Re: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People'

2010-06-07 Thread floriano
www.goasu-raj.org - Original Message - From: Venantius J Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 11:06 PM Subject: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People' Hi Floriano, Good to hear you--feeling vindicated

Re: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People'

2010-06-06 Thread floriano
, June 06, 2010 2:46 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People' Also anyone, try pitting arguments against, EN Rammohan, former Director General of the BSF, has fought insurgencies in Kashmir and the Northeast. Recently, Home Minister P Chidambaram picked him to probe

[Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People'

2010-06-06 Thread Venantius J Pinto
floriano.l...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People' This is what I wrote a few days ago. And my position on India not fighting the Naxals with the Armed Forces is vindicated Cheers floriano ** Dr. Nandkumar Kamat must know that if Armed forces step in to take

Re: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People'

2010-06-05 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Simple logic. No offence. Speaking for myself., I learnt may of these forms, late in life and am happy for that. vjp From http://www.tehelka.com/story_main43.asp?filename=Ws270210Civilsociety.asp A tangent yes, but a worthy arc. ‘HUMANITY, THOU ART A NAXAL SYMPATHISER’ *The Supreme Court’s

Re: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People'

2010-06-05 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Also anyone, try pitting arguments against, EN Rammohan, former Director General of the BSF, has fought insurgencies in Kashmir and the Northeast. Recently, Home Minister P Chidambaram picked him to probe the Dantewada massacre of CRPF jawans by Naxals. Yet, crucially, in a forthright interview

[Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People'

2010-06-03 Thread Carvalho
Dear Ven'u, Thank you for sending in that link. It made for interesting reading. When God of Small things came out several years ago, I celebrated Roy. I think I was at the tail-end of my twenties then and we Indians needed a literary hero like Roy to fall in love with and to claim as our

[Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People

2010-06-03 Thread Bernado Colaco
Strangely the paper does not contain the statement of Roy's condemnation of the invasion of Goa and other places by the current regime. BC

Re: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People'

2010-06-03 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Dear Selma, I rarely post such pieces now, and do not intend to keep it up; but, I was quite certain it would be an interesting read. Youth in an interesting time, during which we are all are enamoured with ideas, visions, our sexualities and what we are able to understand of such motions within

[Goanet] Arundhati Roy talks on 'War of People'

2010-06-02 Thread Venantius J Pinto
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