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

Sat Oct 30 11:02:32 IST 2010

There are those who wish to shut people up by threatening sedition and there
are others who wish to shut people up by their unrelenting rudeness and
childishness.  

On 30/10/10 10:46 AM, "Aditya Raj Baul" <adityarajbaul at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>
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