Bigot Avatar - Arundhati Roy?
It may not be very chivalrous of me to lambaste a woman for speaking her mind. But the Booker prize winner has made gauche statements to the people of India. Despite trying hard to overlook , it forces the average Indian like me to respond.Seperatist Arundhati Roy and Comrade Geelani have questioned the territorial integrity of India? As the spineless government in Delhi has no nads to act on sedition, lest Arundhati forget: civil society is not behind her.
As India, inevitably protects its borders from irritant neighbours, Arundhaty Roy calls it "Militarization of Democracy".Does she realize what a phoney she looks by infuriating the people.She condones the 26/11 attacks to say; it has to be seen in context with 'partition of India' and the poverty in the subcontinent. Yellow eyed maybe, she does not see Maoist attacks as violence, but the defence of the state as ruthless.And then she is a "social activist",beware.She is painting her views on the coterie of activists( men with khaki kurtas and women draped in gothic saris and big bindis).But the jocular facet is,her contentions are both laughable and galling and therefore, she cannot hide beneath the sheep's skin.
Did Arundhati Roy forget the Kashmiri Pandit exodus in late 80's, lakhs of them forced to leave the valley because of extremism and intolerance.Geelani(emmisary of Pakistan) and Roy have not stood for minorities in the valley,Was Roy sapient enough to see a Kashmir with ONLY SECULAR rule under India, will bring egality to minorities? Did she forget the slaughter of Sikhs by Lashkar? Is she not perspicacious enough to fathom ,that security forces cannot leave Kashmir to the wolves waiting across the border? Was she, the blindfolded Ghandhari to forget that India strives to help minorities, has announced economic packages for Kashmir, provided opportunity to every Kashmiri to compete and participate in building a future within India. Let us remind Arundhati Roy that an Indian outside Kashmir cannot buy land in Kashmir, but vice versa is not prohibited.What kind of justice is this to the average Indian? She may not realize that, when mobs attack our security forces, they shall rightfully fire in self defence.
Freedom of speech gives the latitude to criticize the government, the policies, the state for malfunctioning. But Arundhati Roy is a criminal to incite sedition and she deserves her term in prison and should be muzzled for life in India. She has blatantly, flagrantly misused her freedom of speech to hurt the sentiments and the patriotic mindscape of India.She could live and work in China though and question Tibet's occupation.
Kashmir is and will be a part of India.Only India,gives a fair deal to Buddhists in Leh,to Sikhs and Hindus in Jammu. As for History, Its not a Muslim copyrighted land. It has strong Hindu roots and innumerable ancient Hindu texts quote Kashmir.With that logic ,even Pakistan cannot be only for Muslims. SECULAR INDIA is a fair deal to all religions and to the people of Kashmir who are inextricably a part of India. So Roy, we know you are an apostate to the nation,to the people of India and you are the definition of the word "BIGOT".
The timing could not be more appropriate for a maxim from Panchatantra (India ancient fables) to people who speak without forethought.
अदेशकालज्ञमनायतिक्षमं यदप्रियं लाघवकारि चात्मनः ।
योऽत्राब्रवीत्कारणवर्जितं वचो न तद्वचः स्याद्विषमेव तद्वचः ॥
If one speaks without knowledge of place, or time, or without fore thought, or discomforting others, or diminishing oneﾒs own weight, or without any reason, such a speech will be as dangerous as poison.
- Panchatantra, Kakolukiya
