Indian writer Arundhati Roy returns National Award in protest

[jamahir]

haha,
Congress pretty much sold the entire nation out - that was absolutely kosher.
No protests for rapes, riots, murders, loot, policy paralysis, by congress.? Heads of our soldiers were chopped off, and your Mani Shankar Aiyer was busy wagging his tail to the other side - where was the outrage then, why didn't you sonia ji go to president and say this is gross incompetence?
Where was the outrage when 26/11 happened, none of the intellectuals came out to protest what the reaction of the government has been.
Where were these Intellectuals during the doctor strike, India against corruption? there were the same Aholes claiming that India against corruption is holding the government hostage?
Today,
Some fringe groups perpetrate crimes- and India becomes an intolerant country. - great logic indeed.

To me the most unfortunate part is PM should address the nation and expose this congress facade.

As far as this sahitya akedemi - look up who were appointed in this organisation, how they have been pals with congress and friends.

mate, I have no problem with dissent, but where was this dissent for the last 60 years, is this intolerance discovered in the last 12 months?

These jackA$$es are tarnishing the international image of India by attributing the actions of some fringe groups to the government of India, these congress lackeys have fallen to such despicable levels that they are willing to go against the nation to serve their masters.

You have a problem with some fringe Hindu group, Go to the PMO and protest against that group, go to the courts - I am sure congress has hordes of such lawers - as they have been and will be needing them. Use the existing infrastructure to clampdown, but what congress and thier lackeys are doing is nothing but dis-service to the nation.

you clearly support the bjp government and yet you told me...

don't care about them either.... I don't have to stick to any allegiances, as I have none. - simple

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these congress lackeys have fallen to such despicable levels that they are willing to go against the nation to serve their masters.

"against the nation", you said, and another such accusatory word is "anti-national".

you know, nationalists were always the death of a society, keeping alive the very traditions, mores and political/social system that kept the society regressive, backward, reactionary and unjust... one other thing is nationalists do is enslave their country to the western bloc.

i dislike nationalists... being a socialist, i am a internationalist, a transnationalist.

 

[GR!FF!N]

do you want it to happen everyday??

of course nobody protest a murder which happened decade ago in this way.so,did any such murder even took place recently?

 

[MilSpec]

i dislike nationalists... being a socialist, i am a internationalist, a transnationalist.

add delusion-alist

 

[Star Wars]

Citizenship bhi return kar do....

 

[AugenBlick]

Citizenship bhi return kar do....

That is for Aasam elections.

, a transnationalist.

well atleast you got the trans part right

 

[Baby-5]

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Indian writer Arundhati Roy returns National Award in protest

- November 05, 2015 - Updated 1313 PKT - From Web Edition


Indian writer Arundhati Roy returns National Award in protest


Renowned Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy has said that she is returning her 1989 National Award for Best Screenplay to protest rising attacks on minorities, murder of rationalists, and threats to free speech in India.

Roy becomes the latest to join a number of Indian filmmakers, writers and scholars who have returned their awards in what is a growing chorus of anger at perceived intolerance and spiraling Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The author of "The God of Small Things", who won the National Award for Best Screenplay in 1989 for the film "In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones", announced that she was returning the award in a column published in an Indian newspaper today.

She said returning the award allowed her "to be a part of a political movement initiated by writers, filmmakers and academics in this country who have risen up against a kind of ideological viciousness and an assault on our collective IQ that will tear us apart and bury us very deep if we do not stand up to it now."

"I believe what artists and intellectuals are doing right now is unprecedented, and does not have a historical parallel. It is politics by other means. I am so proud to be part of it. And so ashamed of what is going on in this country today," she wrote in her column for the Indian Express.

