--- On Tue, 23/3/10, Shoba Narayan <narayan.sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Shoba Narayan <narayan.sh...@gmail.com> > Subject: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 11:04 > I LOVED God of Small Things. It > was magically written and beautifully crafted. As a > piece of fiction, it is quite wonderful. > > Re: what Roy did post her Booker-fame is the object of much > of this discussion, it seems like. A lot of people > hate her polemics and I have no argument with that. > But if you are a writer who has only one book in you and if > that book so happens to be a global bestseller and a > critics' darling, you have two options of what to do with > your fame: you can do a Salinger and live like a hermit in > New Hampshire. Or you can turn activist. I would > choose the latter. I may not agree with all of Roy's > politics but at least she has decided to "use" her fame for > some cause (misguided or not-- and as it happens, I don't > find her causes misguided either). > > So, all you Arundhati Roy haters can go stuff > yourselves.... > How's that for a spirited response? :) > > Shoba How's that? As stuff goes, great stuff.
