That is exactly what I hear about her.
Whether its Pakistan or some other burning issue, Roy wants to be in the think of things by giving an extremely skewed version of everything.
A Jane Fonda in her younger days?
--Ram
On 5/23/06, Rajib Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah... and most folks in India think she is mad. And
irrelevant.
--- Chan Mahanta < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *** Hats off to Arundhati. She GETS it! And I am
> glad she is using
> her celebrity to do the RIGHT thing, say the right
> things. If telling
> the truth is EXPLOSIVE, it certainly was.
>
>
> But it is not new. We knew it all the time. Some of
> us even said so,
> in exactly the same words at times:-), right here in
> Assam Net.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 9:11 AM +0100 5/23/06, Bartta Bistar wrote:
> >Arundhati voices her confusion, says India not
> democratic
> >
> >Lalit K Jha
> >
>
>< http://www.samachar.com/showurl.htm?rurl=http://www.indianexpress.com/story/4941.html?headline=India~not~democratic,~Bush~addressed~giraffes:~Arundhati~in~US >http://www.samachar.com/showurl.htm?rurl=http://www.indianexpress.com/story/4941.html?headline=India~not~democratic,~Bush~addressed~giraffes:~Arundhati~in~US
> >
> >NEW YORK, MAY 22 :In an explosive _expression_ of her
> views,
> >celebrated Indian writer Arundhati Roy told an
> audience here that
> >''India is not a democratic country''. ''The
> biggest PR myth of all
> >times is that India is a democracy. In reality, it
> is not,'' Roy,
> >the author of The God of Small Things told the
> 1,000-strong audience
> >at a book reading function she attended along with
> Eduardo Galeano,
> >one of Latin America's most distinguished writers.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >With her aggressive speech, Roy, the 1997 Booker
> winner, dominated
> >the event with Galeano playing second fiddle.
> >
> >She surprised the jampacked Town Hall as she
> stopped reading The God
> >of Small Things midway and said she wanted to speak
> on an issue,
> >which had been bothering her for quite some time.
> >
> >She said she was confused, as India was passing
> through a terrible time.
> >
> >Amidst frequent clapping, she blasted the Indian
> government and the
> >Bush administration. She did not spare even Prime
> Minister Manmohan
> >Singh. ''There is no real democracy in India.
> Several states in
> >India are on the verge of civil war,'' she said.
> >
> >Challenging the much-acclaimed views of columnist
> Thomson Friedman
> >praising India, a democracy of a billion
> population, for conducting
> >peaceful elections year after year, she said, ''He
> probably needs a
> >new tour of India... Does Thomas know that in
> Kashmir Valley alone,
> >some 80,000 people have been killed? In Iraq, there
> are 1,50,000
> >military personnel, whereas in Kashmir Valley there
> are some
> >7,00,000.''
> >
> >Referring to the visit of President George Bush to
> New Delhi in
> >March, she said, without elaborating: ''Bush visit
> was the most
> >humiliating experience of my life.'' As the venue
> for Bush's address
> >changed from Parliament to Vigyan Bhawan to Metro
> Park, he finally
> >ended up addressing India from a Zoo. ''I am not
> joking. This is
> >reality and the giraffes were disappointed,'' she
> said amidst
> >laughter from the audience.
> >
> >She did not agree with Prime Minister Manmohan
> Singh's views in his
> >lecture at the Oxford University praising Britain
> for all the good
> >things that India has, like its democracy,
> judiciary and
> >bureaucracy. India, she said, was a free market
> meant to steal from
> >the poor and subsidise the rich.
> >
> >Later, during her dialogue with Galeano, she urged
> the Americans to
> >oppose the occupation of Iraq by the US and allied
> forces. She said
> >Iraq and Afghanistan were not the only nations
> occupied by the US.
> >The others were controlled by checks and public
> diplomacy, she said.
> >The audience gave her a standing ovation.
> >
> >
> >
> >boo!!
> >
> >Iam quite disgusted by Roy's outburst. She might
> have earned a good
> >round of applause & cheer from her audience for the
> fibs but what
> >good does she thinks might evolve from it for India
> or for anyone
> >else as a matter of fact? It totally stinks.
> >
> >Name - Ram Sarangapani
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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