The thugs were going into court, beating up everyone. People were being lynched, beaten up. I felt highly ashamed of myself. I came here because I had this thing that I had been protecting. I was working on the book, and so close to finishing. So I left. I was here in absolute despair and fear and shame. Roy checked into a London hotel. She references them with an eye-rolling air of exasperation. Given that prime minister Modi might see himself in one of the characters, a lawsuit must be unlikely to come as any great surprise.
Maybe they will leave it. What does she mean? But imagine if I was a poor person: how would you do it? How do you go to this town, that town, appear here? You would stop writing. In her daily life, she never meets anyone who regards her as unpatriotic. Absolutely not. Without a doubt. I function within a huge river and stream and a rising, rushing current of solidarity. That said, men have been sent to attack her home. For me, everybody — the cab drivers, the cigarette sellers, the stray dogs — those are my security.
Roy had been completely unprepared for the attention the success of her first novel would bring. I did reach a point where I thought, am I going to really regret having written this book? Hold this thought for a moment. His response to another question by TOI has been reproduced verbatim in this post to illustrate how other mobs in India have been operating for years.
How did you view the Rajiv Gandhi Institute, which you once headed, holding this conference on the issue of intolerance? I was there for eight years and during that period, we consciously distanced ourselves from the. In , I decided to do a conference on what India was supposed to be, what its society will be like, what the idea of India would be.
I invited Seshadri Chari who was the editor of Organiser the magazine is the official publication of the the Hindu nationalist organisaion RSS. Several people from the Left also came. I get a phone call from 10 Janpath. Not Mrs. Please withdraw this invitation to Seshadri Chari. Ten minutes later the phone rings again. I said I was not going to do that. Debroy soon found doors and windows closing on him.
No names were taken, everything was expected to be understood and gnomes got to work. Read his TOI interview here. The preceding paras have a common thread — that of the havoc that can be wreaked by stupidity. Italian economist and historian Carlo Maria Cipolla has written about the dangers of working with stupid people. I will come to that shortly. Stupid pursuits, stupid ambitions and stupid search for crumbs that fall off from the high tables of a few loyalists, devotees and vassals are the mainstay of corrupt and slothful leadership.
Roy feels stifled by a New India mob that is cruel. And what is that? It is one that has ensured paeans to a family over decades, actively participating in cover-ups, historical distortion, usurpation of democratic discourse and sidelining of dissent. One should not be using caste to their advantage, if indeed they proclaim themselves as indifferent to caste or religion. By the way, many Christians hide their name with with Hindu name.
I wonder why they have to do that. The roots of caste system have gone deep in the Indian society. The present day Indian politics is nourishing it with advance manures and fertilisers. No one is talking of casteless society.
Even the Left could trnform caste in to class rather they have acknowledged caste as the realy of the Indian society. One is born in to a particular caste withous his or her fault. But with his or her her experieces and education when he or she abhors castes he oe she is viewed with castangle as if he or she has no right to talk about it. Are we so comparmentalised thst we can not talk about others. If you filter sane comment then goodluck asking for support. Media is breaking their own knee by censoring intellectual comments while dumbest of the lots are published in full glory.
All useful idiots are still paying for cable and print but that space is already taken. If her father is a Brahmin then she is Brahmin by birth. If her mother is Brahmin then 5th generation onwards would be Brahmins provided each generation marries a Brahmin girl continuously.
The problem with Brahmins cult is that it is based on manipulation and stolen temples of Buddhists. Test of rejection of brahminism must be that they should accept that all temples older than years are actually Buddhists temples and the idols in it are actually Buddhists one. Here is an example that will shock everyone: check triupati temple idol. Compare it with Buddhist idol. It is stolen one.
Clothes and jewels are used to mask this fact. Who makes a naked idol? If clothes are required then it is carved in stone. Most Hindu idols have clothes and jewels because the original idol is actually a Buddhist one.! Also address the fact that there is no archeological proof of devnagri script. Oldest Vedic scripture is hardly years old.! Zero proof of any other thing. Even in ayodhaya Buddhist name: Saket all the archeological things are that of Buddhist temple only.
Can any Brahmin accept this fact? They know everything is fake but it gives them privilege so they continue to be hypocrite or doublethinker. Based on your research ideology, can you please explain whether Khajuraho temple was a Buddhist temple or a Hindu temple?
