On 14/02/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [ on 10:24 PM 2/14/2007 ]
>So... why is Arundhati Roy so evil?
I won't bite, but maybe just a nibble. She isn't evil, just annoying.
She's sort of an indirect family friend, so for us she's "A local gal
who made good" [1].
Despite that (or perhaps because of that) I still find her politics
annoying. People who represent an extreme of the political spectrum
are usually annoying, amusing or frightening.
Of the three, I suppose annoying is best -- it means she's effectively
communicating her ideas without being threatening.
-- b
[1] Which is better than "Local girl who was hopelessly corrupted by
her unconventional upbringing and now lives in sin in the big, bad
city." which was what she was known as before her book.
