Aatish Taseer: The TNB Self-Interview

[Hobo1]

Aatish Taseer dissects Arundhati Roy

Aatish Taseer | Aatish Taseer: The TNB Self-Interview | The Nervous Breakdown

Ida: Sorry! So, we’ve talked about Noon, we’ve talked about Pakistan and your father, what about India? You’ve said some pretty harsh things about a certain writer cum activists on the Left–no names!–who, we in the States, kind of like. She seems, in an environment of rapacious capitalism, to be a friend of the poor and marginalised. What possible objection could you have to her?

Aatish: None except that I don’t think she’s a friend of the poor at all. She would like to doom them to a permanent state of picturesque poverty. They are beautiful to her–the poor–beautiful, benign and faceless. And that is exactly how she wants them to stay. Let me say also that it is not the poor who animate her politics. Oh, no! The people who get her into the streets are the new middle classes. This class, still among the most fragile in India, people who have newly emerged from the most dire conditions, are despicable to her. She mocks their clothes; their trouble with English; she hates their ambitions; when India wins the cricket and she sees them celebrating, her skin crawls; she wants, more than anything, to do these people down. And it is her overwhelming hatred of them that allows her to be a friend of movements that are seemingly far apart. The jihadists, the Maoists, the Kashmir movement, the anti-development people…they’re all her friends. Anyone who can prove a credible threat to the future of India is a friend of that woman. I would go so far as to say she has a prurient fascination with the enemies of India. And where do they love her? In Pakistan, and in the faculty rooms of Europe and America. No surprise there.

Also, this business of pretending she’s a lone voice in the wilderness. What rubbish! At least have the good grace to admit that not one thing she says is provocative or new; it is perfectly banal. And we know how well the universities Europe and America reward this bogus cant!

 

[Paan Singh]

exactly...she was favoring maoist when they derailed train which killed 150+

 

[Shadow_Hunter]

traitors like Roy deserve this....

 

[livingdead]

traitors like Roy deserve this....

People have freedom to voice their opinion. You are a traitor to democracy and freedom of speech.

 

[Whazzup]

People have freedom to voice their opinion. You are a traitor to democracy and freedom of speech.

Even he is expressing his opinion on Roy that makes you a traitor to democracy too.

 

[perplexed]

Even he is expressing his opinion on Roy that makes you a traitor to democracy too.

How so ? There is a difference between voiving an opinion and trying to suppress another voice !!
Anyways, she is entitled to her opinion and lesser mortals like us don't give a damn what she says... she was nonne for me ago and will be so even after she die :|

 

[livingdead]

Even he is expressing his opinion on Roy that makes you a traitor to democracy too.

Lol no, you are free to criticize her, just dont try to kill her!!!
Those who call her maoist sympathizer, she was the one who stick her neck out and criticized "Anna and team" to be greater danger to govt's authority (and democracy and federal structure) than maoists.

I dont need to agree to everything she says, to support her right to free speech. Remember, there are enough brave people in pakistan who you admire, are doing exactly that. They may be right/wrong.

 

[Shadow_Hunter]

People have freedom to voice their opinion. You are a traitor to democracy and freedom of speech.

how did i become a traitor just by critisizing her, do u even know the meaning of freedom of speech???

 

[53fd]

What dissection? He has done essentially what any clueless person would do, that an intellectual would never do: shoot the messenger, without looking at/refuting the message.

 

[Kaniska]

Aatish Taseer dissects Arundhati Roy

Aatish Taseer | Aatish Taseer: The TNB Self-Interview | The Nervous Breakdown
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He is damn spot on with his exact comment on tht idiot woman...

 

[Whazzup]

How so ? There is a difference between voiving an opinion and trying to suppress another voice !!
Anyways, she is entitled to her opinion and lesser mortals like us don't give a damn what she says... she was nonne for me ago and will be so even after she die :|

It was just a joke didn't expected you to take it so seriously.

 

[Hobo1]

What dissection? He has done essentially what any clueless person would do, that an intellectual would never do: shoot the messenger, without looking at/refuting the message.

Last time Suzanne opened her mouth it was against Anna and qualms she had against Anna was thathe was addressing each and every problem which India was facing, as if Anna was some super hero. Anna has done lot for his home town and area around it. Where as Suzanne has done nothing compared to what Anna has done and accomplished.

In 2002 in an article she wrote that she would he the first in line standing in Pakistan against an incoming Indian nuke missile, It seems Suzzane Aunty forgot that it was Pak which has been most aggressive in Indo-Pak equation ,kargil was an excellent example for this. And she is greatly pained by Gujarat but Bitc%^ has no nothing to say for what PA did in Bangladesh.

 

[Hobo1]

Lol no, you are free to criticize her, just dont try to kill her!!!
Those who call her maoist sympathizer, she was the one who stick her neck out and criticized "Anna and team" to be greater danger to govt's authority (and democracy and federal structure) than maoists.

I dont need to agree to everything she says, to support her right to free speech. Remember, there are enough brave people in pakistan who you admire, are doing exactly that. They may be right/wrong.

Stuff of this sort happen only in Pakistan and Muslim nations.