Arundhati speaks and you know that each thought she expresses, and that each word shes uses to form a sentence, is deeply reflected and measured. She un-complicates the world a little. That alone is a magic and service we can not easily repay.
Thanks for your positive comment. The interview was facilitated by the interviewer's astuteness, understated passion, intelligence, and willingness and ability to provide breathing room in which Ms. Roy could comfortably expound. Love Ms. Roy for her authenticity and gutsiness in the face of a reactionary and entrenched opposition. She's right to refer to them as fascist.
"It is a very complicated river in which i swim" " It is a millitant laugh which I laugh, and you are not taking it away from me" Wow... Only ARUNDHATI can be so original and creative with words. All her interviews are like that. Originality , creativity and truthfulness ... Naturally and effortlessly coming out of her ... Like fragrance coming out of a exotic flower... And the interviewer lady is really listening with genuine respect too. Obviously she is also a great admirer. Praiseworthy....!!!
It's wonderful to listen to Arundhati. She does lot of experiments within connecting the outer world with the inner world, ie; self. I love the way she expresses her thoughts so calmly and serenely. Congratulations Arundhati for the award, you definitely deserve. 🌸🙏
Arundatti is an American Christian paid puppet I would not believe a word she says. Firstly There is no mention of caste system anywhere in the vedas. The word caste comes from portuguese and spanish language, the word was first used in 1569. In 1628 many foriegn came to India with intention to colonize India, including British, Dutch, Portuguese, sedish, french, danish. The caste was used by the portuguese to divide Indians, the British also learned from the portuguese and used the caste (the same word from portuguese language as it is to divide Indians, if any one who has read vedas or manusmriti and can find me this word caste from vedas of hindu scriptures I challenge him or her to prove me wrong. Please do not let anyone tell you or convince you that caste is from hindu religion because it is not. I have no interest in the politics of west, congress, leftists and hindu haters, but I dont want you to become a victim of fake propaganda which was set into motion by those with ulterior motives. The British wanted to divide hindus and with intention to confuse and covert the hindus into christianity and so apx in the 17th century the British hired germans like max muller and thoman babson maculay to study sanskrit and hindu culture and make false translations of the vedas which are the basis of all the fake narratives of the Sanatan vedas which are still used by the christians/western institutions and certain hindu haters/ leftists/ communists in India and west as evidence. These fake narartives still used in the west to demonize hindus culture and religion. thoman babson maculay advised the uk parliament that if you want to rule India you must first destry its education system and its culture, and this is exactly what the British did by dividing Indians based on western narrative of caste system and by removing sanskrit from the education system. Did you know that India was the richest nation in the world until islamic invasions came to India then followed by British imperial rule. The british completely crippled India and its industries and the Gurukuls in a bid to destroy Bharat and make them dependent on the west. But I ask you those who call yourself a Hindu, do you even know that there is no such word such as hinduism in the bhagwad gita or vedas. Then why does the Hindu calls him self Hindu if there is no such word in our bhgawad gita or vedas this is due to systematic erosion of sanatan dharma by the islamic and christian invaders. The immpact of Muslim rule in India was so profound that only those hindus who paid Jizya tax (tax that is imposed by Muslim ruler to non Muslims till they agree to convert into Islam) as per Islam survived atrocities during Muslim rule. Rest all are killed or converted on swords. The fear among hindus was so much that during the 800 years of Islamic rule in India and the persecution of Hindus was similar to how ISIS treated yazidi girls in Iraq today in the 20th century, hence mothers stopped teaching their children sanatan dharma in fear that they will be kidnapped or targetted which then lead to dilussions and super stitions and misunderstanding about our sanatan dharma. Those who wanted to avoid the persecution had to convert to Islam or those who wanted better status or positions in the Islamic courtships had to convert to Islam. It was these Islamic invaders who came to Bharat who called us Hindus or kafirs, and this is why eventually we regonized ourselves by the name given to us by these very invaders. Hence the would hindu comes from persian and arabs not from our own culture. When the British came they finally hit the nail on the sanatan dharma. They sucked the entire wealth of Indians by high taxes which often led to starvation of farmers. They used the same practices as used by Islamic invaders but in more sophiticated ways. Until the British arrived in India there was no caste word used in Bharat. There is no such word as Caste (or Jati) in the bhagwad gita and vedas, infact it is unfortunate that 1000+ years foriegn rule in India has eroded the true vedic dharma. The level of corruption of our dharmic relgion is so much by the enemy that we dont even know the truth about our own origins and we dont even know that there is no such word such as hindu in our dharma. So why do we call ourselves as Hindu and what is the source of this word Hindu. And what is truth behind the word caste and caste system. Would you like to know the truth or you just like to continue believe in the lies taught to you till date. Unless we understand these basic truths there you will not understand the roots of this divide and rule conspiracy of our enemies who peddled