India not democratic: Roy

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India not democratic: Roy

http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/may-2006/24/index11.php


BY OUR MONITORING DESK

A Human rights activist and prominent Indian writer Arundhati Roy has said India is not a democratic state.
The 1997 Booker winner Arundhati Roy addressing a book reading function in New York said, “India is not a democratic country”.

“The biggest PR myth of all times is that India is a democracy. In reality, it is not,” Roy, the author of The God of Small Things told the 1,000-strong audience at a book reading function she attended along with Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America’s most distinguished writer.

She said she was confused, as India was passing through a terrible time. Amidst frequent clapping, she blasted the Indian government.

She did not spare even Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “There is no real democracy in India. Several states in India are on the verge of civil war,” she said.

Challenging the much-acclaimed views of columnist Thomson Friedman praising India, a democracy of a billion population, for conducting peaceful elections year after year, she said, “probably needs a new tour of India... Does Thomas know that in Kashmir Valley alone, some 80,000 people have been killed? In Kashmir Valley there are some 7,00,000. Military personnel.”

India, she said, was a free market meant to steal from the poor and subsidies the rich.

 

[Lahori paa jee]

Dont know whats the definition of democracy for her. If India is not a democracy God know what is

 

[Bull]

Dont know whats the definition of democracy for her. If India is not a democracy God know what is

She weant all the way to US to say that.

 

[MastanKhan]

Hi,

She is absolutely right. India is not as much democratic as it has made the world believe it to be. The amazing thing is that the western nations turn a blind eye to the racism and racial prejudice and of all the countries. Shame on israel and israelis for having any kind of relationship with people who segragate groups on their castes, a nation whose higher castes believe in the reverse swastika symbol, where lighter the color of your skin makes from a reverd caste or a higher status.

India only gets away with what it does is because pakistan and pakistanis have not learnt how to use the system to their benefit. Pakistanis have a habbit of firing blanks in the air for the bang to scare of outsiders. India makes that blank look real thing to the world.

Here is india sitting upon our chest and strangling us and letting the world know that if we get up, we will kill him. And the world believes him, because at every oppurtunity we get, we state that we are not afraid of india and we will take it down and india turns around and says to the world, see I told you so.

So, this empty rhetoric of ours is killing us. The biggest absuser of human rights and killer of millions of muslims gets a free ride from the world.


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[Spring Onion]

She weant all the way to US to say that.

yeh i wish if u could say the same for all those comments by women from our part who did the same in US.

 

[Neo]

yeh i wish if u could say the same for all those comments by women from our part who did the same in US.

Touche!

 

[Samudra]

Come on!
A rape victim is different from a Communist pig.