and the only way we can ensure that it does not happen in future is by admitting it and learning from it........
Admitting & learning? Sure we do, that's why India has been able to do a fairly decent job of integrating its different groups. Sure there are mistakes & more will be committed but we give every Indian the same democratic right that the rest have. I see that you compared the state of India with British colonialism, the main difference is that the British never considered us a part of their nation nor did they give us the same rights they had. That's moot. Many countries disallow secession of their parts including the United States which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the government of the U.S. v/s Texas. Nothing at all wrong there. The argument of being colonial falls flat when you remember that there is no constitutional bar for any Indian to get to any post which is not something the British ever considered.
Arundhati Roy has, unfortunately many followers for her ideas which include the support for armed Maoists to overthrow a democratic state. The claims that Maoists have wide support is completely untrue because if they did in fact have that kind of support, they could stand in elections & win on their agenda.
Support in remote tribal areas for people with guns are not the same as support in the absence of that gun. Arundhathi Roy is a seeker of causes, if it is not this, it's something else. She got involved in the Narmada campaign, at one point dictating to Amir Khan that he could not be a part of the campaign till he stopped endorsing Coke which by her twisted mentality created a disqualification for supporting the agitation over a dam. She subsequently made contemptuous remarks on the judges of the Supreme Court & was sentenced to jail where she was given an opportunity to stand up for her convictions by refusing to pay a fine & instead undergo further imprisonment for 15 days. She chickened out, paid the fine & got out. So much for the strength of her convictions! She hates the Indian middle class & therefore criticises everything that they hold dear. She dramatically renounced her Indian citizenship in an article on a British newspaper after the nuclear tests & yet refuses to let go of her India bashing. She enjoys the adulation of the west, pretty much spends most of her time there & yet criticises every Indian who aspires to a higher standard of living. She wrote one bad book ages ago & continues to inflict herself on us thereafter. She is
"a janda in search of an agenda". Anything where she might portray herself as this great crusader(only as long as she does not have to go to jail for her convictions- that is her limit for support) will do. Comparing her with Pakistanis like Najam Sethi or HassanNisar or Parvez Hoodbhoy is silly because those gentlemen don't hate Pakistan & certainly don't support a violent overthrow of democracy.
This lady does not care for India & it is time we reciprocate similarly.
