She has Lost it
Thursday, 17. April 2008 - 10:16 AM
It’s raining Tibetan protests worldwide. I have equal love for China and Pakistan. But what’s wrong with the Verbal Terrorist?
NDA leader George Fernandes and author Arundhati Roy will join hundreds of Tibetans in a torch relay parallel to the Olympic flame run in the Capital on Thursday.
The Verbal Terrorist has featured countless times on this blog. Several readers had concluded that she is a staunch Communist. But I still claim she’s a plain opportunist with sub-zero creative writing skills–that includes her only “book.” From railing incoherently against imperialism (needless to say it only means USA) to calling Bush (?) a monkey, she has suddenly woken up to the fact that China has unfairly treated Tibet. A sudden strike on her conscience perhaps? Or fear of missing out on her share of the limelight? Or has she just lost it?
17. April 2008 - 10:47 AM
Arundhati is simply mimicking her western liberal overlords for whom Buddhism has become the latest fashion. Railing against the west (themselves) is also a fashion for these western neocolonialist types. They prefer the orientalist spoils to accrue to them rather than their conservative adversaries. There are two types of priests (ie westerners):
1. the priest who consigns the heathen to damnation (conservative)
2. the priest who “loves” the heathen in the same way that a pedophile priest loves the child victim (liberal)
There is also an attempt to isolate Buddhism as a prodigal child fundamentally separated from the damned Hindus (and also from the traditional Chinese). This is a ‘divide and rule’ tactic on the sociological level. A U-turn of the Buddhist image in the west will come once China and India have been cut down to size (unless an AIT version of Buddhism can be conjured up). These tactics are designed to get the Chinese and Indians to disown Buddhism.
17. April 2008 - 11:00 AM
If Arundhati Roy is joining Tibetan protests, I’d say she’s at long last displaying a modicum of consistency with her shrill “moral” “ethical” “I am outraged” rhetoric (which by the way is mostly humbug). I’dn’t fault her on the count of joining the protests, I’d fault her for not speaking up against her commie pals who are justifying Chinese communist oppression of Tibet. Just as she advocated a boycott of Pepsi and Coke, will she call for a boycott of The Hindu?
17. April 2008 - 11:23 AM
Sandeep, George Fernandes is participating to protest against Chinese aggression in Tibet, while Arundhati will be doing so to support it !!
17. April 2008 - 12:04 PM
Western Liberals who rail against the West,
corporatism, and the like are not actually anti-west.
This is a routine designed to demonstrate the west’s
absolute power; that is, to the extent that they can
even (unconsequentially) condemn themselves. It is an
exercise in extreme hubris. Witzel, Nussbaum, Marx,
Arundhati, and their congeners are all similarly
motivated. Ask yourself why do they love Buddhism but
hate Hinduism? Why did they happily sponsor Romila and why did Romila happily accept?
But there is also the opportunist angle to her relay
run. As well as a design to deny the parity of Hindu
concerns. And a sadist desire to turn the entire
array of Tibetan concerns into a tamasha. Why
Secularists deem themselves as environmentalists and
champions of the downtrodden? It is only to falsely
deny Hindu parity and legitimacy in these issues. And then there are the orientalist motivations.
China angle is minimal here.
18. April 2008 - 10:37 AM
I’m not sure Comrade Roy turned up. She either chickened out or crossed over to join the Torch Bachao Andolan.
20. April 2008 - 8:31 PM
San, I ran with the ‘protest torch’ and I did not see her! Media covered her ‘so running’ in advance, so her sole purpose of getting some ‘mention’ was met with, so why bother running at all…!
Well, I am an eye witness and with responsibility can say she were no where, have checked with all those i know, around and yet no body, had either seen or heard of her, besides me.
PI.
27. April 2008 - 3:42 PM
I agree with kishkindhaa. She is an oportunist.