[Reader-list] WHO IS AFRAID OF ARUNDHATI ROY?

Sat Oct 30 09:32:37 IST 2010

Samvit this is a big question you must ask ypourself....why has the indian
judiciary failed to "perform" in Kashmir unlike
 elsewhere in the examples u give? Or, you are saying the judiciary is also
run by the separatists?

On 30 October 2010 09:19, Samvit <samvitr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Parvaiz,
> The fact of the matter is that Indian media does not parrot the language of
> the fanatics (either hindu or muslim) unlike the "Greater Kashmirs" of the
> Valley where the word Pandit is an anathema. Try and pick up any magazine or
> newspaper from the Valley and all they do it glorify
> separatism/terrorism/extremism. It seems they have become the new towers of
> capitalistic Kashmir where money is the opium of the "classes". Selling a
> newspaper is as good as selling a toothbrush.
> Indian judiciary, over the years has done a good (if not excellent) job and
> convicted people in all kinds of crimes. An example being the case against
> the former Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah. In Kashmir not a single case
> against the Pandits has seen the light of the day. Bitta Karata is out in
> the open. Perhaps you should have written a piece about him. So ironical you
> talk about "surviving".
>
> Here, the opressor is trying to prove that he is the oppressed.
>
> People may write an epic of Gilgamish in Arundhati's honor but then it will
> be as slanderous as the courteisns who used to call Aurangzeb-  "Oh, king of
> kings, oh pinnacle of the mercy........."
> -Samvit
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Parvaiz Bukhari <parvaizbukhari at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Anxiously waiting for the fear to spread more so that more may survive
>> Indian politicians, media and the court historians of the day...
>>
>> On 30 October 2010 05:46, Pheeta Ram <pheeta.ram at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Some people on this list are afraid of 'Arundhati Roy - the joke' ( BTW,
>> a
>> > joke is not a joke) because they are afraid of laughing for obvious
>> > reasons:
>> >
>> > a) they are afraid because some other people simply love her and are not
>> > afraid to confess that
>> > b) they are afraid because she used to visit some upper-class gym in
>> skimpy
>> > clothing
>> > c) they are afraid because she married twice and is finally officially
>> > single
>> > d) they are afraid because she supports maoists and for them maoist is a
>> > term of abuse
>> > e) they are afraid because she supports the Aazadi of Kashmiri people
>> from
>> > the repressive Indian state
>> >  f) they are afraid because she writes bewitchingly beautiful prose for
>> > subversive, anti-national purposes
>> > g) they are afraid because they think she is publicity hungry
>> > h) they are afraid because she is some day certainly going to win the
>> Nobel
>> > Prize
>> > i) they are afraid because she is simply beautiful in those curly hair
>> and
>> > that mellow childlike voice; and those mesmerizingly wondrous eyes which
>> > are
>> > not afraid to sing for you the serenades of freedom
>> > j) they are afraid because they cannot NOTREAD what she writes in a 32
>> page
>> > long essay after walking with the comrades in the jungles of Dantewada
>> > k) they are afraid because the Indian state is now terribly scared of
>> > putting her in jail for that shall certainly fetch her the Nobel Prize
>> and
>> > win Kashmir the Aazadi
>> > l) they are afraid because she shared dais with SASG and made him
>> realize
>> > that Kashmiris are not alone in their struggle and also that Kashmiris
>> also
>> > need to know that there is a wider world surrounding them that is also
>> > struggling and that they need to acknowledge it and support it; and that
>> > the
>> > Kashmiris have the histories of India and Pakistan ( both collective and
>> > separate) before them to take strict lessons from, to fashion a
>> > nation-state
>> > that does justice to the sacrifices of the people who have fought, are
>> > fighting and shall continue fighting for Kashmir; and that all struggles
>> > against the tyrant are essentially connected
>> > m)they are afraid because she hops from one issue to another ( Narmada
>> > >>Maoists>>Kashmir>>which next?)
>> > n) they are afraid because she goes against their normative definitions
>> of
>> > beauty and gender
>> > o) they are afraid because 'even a rickshawala' is praising her saying
>> that
>> > she is a 'pseudo intellectual' (?) (Isn't it a pity that a rickshawala
>> of
>> > such a potential is not on the sarai list?).
>> > p) they are afraid because the Indian media -the stooges of Indian state
>> -
>> > don't know what to do with her (even supremely articulate ones from the
>> > media (like Karan Thapar) make an ass of themselves while interviewing
>> her)
>> > q) they are afraid because she spits on their faces and is not wee bit
>> > apologetic about it because she knows that they deserve it and that its
>> her
>> > duty to do that
>> > r) they are afraid because she is fast becoming a role model for the
>> > beautiful, well-connected upper-class convent educated women who are
>> > devouring her from cover to cover secretively like mills-and-boons even
>> in
>> > their bathrooms ( so that their businessmen fathers and social butterfly
>> > mothers don't catch them reading her) and dreaming about being her in
>> their
>> > fantasy worlds (one of them confessed to me) ( in this manner the
>> > phenomenon
>> > called Arundhati becomes a past-master in reverse engineering)
>> > s) they are afraid because she has made them realize that capitalism is
>> > like
>> > a deadly virus that shall one day surely eat itself away
>> > t) they are afraid because she thinks with a beautiful heart (hence a
>> > 'pseudo-intellectual')
>> > u) they are afraid because she converts "aesthetics of deferral" ( one
>> > scourge that afflicts most of the 'intellectuals' of todays world) into
>> a
>> > beautiful "aestheto-ethics of arrival", no mean feat i should say
>> > v) they are afraid because they unconsciously compete with her and
>> finding
>> > her a sure winner are afraid to take the challenge
>> > w) they are afraid because she challenges the very rationale of their
>> being
>> > and becoming
>> > x) they are afraid because she happens to be a woman (like them)
>> > y) they are afraid because the Indian state has done a beautiful job in
>> > bringing them up on a steady diet of 'nationalist' propaganda through
>> first
>> > beginning with NCERT textbooks in brainwashing saloons called 'Schools'
>> (
>> > the reason behind the popularity of Bollywood and Cricket)
>> > z) they are afraid because despite their manifest hate for her they have
>> > serious doubts that some where down there they love her too.
>> > ...
>> >
>> > BTW, who is afraid of what comes after Z? Jump the gun please.
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