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

[Aditya Raj Baul]

Look who's talking!

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:02 AM, SJabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>>
>> Samvit
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>> human;
>>> to forgive, infrequent.
>>>   - Franklin P.
>>> Adams
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