Full Extended Interview: Arundhati Roy on Democracy Now!
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- democracynow.org - Extended interview with Indian writer Arundhati Roy talking about her new novel "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness," Kashmir, Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Indian President Narendra Modi, and two of Roy’s biggest inspirations-Eduardo Galeano and John Berger.
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One can listen to Arundhati Roy over and over again and hear each time something new. True artists are perceived in many layers! She is a giant!
listening in Sep 2023 So amazing
I am an Indian and also from her state and also a Syrian Christian. A
society which silences its authors is going into wrong direction. The
fact that she is giving her opnions without getting killed is the beauty
of democractic India. Try to criticize Islam like Taslima Nasreen from
Bangladesh, then you knows what happens. She was hunted down by
extremist islamic groups in Bangladesh and India where she took refuge.
tony thomas so brother we should compete with Bangladeshis??
The beauty of India??? She's been incarcerated, has been talked about in Indian congress to be convicted many times, and has had death threats since she's been out there, please???!?!!! Listen to what she says about democracy!
She is the quintessential example of pen is powerful then sword
We are very proud of you ma'am arundhati Roy 👍
wow wonderful speech and clear truth
Wondered what had happened to Arundhati Roy -- we miss her activism and insights!
Such a great writer !
I read her book "The God of Small Things," years ago when it was published. It was beautifully written and very disturbing. So if you are considering reading her new book, prepare yourself to read a beautifully written, but very disturbing piece of literature, because I suspect that it is both.
Cleo XO Its so well written its incomparable, I guess its disturbing because its too real
Arundhati is so courageous. Wish we other Indians, particularly Hindus, were about 1/10 th as courageous. India's hope.
"Not old not young but a dieable, viable soul" - the god of small things
"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi not President" ― Correct the description box Democracy Now.
Arundhati is so bang on with her analysis. As an Indian living in delhi, a dalit I know what horrible world this Modi govt has made. India already had so many social fissures but now people are proud of them, be it nationalism, cow vigilantism, hatred towards muslims and dalits, hatred towards kashmiris or pakistan, it literally a fully developed fascist regime.
I just hope India and Indians see the light
Great visionaries like arundhathi roy are needed for making a good india..since i am an indian i know what is happening here in India..here bjp and modi government is suppoting hindhus and in which they only give importance to upper caste people.. so we dont need any hindus ,muslims etc as our leaders,we need good rationaly thinking human beings..all rss people should think who themselves are ..they should think that they are primarily human beings and even a nurse in the hospital in which they born, can change his or her cast or religion...
Pardon my English..
Amy and Suzy, you both inspire generations!
She is quite right that happiness is not a building!
What about Punjab where 65 percent people non Muslims & in 1948 . 22 percent were hindus
No value of Hindus.She never criticized that. British Christian's killed 15 crores people in India & Africa.She criticized Hindus on every platform.
People without whom,our world would have been much beautiful
I must admit, I was radicalized by reading one of her books and wrote a screenplay for a film, which was loosely based on it. Then I came to India to do more research which made me throw my screenplay in a garbage. Why? Because now I was hearing the other side of the story. Suzanna Roy constantly attacks Hindus, and just how she brings casteism in conversation again and again, which is actually illegal and almost evaporated and exists only in extremely rural parts of India. Corporations have no cast. Corporation's religion is nothing but money! Lynching? It's just how many poor and uneducated folks deal with things in India. She conveniently highlights the lynchings of few people who were suspected of illegally exporting cow beef and they happened to be Muslim. The other day a 65 years old Hindu woman was lynched by the mob merely on a suspicion of being involved in child trafficking. She was innocent, but what good was that when she and later few others were lynched to death by an angry mob. It's a heinous crime and cannot be singled out as politicians and herself conveniently do. I and my friends almost got lynched because the car I was driving touched someone's bicycle. It was a wrong place and the wrong time. At the police-station, I was told by a cop that almost all drivers leave the scene and run to the police station, just to avoid lynching by the mob. RSS Doesn't see Indian Muslims how Hitler saw the Jews. She's misleading! Many RSS volunteers are Muslims. I don't disagree with everything she says, but most of what she rants is a complete bullshit.
Dipendra ridiculous.... Casteism still exist..Check the marriage data in india
Mother or sister its the nation which comes first bro.
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Gandhiji deserve to get Nobel price instead of giving it to Mother Teresa. The booker price is the same mastery of getting fund from abroad. Arundhati is one of them getting fund abroad
Arundhati Roy in this interview comes up with a ludicrous analogy around the Kashmir problem: "India's military defence of Kashmir (its own territory, by the way) is exactly the same as US militarily bombing other countries!" It's like accusing the owners who safeguard their house as being equal to pilferers and plunderers! To use Isaac Asimov's axiom, what she says is not just wrong but "wronger than wrong". She needs to think fairly and clearly.
