[Reader-list] Revolts & Rebellions : Arundathi Roy Interviewed by David Barsamian

[Lalit Ambardar]

The post was in response
to the interview of ADR whose admirers, who are in plenty on this forum, could
have done a little better in their anarchistic idol’s glory. 

This petty ‘beef festival’
story is just a sycophantic exercise. 

However, eating beef by
choice is one thing but  in view of the  aversion to ‘beef’ by an overwhelming
population not just limited to upper casts across the country, holding ‘beef festival’
is a sinister provocation that  could
come from a perverted mind only. Try holding ‘pork festival’ in Hyderabad ……. 

Rgds all

LA

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Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 20:51:49 +0530
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Revolts & Rebellions : Arundathi Roy Interviewed by David Barsamian
From: c.anupam at gmail.com
To: lalitambardar at hotmail.com; reader-list at sarai.net

"Continued diatribe against so called upper

class Hindus is a crap. It is a deliberate attempt to divide Hindus. How many

upper cast Hindus, today preside over how many political parties in India at

national or state levels? The ruling party head at the centre who also is the

de-facto ruler of the country is of foreign origin & not a born Hindu.  Today upper class Hindus are also competing

in general category for the jobs reserved for the lower casts. One can only

derive sadistic pleasures in differentiating poverty & deprivation on the

basis of religion & cast."

I am supposedly a Brahmin. Yesterday, I spoke to a few students from EFLU in Hyderabad. Every month Dalit students organise a beef festival in the mess. Since beef is not readily available in this country, with a regime which calls for a ban of the selling of beef, but have been also kidnapping the animals from farmers (hundreds of instances in Rajasthan and Gujarat), these students bought buffalo meat. What my friends told me is that they have this festival every month. 


A few Upper Caste north Indian students, mind you some Brahmins as well, attacked these Dalit students. There are documentary evidences that these students urinated on the food, threw it on the walls. Altogether the incident left a bad taste beyond all the discourses and other things. It was food. The upper caste students, from what I have been told said that how can you organise a beef festival in the hostel mess. 


Thanking you Lalit. I hope I am able enough, with my whatever caste identity to keep replying to such "crap" over and over again. 

Anupam 


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Lalit Ambardar <lalitambardar at hotmail.com> wrote:







The whole conversation sounds depressing.

‘I’, ‘me’ & ‘my’ are symptomatic of narcissism that overlays the hate India campaign.

Besides self flagellation ad nauseam by her, Arundhati Roy’s affirmative contribution in ameliorating the living

conditions of the very people she purportedly is concerned about is hardly

anything. She has a list of grievances but no concrete suggestions to remove

those.







It is because of her chronic hostility

towards the state that she readily embraces even the proponents of   ‘azadi-

bara- e- Islam’ (freedom for Islam) in Kashmir.

Her comrade-in arms- Geelani who like other Kashmiri Muslim separatists regards

Kashmir as the unfinished agenda of Jinah’s religion based two nation doctrine

& wants Kashmir’s inclusion with Pakistan has just declared Osama a ‘martyr’

calling for mass prayers today in Kashmir. ADR does not mind this religious

blackmail of gullible masses. Her rhetoric on Kashmir might be a moral-booster

for Kashmiri Muslim separatists & their indoctrinated foot soldiers but it

can not erase Kashmir’s civilisational links with rest of India. It doesn’t bother her

conscience that those Kashmiri jihadists who self admittedly got trained in

Pakistan & ferried weapons from there & launched anti India jihad in

1989-90 & who deserve to be tried for crimes against humanity are roaming

free, practicing ‘politics’. Even the brutal ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindu

Pandits at the hands of Kashmiri pan- Islamists in the land of their origin

does not cause her any indignation.







Continued diatribe against so called upper

class Hindus is a crap. It is a deliberate attempt to divide Hindus. How many

upper cast Hindus, today preside over how many political parties in India at

national or state levels? The ruling party head at the centre who also is the

de-facto ruler of the country is of foreign origin & not a born Hindu.  Today upper class Hindus are also competing

in general category for the jobs reserved for the lower casts. One can only

derive sadistic pleasures in differentiating poverty & deprivation on the

basis of religion & cast.



Talking about exploitation of tribals, it

was way back in seventies that a journalist ‘bought’ a tribal girl from

somewhere in central India

to prove a point. Continued apathy towards tribals deserves utmost attention.

But is ‘violence’ the answer? Maoists’ guns have brought the Maoists &

their overt sympathisers in the limelight but development continues to elude.

Induced ‘Christianisation’ over the decades has only divided the families &

communities.



 As

if all that is evil exists in India

& in India

only. Yes, we are no where close to claiming a system that ensures a fair

degree of socio-economic justice. Crony capitalism is a serious threat. But

there is a growing awareness of our shortcomings & positive activism is on

rise. In spite of apparent pitfalls, it can not be denied that democracy is

evolving in India.

Civil checks & balances are necessary to counter the propensity to misuse

democracy. If there was 2G scam, the media exposed it & the Govt. of the

day is nailed. Civil society is pursuing introduction of severe laws against

corruption. People are demanding return of Indian wealth illegally parked

outside. Sustainability is the topic of discussion today. Peaceful awareness

& opinion mobilisation campaigns would go a long way in nation building

than antagonistic activism.



 Intellectual

manipulations do not bring about genuine revolutions & revolution need not

be synonymous with violence or anti India hate campaign.





Rgds all…LA



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