Comments on: She has Lost it

By: MEDIAPOLITICS

MEDIAPOLITICS — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:12:32 +0000

I agree with kishkindhaa. She is an oportunist.

By: prudent indian

prudent indian — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:01:27 +0000

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.

By: Ot

Ot — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:07:33 +0000

I’m not sure Comrade Roy turned up. She either chickened out or crossed over to join the Torch Bachao Andolan.

By: Kishkindhaa

Kishkindhaa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:34:50 +0000

Several readers had concluded that she is
a staunch Communist. But I still claim sheâ€™s a plain
opportunist with ..

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.

By: shadows

shadows — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:53:37 +0000

Sandeep, George Fernandes is participating to protest against Chinese aggression in Tibet, while Arundhati will be doing so to support it !!

By: Ot

Ot — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:30:53 +0000

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?

By: Kishkindhaa

Kishkindhaa — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:17:57 +0000

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.