Yes its Arundhati Roy again. Anyway, chill a bit and read, "Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People' "(excerpt)These are not questions that are coming from art galleries -- they are coming from the millions of people who have put their lives on the line to ask this question. The answers are the key to what is going to become of this planet, this civilisation, the human race. http://news.rediff.com/special/2010/jun/02/arundhati-roy-on-war-of-people.htm
No need to get irritated at her if you were really reading. In case the reading was off, here: (Significant excerpt) "I am not here to defend the killing of innocent people by anybody, not by the Communist Party of India-Marxist, the Maoists or the government. That is not my brief. When the 76 CRPF personnel were killed, there was this tremendous pressure on me, saying you went inside, you romanticised violence, now come and condemn this violence. BUt I ask what were the CRPF people - she lists an array of heavy arms -- doing there? It is not so simple, it is a very thorny, knotty issue. It is not possible for me to go there and see these people with their loin clothes, bows and arrows, and you want to snatch it from them, and you want me on your side, it cant be done, she says This is the war between the poorest people of the world, against the biggest democracy in the world. And they are winning. They have stopped the corporates on their tracks. They are asking a serious question. This is questioning the meaning of democracy, of civilisation itself. " ++++++++++++ Of course I am not in India. I am saying it from outside the country; but that should not matter (in my case). venantius j pinto