Today, we live in a country in which, when the thugs and apparatchiks of the New Order talk of “illegal slaughter”, they mean the imaginary cow that was killed — not the real man who was murdered. When they talk of taking “evidence for forensic examination” from the scene of the crime, they mean the food in the fridge, not the body of the lynched man. We say we have “progressed”, but when Dalits are butchered and their children burned alive, which writer today can freely say, like Babasaheb Ambedkar once did, that “to the untouchables, Hinduism is a veritable chamber of horrors”, without getting attacked, lynched, shot or jailed? Which writer can write what Saadat Hasan Manto wrote in his “Letters to Uncle Sam”? It doesn’t matter whether we agree or disagree with what is being said. If we do not have the right to speak freely, we will turn into a society that suffers from intellectual malnutrition, a nation of fools. Across the subcontinent it has become a race to the bottom — one that the New India has enthusiastically joined. Here too now, censorship has been outsourced to the mob. —Arundhati Roy

Critics of the ruling right-wing BJP accuse it of not doing enough to counter the extremism of Hindu nationalists and to protect freedom of expression in secular but Hindu-majority India.
Indian writer Arundhati Roy returns National Award in protest - thenews.com.pk
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Ji oye Modi Sarkar getting slaps in home land

As she is suffering from very deadly intellectual constipation, only sympathy for her, no animosity.

 

[jamahir]

add delusion-alist

167 years of the "communist manifesto" and its text is yet to reach the awareness of so many in the world.

well atleast you got the trans part right

you sanghis with your 900 bc anti-human ideology and your vedic spacecrafts and your "sanskrit is best language for computer programming" should not be the ones to talk about anything.

no one in the world takes you seriously, except hippies, western governments, western weapons manufacturers and useless capitalist companies.

 

[Musafir117]

As she is suffering from very deadly intellectual constipation, only sympathy for her, no animosity.

All 41 so far who return the awards suffering from that intellectual constipation thingy?

 

[jamahir]

of course nobody protest a murder which happened decade ago in this way.so

which one was that??

did any such murder even took place recently?

wasn't m..m kalburgi the latest victim ( august 2015 )??

 

[ni8mare]

Lollzzz......

 

[Baby-5]

All 41 so far who return the awards suffering from that intellectual constipation thingy?

Since this "thingy" is so wide spread it, it seems all 41 are infected with this disease. When they were asked why they didn't returned their awards when the Sikh pogrom happened during Congress reign, when Kashmiri Pundits were being raped and murdered, when Mumbai Bomb blasts and terror attacks happened, when Kar sevaks of Godhra were burned which resulted in Godhra riots, when MuzaffarNagar riots happened, they are silent.
When asked about what happened which boiled their blood so much??? they are still silent, as These intellectuals cant answer these question by simply saying "See we are Pro congress and Anti-Modi and we dont like Modi as PM of India so by Propaganda we want a Coup like how our neighbors do",
so this return nautanki they do.

wasn't m..m kalburgi the latest victim ( august 2015 )??

So MM kulburgi was killed by Narendra Modi?? or any BJP MP?? Karnatka has Congress govt, it is the congress which should be asked.

 

[jamahir]

So MM kulburgi was killed by Narendra Modi?? or any BJP MP?? Karnatka has Congress govt, it is the congress which should be asked.

so?? are you saying the congress killed him??

i do agree that for circumstances to lead to the kalburgi murder, the karnataka congress did not take preventative action by acting against sangh terrorism beginning in mangalore and suppressing sangh in rest of karnataka... they should have learnt from the kerala communists.

 

[Baby-5]

which one was that??

Decade... please similar incident like Dadri lynching happened but this time the minority was in lead. Please take a good llok on date to which is in sync with dadri lynching -

so?? are you saying the congress killed him??

its not me but you who is accusing central govt and Modi for an unfortunate murder.
Also it is state government which should be responsible for such incidents regarding law and order.

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

Last time I heard about her from people and I quote , " She is Anti Caste Hindus and Gives Anti Indian Speeches in Foreign countries .

If that is a case , Then I am surprised that she decided to join Band wagon so late .

 

[jamahir]

Decade... please similar incident like Dadri lynching happened but this time the minority was in lead. Please take a good llok on date to which is in sync with dadri lynching -

this seems more like a criminal incident where either all the attackers or most were muslim and they ganged up against the victim in a road-rage incident.

any innocent death is sad of course, but why are you equating it to dadri where clearly there was murder over "cow meat" that turned out to be mutton??

its not me but you who is accusing central govt and Modi for an unfortunate murder.
Also it is state government which should be responsible for such incidents regarding law and order.

is the central government communist, with no connection to "sanathan sanstha" ( the group suspected of the assassination )??

at the least, where is modi's statement clearly condemning kalburgi's assassination??