Arundhati Roy in conversation with Anthony Arnove. This event is part of the Lannan Foundation's In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom series. You can find more videos at podcast.lannan.org
I seriously feel the very depth of the concerns that she had about my country is truth by far & large. As a Student, an Engineer, a Teacher & more importantly a Citizen of India my country is at Stake with Politicians & Thiefs underneath sheep's skin destroying Democracy.
Wow! It's not ignorance. You perhaps meant to say that we know more than what we should know about Leftists, the likes of Arundati Roy. You nexus with breaking India forces is getting exposed.
Arundhuti Roy is expressing and replied every question asked by Anthony Arnave it is a part of the Lannan Freedom in Parsuit of Cultural Freedom series All these are valuable talked and need must for all and ever valuable everything
Indian society is tolerant. Thats why her voice is not yet silenced. Taslim Nasreen, the writer is not able to stay in India or Bangladesh due to islamic radicals.
you want people to be thankful that they are not getting killed, a progressive society accepts new ideas it does not threaten it's writers to silence their voice, no wonder Hindi is disappearing because propaganda machine can't tolerate good writers. Indian society is not tolerant because it's quiet, it's quiet because it knows how to silence people.
@@alankarjoey258 then how she is still alive despite so much making anti national comments. It's the tolerance of Indian society that she is still alive. In other countries she would have killed by the mob or by the agency.
Tony Thomas Many Indians in the last 15-20 years hav paid with their lives because of their religion,caste,gender,.Similarly 10s of 1,000s killed in Pakistan. (Malala)Fanaticism is on the rise.
Why these people are not putting efforts in changing things rather than being vocal and writing books. Can any of his admirer list her 10 achievement done in interest of the people she is talking about.
Shashank Sawant "the ink of the Scholar is worth more than blood of the Martyr".By her writing she is opening the eyes & minds of Indians Pakistanis & the whole world to the issues of poverty illiteracy homelessness & the madness of Wars,bloated Generals.Wars are profitable business. God bless America m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=212575440520925&id=100053054121817
Yes... now its all under scanning machine...plz.. with full respect.. from Indian peoples...amongst one... we alwys hav big salute throughout your life anymore!! 🙏
Honest she may sound but a lot of pessimism in her views about the country and culture that made her. An activist as we learn of her from the media and an award winning fiction writer and an essayist she may be but all that wrested out of casting aspersions on every 'other' in her country. Sympathetic she may sound about the plight of one set of Kashmiris but at the expense and eliminating from her discourse of the other set of Kashmiris driven out of their homes and lands that they had been in for thousands of years by faith based fanatics claiming as she terms it and as the militants do, 'Azadi' ignoring the fact that they already have it like the rest of the country. I suspect her intentions. And I not only suspect but conclude that it is for her all about self aggrandisement.
i studied architecture college where she studied too. most of the facilities aren't proud of her or disown her .as she did too. She never calls her college fondly or as alma matter. It is always referd by her as "an architecture college in delhi."funny love and hate relationship as if she loves not owning her college too. She isn't part of the almuni association too.
Thanks Arundhati for your tireless work to make RSS a great organisation.....More you bluff about RSS & Hindus.. People research more and attract towards it more and more. Take care of yourself you are looking weak dear...... We need more of you for both India, Hindus & RSS to Grow......
Blaming the government for every little misfortunes happening in the country won't make you a better intellectual person. I think we should all lead and speak out positively to influence the country towards progress rather than painting it in a colour of darkness. I find her having very negative views about the country, problems like India has exist in every part of the world. I think she needs to brush up her old mind and see the nation in a new light and try saying more positive things. 'You see the world as you are.'