Her argument is simple and reductionist (and hence vacuous to the core). Because Kashmir is a muslim majority state of India, India should be divided and Kashmir must be offered to muslims. The nature of secessionist movement in Kashmir has transformed so much over the decades that today, it's terrorists that control it and Pakistan that funds it wholeheartedly, and the so called "independence" movement is now being waged as jihad, war and killings done for Allah. The terrorist Burhan Wani's death is the best proof of the kinds of leaders and the kind of warfare that exists now. Roy is fine with all this. For her using pellets to deter dissidents is morally unacceptable but terrorism is fully well acceptable. I am shaken at the delusion of her intellect! She needs to think fairly and clearly.
Another issue. Roy not only gives a shaky history of Kashmir's accession to India but wilfully and almost callously ignores to talk about the shameful horror of genocide of Kashmiri pundits by muslims mercenaries because they wanted Kashmir to be cleansed of hindus. For anyone interested in this, read "Our Moon has Blood Clots : The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits" by Rahul Pandita, a rare book that talks about the genocide of hindus. Why this bigotry and discrimination on Roy's side, we don't know. We are all humans and we all deserve to live, doesn't matter which religion we belong to. Roy's callousness towards hindus mass killings is very dark, unsettling and deeply uncomfortable to see especially when she speaks on this issue. She needs to think fairly and clearly.
Let India remain a unified country because UNITY IS STRENGTH: a strong moral imperative for the stability of any nation today. Please don't support terrorists and their separatist causes. That's not how a country is run. Let the leaders do their job and if you are unhappy Ms. Roy, go contest elections and become a leader rather than endlessly and insufferably prattle around in interviews enchanting and befuddling naive and gullible viewers with your biased, discriminatory, stale yet dangerous political views. And stop giving these interviews please where all you to is whine, whine, whine; it's the same old rotten India-bashing script you talk out all the time, nothing new at all. In your own words, it feels much like "The End of Imagination".
Wish you good luck to do something "genuinely" good for the nation. Help citizens, not terrorists.
Arundhati Roy was popular in the anti-war movement in America until Obama was elected. I remeber this great line from one of her speeches. She called George Bush, Bush the Lesser.
Imtihaan is an Urdu word, it means “examination/test/trial/proof/experiment” in English, while in Hindi it’s called as “parikscha/parikschan/suboot/prayog.” . Arundhati Roy is a phenomena It's time 2 talk bout da readers / mal products / M generation .
Mother or sister its the nation that comes first bro
India should make her Prime Minister of India for lifetime.
She can't even win municipal elections.
It's surprising how the comment section is flooded with her country people pulling her down and calling her names. Whether or not you agree with an intellectual of your country (or even other countries) or not, you should not defile them to this extent. A great man once said the country that does not appreciate gifted people are eventually deprived of them.
She has a narrative she is putting forth. If you have better or truer version of the events involving Kashmir or India why not write your own book and see how there would be myriads of people doing the same to you what you are doing to her now.
Calling her a traitor does not help because she said openly that she does not believe in the sanctity of maps.
I don't understand the psychology of calling her communist traitor, she can be communist if she wants, it's not like that's a legally unacceptable act.
These comments just solidify what she has been saying. Indian population who have the privilege of the Internet are obviously not from Dalit community that she is speaking out for. Shows how caste system is still very much engrained in India and runs deep in the minds of educated people.
Anyway, she is going down in history as one of the most prolific women intellectuals from Indian of this time, like it or not.
Try to respect ur birth place and the feeling of it's people.
i would be more understanding and benign towards humanity only if there was a background violin playing in my head.
I would marry her if she asks out! 😉
kamal roy you wish! 😂
Arundhati tries not to restrain?wow the irony!!! Antinational agenda is a great way to spice the blund pages written. .Take a break & get to a neurologist. ..
is'nt she oversimplifying things?
How can anyone oversimplify India's problems? From the view from here and after reading this book I find your comment to be ludicrous. Her novel did anything but oversimplify things.
So Many Dalits and OBC are part of RSS President of India is Dalit PM is OBC.
kalki but he stands for a brahmanical ideology followed by rss
Quit bullshitting. The RSS is not at all "Brahmanical"
RSS is very brahminical..They Revere Manusmiriti
ALOSHY REJI have you even read the manusmriti?? You are simply repeating what these pseudo intellectuals say..
disstruth what do you think brahminical is? You are simply playing on words with no facts.
The ministry of utmost happiness refers to progress at a depth not shallow, however with the roof blown off the communication only brings it together. However the abyss of harshness harnesses that goodness is a part of yourself where even before and after the linkage the relationship doesn’t spoil. You are definitely bold but don’t become so much that the outcome of the strange bond where not only one but both of us get cremated. The ministry of utmost happiness is definitely your nest where you lay your eggs flying high apart in the skyline but I ‘m sorry I couldn’t spell out your ego to a little boy who doesn’t know even what deep relationship I.e. sex is all about. But the relationship before and after doesn’t remain to be the same after the ministry of utmost happiness. I’m sorry. Don’t be disheartened. Take it in a light sense.