Have your ever seen Tirupati Balaji as an ordinary devotee standing in queue for hours to to have a glimpse of him for few seconds for you to notice how he looks like? Tirupati idol is not naked dumb ass!! All the jewels you see fit to the ones carved on the stone!! You seem to be a Buddhist casteist!! Dude have you ever seen the idol at Tirupati?
The gold jewelry fit to the stone carved jewelry of the idol!! You want to paint the whole country with Buddhist brush?? What you have written is pure fiction you got from your own imagination. If you go to any reputed scholar and say that Hinduism is just years old they will just laugh at you. I think it is the problem of the Indian education system that people like you believe pseudo history is real. Maybe I can recommend some historical books for you to read as whatsapp forwards are no source for factual information.
Buddhism came from Brahminism or Arya Dharma. Buddha called his teaching Arya Marga. Original Hinduism was called Arya Dharma. Buddhism is about spiritual upliftment.
These so called Neo -Buddhists are for benefits only. Genuine Buddhist are Chinese Buddhists, who were suppressed by Christian elite of Kuomintang and Communists during last years. Bulk of Indian Buddhist are faux-Buddhists. In India everything is faux. You are simply a joke. You probably will even argue that Nalanda was not destroyed by Muslims. May be in your case ignorance is bliss, because then you can live with all your nonsenses. From where did find these fantastic ideas bro… should be influenced by the church and leftist propaganda….!
Your knowledge is assumption based on biased influence from unverified source. The earliest inscriptions in Tirupati temple are in CE. There is no concrete evidence to conclude that Tirumala temple was originally a Buddhist shrine. While the caste system is evil and needs to be uprooted, how will your hatred of people help with it? JNU would be too commonplace for you. Try Harvard. They just took in Smt Nidhi Razdan as an Assistant Professor, totally innocent of any peer reviewed published article or any substantial teaching experience, not to speak of a BA degree and a PG in journalism.
This is all a bunch of bs. Just because lower class cannot escape their previous casts, upper class is forced to stick with theirs? If she says she is not a brahmin, she is not. Equating any Brahmin today with a criminal simply because of their caste shows very poor understanding of the issues involved. A time has come for introspection as to why is the world so bothered whether Arundhati Roy is a Brahmin or not?
Similarly, if a Dalit does not identify as a Dalit he or she is not one. Now who is willing to take the plunge and identify yourself as a human — Nothing more nothing less. So you are comparing Brahmins with criminals?? Whoa, this is the rule of law that Leftists want not only in India, but in the West also. So according to you O brilliant one, a doctors son is always a doctor even if he denies being a doctor? Arundhati Roy is Christian period.
She is also an ungrateful refugee from former East Pakistan. She can be some other upper caste, both not a Brahmin. If you want to defeat the caste system, you have to defeat the entire hierarchy. You forget the role that Kshatriyas played or play in enforcing the system. You forget the role that Vaishyas play in strictly following the system. In UP the caste fight mostly is between Yadavs and Mauryas. Which of them are Brahmins? You forget that many OBCs are strictly anti Dalits.
Also, what is most needed right now is that SC ST people who are grassroots, who do not necessarily speak in eloquent English, lead the fight against the caste system. Their views and their ground realities, their needs should be heard. Right now this fight is being led by English speaking SC ST people who mostly talk about reservation and forget about their poorer Brethren. I know you will think whatever I said as drivel, but the nature of the fight against caste system will change because India is changing.
You will need to brace yourself for that and learn to understand new nuances of speaking. I agree with you. You can add Maharashtra too — here Marathas largest cast still follow untouchability even if no Brahmins live in the village. It is very prevalent and practiced by many if not all. Well said. The allegation raised in this article that Arundhati Roy is being hypocritical by claiming herself to be casteless and denying herself being a Brahmin, smacks of sensationalism. To counter the message, massenger needs to be condemned.
This journalist will reach heights. Roy is not a caste surname. It is used by all castes in India. But anything is okay to beat her with. Friday, 12 November, Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery. One kind of measure for the leaders impact also his final ceremony ANNADURAI is the only one leader In the entire human history who still now possess most people gathered final journey How many people in India knows this truth?
Shabash mere liberal revolutionary… Aise hi ek doosre ko cancel karo. Very well said Riti We as a family have faced the same and continue to do so.
There is such a decisive mentality in our country that hinders the talent. Well said And such is the state of media in our country, still they claim indemnity These people are the biggest brokers of our society. After the UP election, Prannoy interviewed Yogi and asked his view on caste. And it is because of idiots like you that we still carry burdens from colonial India.
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