Tanks in Kashmir !!! Stones at tanks!!! Refugee camps !!!! Indian army doesn't use anything above light machine guns in Kash. Refugee camps largest in India is in Jammu where Hindu pandits r living..Gals throwing stones in Kashmir was rare and happened once when a school boy was beaten.. But what will u do when militants live among u
And I would like to request the foreign media not to believe what a single/confused woman having such one sided view has to say about a country, which I doubt she even loves or is proud of. 😒
Violence? Muslim persecution? What in the name is she actually talking about? India has never been more peaceful, and less violent in its modern history than ever before. And it's steadily progressing towards a more lawful, and peaceful society. I would love to see some data, and not some anecdotal play on emotions. Otherwise whatever she's projecting is nothing more than a clever ploy to continue whatever narrative she's invested so much time and effort into. Communal tensions have always been a part of modern India. Gandhi was always very delicate about this. This is the entire reason why there's a Pakistan in the first place, because there's communal tensions. But to act as if Hindus are somehow at the basis of this violence is astounding, or that somehow the recent politics have uniquely risen communal tensions. Throughout modern India you have countless instances of much more widespread, and violent communal movements. You have 200,000 Kashmiri Pandits - yes the very Kashmir she's somehow talking about as the victims - driven out of their home with the threat of violence, and rape in modern India. You have communists butchering people in the North-East. In the 80's you have Sikhs separatists attempting to create a Khalistan which again displaced countless people in Punjab. This essentially culminated into the assassination of PM Gandhi, and which, I would say, spiraled into a vengeful bloodlust by the very Congress party that has ruled the country for past years. Not to mention the police state enacted by Indira Gandhi which she used to literally destroy political opponents by jailing them. ou have christian terrorist organizations in the North-East. And currently in Kerala you have political violence perhaps like no where else in the country where political opponents are killed often. Then you have 2002 which were fueled by Muslims burning Hindu pilgrims in a train, and spiraled into communal violence. Point is regardless of politics the communal tension has always been there. I'm not saying that there aren't Hindus in the fray of violence, but that simply the Hindu violence she seems to projecting isn't as monolithic as she implies. Not only that the current government is just as civilized as the previous government. They have done nothing extraordinary in their method of governing. Furthermore even with Hindus being the majority most of the crimes, and violence, motivated by communal tensions are in fact not from Hindus. Proportionally it's not even close. India is moving towards a more peaceful future, with a calmer society. There's no statistic or data out there that can prove the fact that India is becoming more violent, because that simply isn't true. Least prove that Hindu violence is on the rise.
As an Indian, I dont think India is going in a right direction. I like Modiji being a powerful leader and puts India as a great nation on international platform. Indians are getting divided. You cannot force people not to eat some meat. Whats then the difference between muslim extremists and them? Modi is going in a direction which Hitler did. Hitler lifted a bankrupt Germany and brought Jobs to his people. At the expense of millions of Jews! When BJP gets majority in both houses, who knows how they will change the constitution. When you use religion for dividing people in a country, you can see where they ended up in countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh?
From the other talks given by Ms. Roy it became clear to me that the essential problem in India is that the country is dominated politically and economically by the upper caste, North Indian Hindu. She is in favor of greater political decentralisation and the upliftment of the marginalised communities
No one is talking about a holocaust or destruction. Stop being dramatic. Upliftment of marginalised communities simply means ensuring their rights are protected and that they are given equal opportunities, that the system isn't rigged against them. Black people were a marginalised community in America, but through political activism they are closer to getting their fair share of the pie. The same work must be carried out for the marginalised communities of India, especially Muslims, Dalits and Sudras. The BJP-RSS nexus is the greatest political obstacle to the upliftment of minorities.
Who is a majority in India? No one is a majority in India. There are only minorities in India. Considering the Hindus as a monolithic group is a mistake, but more than that considering the different Castes, Varnas, Gotras, Tribes, and other affiliations you're left with a deeply refulgent society that does not have the possibility of being monolithic. Only 26% make the so called forward castes, which even among themselves are not monolithic, and can be further fractured. Trying to paint BJP-RSS nexus as some conspiracy of the top is literally the exact opposite of the reality of the situation. RSS has a very strong trend towards attracting OBCs, and tribals, in fact it's the OBCs that dominate RSS and BJP. BJP has the largest number of OBCs in its party. What do you think happened in UP? BJP gave far more seats to OBCs than the other party gave to the Yadavs. What caste do you think Modi is? He's not of the so called "forward castes". However Miss Arundhati Roy is. The Hindutva movement you see today is incredibly inclusive to those at the bottom rungs of Indian society in both sentiment, and culture the movement speaks to the underprivileged in Indian at a incredibly deep level. In comparison to the so Secular Liberals of India which is profoundly delinked to the bottom rungs of society, and speaks a language and preaches ideas that are very much foreign to these people, and instead is the game of the upper class. In India today being an English speaking Liberal is being Upper Class. So your narrative is profoundly incorrect.
