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

[Aditya Raj Baul]

awwww poor girl you never understand questions. would you like another candy?

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:41 AM, SJabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Parvaiz,
> I don't understand your big question. Do you not make a distinction between
> the Kashmiri judiciary and the Indian judiciary, and between the IPC and the
> RPC?  Please clarify.
> Sincerely,
> Sonia
>
>
>
> On 30/10/10 9:32 AM, "Parvaiz Bukhari" <parvaizbukhari at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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