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

TaraPrakash taraprakash at gmail.com
Sat Oct 30 22:22:22 IST 2010 

How many do you have to offer? How about using some to scratch the part of 
your body that starts itching when you hear Sonia's saner questions, you 
villain of "Father Son and Holy War?" If we go in to the nuances of your 
unsolicited offers it is worse suggestion than anyone made on Ms. Roy. And 
yet Gods haven't said a word.

Isn't it true now that you get admonished only if you are espousing a 
different view, if you are throwing up the same stuff as entrenched you can 
get away with murder on this list?

Please Sonia don't give up because of these rude nationalists and 
masculinist delinquents. We need a true perspective, not polluted by those 
who make money for speaking in favor of one of the 2 sides.

You just asked a question and these men's backsides went on fire. Amazing.

Sorry, but I can't stand those who can't stand the critique.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aditya Raj Baul" <adityarajbaul at gmail.com>
To: "reader-list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 1:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] WHO IS AFRAID OF ARUNDHATI ROY?


> 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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>>> Rawal
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>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>> To err is human;
>>> to forgive, infrequent.
>>> - Franklin P.
>>> Adams
>>>
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