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This is an example of intellectual racism...
dashdrohi no 1
Muze smz nahi aa raha hai ki kya bolu mai🤔 Looks me to bahut solid hai, ek dam high profile ora hai iska...but kitni badmaas hai😒
she looks like some bhuki bangalan
Massive respect to Arundhati Roy as a Pakistani. Wish more Indians were like her.
She is from my place. Its the beauty of India that she is not getting murdered. India gives rights to its writers. We know what happened to Taslima Nasreen in Bangladesh. As a Christian, I am happy to live in a Hindu country than an islamic Pakistan or Bangladesh. Muslim population has only increased in India. Minority population has decreased from 20% to 4% in Pakistan and Bangladesh in the last 60 years
She has forgotten how kashmiri pandits were driven out by majority muslims in Kashmir valley. Muslims were called upon by Imams in the mosque to drive out Hindu pandits. We dont need Wahabbi Islam in India like now in Pakistan and Bangladesh
We both know that Kashmir cannot exist as independent between 2 nuclear powers. Islam came to my place at the time of Prophet Muhammed through arab traders. We used to have an indian Islam, now our Islam has become more Wahabbi Islam with the money flow from Saudi. Wahabbi Islam makes you see the world only as black and white. I dont speak Hindi. Our 27 official languages are protected. We have more muslims than in Pakistan. India is still secular although we have 80% Hindus. Do you think a writer like Arundathi can survive in Pakistan if she had criticized islamists or Islam or Quran?
said the sadist to the masochist. I bet you do wish that.
Tenaki2427 a lot of us are - we just have no voice
She is exaggerating things 100 times. She is telling incidents that happened over 30 years as if it all happened after Modi came to power. Yes there were rapes but she is not saying about culprits bought to justice in most of the cases. She has absolutely no positive things to say. She conveys India is like a place where is no law an order at all. She is the world of literature and dreams only where one can magnify the things as per their whims and fantasies
Anti national
Lies....
How?
On drugs...what else can she do for ISI and Money ?
Every nation has it's whores. We just have a creative black noodles as ours
sanch Sanchayan lol you think that you're white? Haha
Ms Roy's curl, descending on the middle of her forehead, is a distraction from her serious accomplishments. They are of sufficient merit to overcome the distraction which might trivialize a less important person.
blah-blah by biased beauty...
sexist comment , not judging the depth of the matter .
Fake news about india
This woman is absolutely anti national. It is good she born in India.If he born in any other country she should have jailed for anti nationalism. She need to learn more about India. She strike for Kashmiris but she cannot speech in the soil of Kashmir.
First off why are we coming to this somehow expecting that one should invariably love his/her nation? After all it is an accident of birth and if we are going to contribute with our insights meaningfully and reasonably this is first step to overcome. Anti national isn't a crime in and of itself. It becomes a crime when one's motives are questionable And out of all the issues Arundathi Roy brings to our attention a huge majority of indians seem to just stop at their first concern " She is anti national" are there by shut themselves off to some genuinely important urgent things India needs addressed. Please criticism her more thoughtfully not on the basis of nationalism. There are other s virtues that are far more needed in the world today
she got to be joking modi is the biggest refomer india has ever had. esp ending unlimited corruption. & Promoting women.
dont listen to all assholes.
Really.
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Ending curruption..?Who funds him..?
She is so wrong about a lot of things:-
1) Democracy in India - The fact that she can talk, write and publish herself in India is a testimony that India is a healthy democracy and in line with Hindu values of celebrating diversity
2) Geder- Her book conflates the concept of sex wth gender. As a cis gendered person she needs to stop falsely representing transgenders as it is highly wrong and misleading. She talks about hermaphroditism but that is a biological condition. Transgender is NOT the result of biology but is psychological and the result of gender dysphoria, which is far more convoluted and complex.
3) Kashmiris- Again IG you want opinions from Kashmiris, call the Kashmiris and ask what they want . She is not a Kashmiri and therefore cannot represent Kashmiris.
Be authentic and represent yourself and do not appropriate voices and causes that are not yours as your appropriating their vices represses the authentic ones and will lead to gross misrepresentation.
I am queer and I approve how she represents our community, she clearly says that the hijra community has intersex people who took female hormone based therapy as well as "traditional" transgender women and understands the complexity of our situation far more than rightwing people like you who don't have the intelligence to think beyond the idea that we are mentall ill perverts who can't choose their gender and their sexual partners
Arundhat Roy has crypto Jewish mother
USA also,Christian country,just look at Britain,almost gone ,same France .