lies for 300 years. It is true that those associated with the British education system did adopt the caste system but post the arrival of the British. The British on purpose removed sanskrit from the education system upon the advise of their advisers similar like Thomas babson Maculay and introduced Persian instead. And goverment jobs would only be given to those who knew English and persian, so this is how the British tried to kill sanskrit and after a while the majority population stopped going to gurukuls as this was not giving them jobs. So eventually slowly over a century nobody could read the vedas anymore then the british could tell you any lies you would believe them and not challenge their books as you could never verify their lies as you stopped learning sanskrit. In contrast they translated all our vedic books and the west used the knowledge from vedic books to inspire/ motivate western inventions and discoveries, just like it inspired the creator of atom bomb, Robert Oppenheimer. Similarly there are many other discoveries in the west stolen or inpired from the vedas. During the vedic days the Indian population was by in largely peasants and farmers so when enemies came to scout bharat before invasions, what they normally did is sent spiritual saints and preachers of Islam and christianity origin to confuse those who had not read the vedas or did not study the sanatan dharma closely. They would not at first directly convert them to Islam or chrsitianity they would first weaken their knowledge of hinduism, then once they are confused it was easier to convert such individuals who are confused and not well read. The British and portuguese merely had to mistranslate the vedas to muddy the water but the same christians will not tell you that how much hatred is mentioned in bible verses. When you speak about the hatred in bible they will deny even these verses. So the these christians who mistranslated the vedas were intolerant people whose primary objective was to create a platform to disgust the hindus so that it is easy to convert them to christianity. The shudra is someone who is low wisdown, a brahmin is someone who has spent years to learn the vedas and achived high level of wistom, a shatriya is some who has trained for years to achieve certain level of martial expertise, mean while a vashya is someone who is trained thru experience in the art of business. This is similar to what the western education is doing these days they impart education to you and once you get bachelors or masters degree you can get better jobs elevating your status in society. Once I repeat there is no mention of caste in the vedas this is a foriegn word and there is no mention of the word hind this too is a foriegn word, there is no mention of jati in our sanatan scriptures like bhagwad gita and vedas, all these are foriegn words. What is mentioned in the vedas is Verna and this is primarily to do with occupation based on the training and wisdom. Many people will misguide you that caste is by birth and you cannot change this, once again this is lies and fake narrative of those who want to musguide your faith in sanatan dharma. There are only 4 verna's and they are bhahmin, kshartriya, shudra and vashiya. It is not correct that we are born as brahmin or kshatriya, we are all born as shudras then we elevate our status by education and training just like the western education does using college education or politechique practical training. Anyone born to shudra can become a brahmin by study of the vedas and gaining wisdom, just like anyone can get master and phd degree and become a CEO or become a subject matter expert in the western sense. So you see verna was never caste and everyone is born a shudra till he becomes an expert by skill or knowledge. There are several examples of this in history that a persons born to a shudra or lower caste has been called a brahmin or sadguru when he wrote Ramayan or expressed expertise on certain subjects. Brahmin or Sadguru is a teacher who helps your fine tune your skills in the field of warfare, spritualism, vedic knowledge, astromnomy and similar. So a brahimin is merely your learned guide not your master as depicted in the western/christian translations. Infact in our vedic ashrams or gurukuls there was no differences between child of poor or child of king, all of them were sent in the ashram of sages to live after the age of apx 12 years. Here the sons of kings even lived together as fellow students sharing the same rooms of ashram or gurukul as the poor. Just like in western style boarding schools and universities.
I wonder what a city designed by Arundhati Roy would look like? There's a sense of playfulness/humour when she's speaking, despite the issues upon which she touches being so serious. Fascinating interview, diolch yn fawr!
Every word spoken by Arundhati roy...feels like a magic ..and a world full of beautiful and divine presence...equal appreciation and praise to the interviewer...to having elicited such beautiful answers from the author..most inspiring and beautiful interview...cant move a serious listening person to tears...every word reflects from her pain inside of her...from all these years of constant strive and determination
When she mentioned Hazrat Sarmad Shrine in the JAMA Masjid, and later telling the beauty of that idea, people have the liberty to imagine own story, this point of interview reminded me the song "The night we met, by Lord Huron" we all like that song so much because we as a audience have the room to imagine our own story along that song. Aahhhh beautiful ♥️
She is not a strong, smart and brave woman as she did nothing except giving Anti-India interviews (She is Anti-India & not just Anti-Modi as Manmohan Singh's government also arrested her for sedition once) Queen Manikarnika is an actual strong, smart and brave woman
She is truly a gem of a person and an author. Her humbleness is admirable besides so many other qualities. Love her simple ways of explaining things. Thank you for this interview.
