train was burnt by someone? How did you know that?
>
> Do you think your act of dragging anyone inside you little observatory? I
> am
> not attesting a certificate for anyone here Samvit. I passed a judgment on
> you previously because your remarks on Roy. Auto rickshaw wallahs steer
> people to their destinations. It is he who decides whether he should take
> me
> or not on his rickshaw. That is his right even if you or I call policemen
> to
> complain about his unwillingness to take us along with him. It is this
> decision that differs from person to person, whether X is a autorickshaw
> wallah or someone else. By using an individual's observation, you have
> consciously made a statement about all the autorickshaw wallahs.
>
> Regards anupam
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