Nice article and thanks for posting it George. It does seem more balanced in many respects as compared to most of the articles we have seen previously. Arundhati is a beautiful and eloquent writer.
Wish she would also break out into such eloquence over the plight of thousands of Hindus killed in Kashmir every day; Wish she would be an activist for the 0.8 million Kashmiri Pandits displaced and living in pitiable conditions for the last ten years; Wish she would reject publicly the Church sponsored terrorism in the North-East; Wish she would also work towards ending the caste wars in UP and Bihar; Wish she would denouce the Imam of Jama Masjid for giving a sort of call for civil war to disintegrate the nation; Wish she would give a call for the revamping of the madrassas in India which for some reason is okay for Pakistan to do but a controversial issue for India to address; Wish she would urge the legislators to remove the perpetuation of the British divide and rule policy by implementing an uniform civil code; Wish she would insist on the removal of special status for the state of Kashmir; Wish she would highlight how India is the only country in the world that provides a subsidy for Haj pilgrims - something which is considered unislamic by Saudi Arabia - somethings which Saudi Arabi has urged India to remove but which the Vajpayee govt. did not and instead raised the subsidy; Wish she would mention that one of the richest persons of the world and the richest Indian is a Muslim; Wish she would go deeper into the reasons why Adivasis and Dalits who are certainly not the VHP/Bajrang Dal supporters took part in large numbers in the Gujarat riots; Wish she would work towards removing the slur of harijan from the face of Indians; Wish she would focus on the development of the economy in order to eliminate polticians using communal vote bank politics; Wish she would berate the media for the half truths and the untruths that they print at crucial times e.g. Vajpayees's speech in Goa; Wish she would question the integrity and responsibility of the media in fanning the communal riot flames with biased reporting; Wish she had decried the press and people who blamed the Hindus for church bombings engineered by the Pakistani ISI; Wish she had examined the role of the Congress and others in the mass killings of the Sikhs after Indira Gandhi's assasination; Wish she had got more upset about the normal Muslim community and especally women being so backward; Wish she had shed a tear for the little child that was beaten to death because she was so immersed in play that she forgot to bow to the local Thakur; Wish she would get angry about the links SIMI had with Al Qaeeda and denouce them totally; Wish she had written such eloquence when Godhra happened and before the revenge riots followed; And wish so many things. Because if she and the rest of us reacted with the same outrage as we have reacted to the Gujarat riots I am completely sure that the situation would never have reached the deterioration point that it did. Unfortunately, we believe in only supporting some causes and some communities and some people and some issues. And while it is fashionable to deplore the Gujarat riots it is incomprehensible to find such depths of emotion for all the other atrocities in India. Cheers, Sunila >From: George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy - Part I >Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) > >Tim mentioned Arundhati Roy's name in a post yesterday. At the same time I >recd. this forward >from retired Prof. of Sociology Hari Sharma (Canada). I am forwarding this >article in three parts >without comment. George _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