A writer is someone who is very sensitive to pain, shorrows, happiness no matter whose, so i totally agree with Roy when she says the situation of india is anything but peaceful for writer to write because how can they, when they see and hear all the mishaps going around in name of religion. The threat to one's right to expression has never been this severe. You might be jailed for a slight comment which the government thinks is threatening for them. It's dark days we live in, but we shall live and fight and speak till we are free
It's such a beauty to see two minds reflect and ponder. When there is silence from the storming chaos of the world, minds and their energies speak very loudly. This interview essayed such a feeling for me. Thank you.
This was beautiful. This is beautiful. Also, the current change of scenario in India (in 2024) is the result of not losing hope, and resistance. Certainly.
She and Ashis Nandy embody an intellectuality that has sadly gone completely missing in today's India ! They are the voices we need to come out of our great nation.
wow beautiful video, love Arundhati Roy, specially her message in teh end, that to find love and hope in most hopeless situation and she goes on,. love her being so true and honest ,creative genius
Travelled many a time through Aymanam, Arundathi Roy and the other person is Dr P. R Kumar, after a heavy drinking bout, I travelled with Dr Kumar to his resort at Aymanam at midnight, with a packet of karimeen, and he said a lot of story, sorry to say Dr Kumar passed away another star other than Arundathi Roy, Dr Kumar will remain unforgoten in the years to come.
Please read her books both 'God of Small Things ' 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ' & her essays.. She is special human being, much more than writer..Puts to shame Journalists of the MSM of USA UK EU Nations India, Pakistan,Apartheid State of Exclusive Chosen Jews,
She has proved that pen is mightier than the sword.she expresses her views,right or wrong,cahdidly,with utmost spontaneity. Then it becomes a revolution of ideas.
yes she writes in india about india but gives and explains her points in a foreign country perhaps media in india do not have the deep sense of thought to understand her opinions
I don't know if she's aware of sociology theories. But her work comes close to pragmatism or symbolic interactionism. She studied the architecture where I did mine. Shrine she talked about in ministry of utmost happiness is situated very close to the arch school
A question to Ms.Arundhathi Roy. Why, you always speak about Muslims being slaughtered or their identity being removed ? Why can't you speak about Brahmins who were killed, slaughtered by Muslims, for example, Kashmiri Pandits ?
Just winning a prize does not make one devine. Use the perception in novels. But.fill statements with facts. Awards does not change the world actions will
Folks it is foolish to say an author is capable of conducting social experiments. The days of Charles. Dickens are over. Take it from me. I studied in the west in the best universities. Live in the west. Their are some vested academia who have Hindu phobia. They don't have an iota of knowledge about sanathana dharma upanishads let alone veda. They don't even know how Hindus died in the hands of invading Muslim raiders and occupying Muslim Rulers. Just read what Aurangazeb and Tippu did to peaceful Hindus. There are also some so called socialist academic elite namby pamby professors authors in whose eyes India is is still in the Era of 1930s. The problem is a so called 3rd world country India now becoming a force to recon with is a poison chalice to many in the west. Modijee has raised the stature of Indians in the eyes of the world 40 years ago Indians with all humility presented their pass port at ports or to authorities. Today I have sent in Bulgaria Romania Poland Italy France Italy Portugal Indians presenting the passport With pride. It is not the revival of Hinduism.is the cause of Jealousy. It is the way India is about to become world number 2 shortly. What so called politicians since 1947 could not do . Modijee and company has done in 15 years. Take pride in your civilization at least 24k years old as proven by the carbon.dating of Kalpha vigraha which was given to CIA IN 1952 by a Buddhist monk. If you don't take pride now as Indians then it is a pity you are a indian
The problem here mate Frog in the well has no idea about the world. . So no point in arguing with frog in the well. . Degrees are fake may be in your part of world. In West, you study for it. . Comprende amino. Chou
@@madhukarpandey8090 और बताओ गोबर खा रहे हो न ठीक से? और मूत्र कम पड़े तो मैं भिजवा दूं पी लेना और बचे तो नहा लेना तुम्हारी पुरी शुद्धि हो जाएगी तन की भी और मन की भी।
@@Martty_4 You talk about Islamophobia. In southern state Kerala, Christian and Hindu girls are trapped in love jihad and some ended up in Syria. PFI activisits chopped off hands of a Christian professor in Kerala. For me as a Christian, Muslims also are not innocent. I thank God, India is not an islamic country. Then you cannot even talk of any dissent. Look at Pakistan and Iran!
@@thomasthomasphilp4393 I'm talking about how the prime minister is instigating violence in India and religion segregation. This only happens under BJP
Please do not take Arundthati Roy as a messenger of truth. She is a writer and she knows well the audience she is writing for. To make her work exciting, she gives it the required twists and turns and the extra spice therein needed. In management it is called " product differentiation".Without that her work will fall flat. All writers and producers of works in the print and / or electronic choose this strategy, especially when they are dealing with the English speaking audience. The onus is on them to share and show the highly liberal "finesse"in themselves, and thereby pontificate to the "non- English others" that the latter is wrong or is backward. A.Roy does this impeccably. Our best wishes to her. But ask anyone, the ills of the liberal English speaking society, either in its social cohesiveness or political manuverings are as worst as it can be. You got to look at Indian socity from the lens of India, it's culture,traditions and its own problems than to look at it from the mighty English lens.
You're accused of hating India and being anti India for all the right reasons. Despite being an educated & intellectual woman who has seen the ups & downs of life, you too have your own bias. But you refuse to accept yourself with your flaws & bias and present to the world only your positive qualities. Which is a very typical human behaviour. Remember, we all have biases. Those biases are shaped by an individual's life experiences. Don't hate India just because you were born in a minority group here. Despite being a minority, this country gave you a lot. I too have been a minority and fought injustice my whole life. But I'm very grateful to my country.
Ms. Roy should not be a negative critique of Mahatma Gandhi. This is something British cruel rulers wanted. Than doing it by themself, against Gandhi, they usually find their own people to do it as their tactic. They buy such people for some fee (contract) I do not want to label Ms. Roy is someone who purposely chose that line. She fell victim like many thousand in this tactic.
The role of scholars is to critically reflect on every aspect of society including critiquing people society has elevated to the level of gods. Now, in this case, Roy critique Ghandi on the basis of things he said against the marginalized people. His contribution to the strengthening of caste system. Unless you are a beneficiary of caste system, you would disagree with Roy.
You can't decide what's going on somewhere by living outside of India.. Arundhati Roy is great author but she cannot be right in everything she's saying about India.
Exactly! Her facts on the citizenship amendment rule is lopsided and she is doling out wrong information. India is a proud Nation built on integrity and wisdom let her not use her creativity to mix fact and fiction .
Just because a person is living outside india doesn't mean she cannot be aware of the happenings in her own country and make comments about it. You m0di people can't take it because she is right. This is what happens in a fascist govt. Silence those who speak right. This is why people leave your country
I have a tremendous respect for you but Madam, what are you talking about? Your views about current India...you are using very harsh words, madam! What picture are you painting about your own country? For what?
As Muslims, we owe this Hindu lady a lot. She feels our pain and humiliation. I love Hindus just because I know there are so many Hindu people like her. Not everyone is a bhakht and hates us just because someone is saying to hate us.
No reasonable man supports likes of Arundhati Roy,Medha Patekar,Tripti Desai etc. us included.These r West promoted non entities.So even if one dislikes NDA govt he dislikes such people equally.Seems govt.did no unjust thing re.UAPA.
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This is an example of preaching without practice. When someone isn't staying in country and come always for some controversy. Clear sign of liberal seculars who are at the core want to encash someone’s pain and grief to sell by selling their own soul. India’s rich diversity and culture had tolerated her. If she would be somewhere else and using nonsense on name of freedom of expression, she would have to pay very hefty price. Time has changed. Many educated ellites are coming out to show her where she stands and how many lies and propaganda she is supporting.
@@riadsinha3312 1)She supported Terrorists who killed thousands of Kashmiri Pandits. There is Photo Of her with that terrorist too ! 2) She brain washes College youth into believing a PM who doesn't agree with her thoughts is a dictator ! 3)She teaches Her students Kashmir is not an Integral part of India! Is this logic enough for u ????
Ha ha ha ha ha!! What's the definition of terrorist? State Patronized terrorism is not terrorism? She stands for the oppressed and deprived people who're victims of US., EU, and IsraIi state terrorism. Obviously Modi sponsored terrorism in India. Sorry to say that your reply is full of ignorance. Read more, don't be motivated and controlled by the LIES OF THE WESTERN CORPORATE MEDIA.
