Salil Tripathi, in his piece Maostan of Arundhati Roy for Mint, nails Arundhati Roy. Figuratively, of course.
Fascination with Maoism is beyond moral sensibility. It is a parallel universe, where recalling Gandhian hunger strikes evokes hysterical laughter; where poor treatment of women in the forests is equated with their poor treatment in the cities. This takes moral equivalency to a new low. This is amoral nihilism.
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April 1, 2010 at 12:03 pm
dev
I thought her Come September speech was quite powerful and her stance against imperialism of all kind, religious, national etc did somewhat ring a bell with me. But the article by Salil Tripathi is a great calm logical rebuttal if I saw any. Brings your idealist self where everything has two sides down to earth where one has to be a little more right.
April 2, 2010 at 11:22 am
Aditya Kuvalekar
Hi Iyer,
Landed here a few weeks ago. Don’t know if you recall me.
Quite liked your blog.
And btw, this is one rebuttal attempt from me about Ms.Roy’s article.
http://thebackbenchers.in/2010/04/01/9-is-not-11-10-is-not-13-and-we-are-not-stupid-ms-roy/
April 2, 2010 at 11:23 am
Deepak Iyer
@Aditya : Of course I remember you. I’ll take a look.
Landed where ?
April 10, 2010 at 4:07 am
Kuruvilla M U
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[Pieces from my novel being written]
February 4, 2010.
Govindan Kutty could have become Madhavan Nair of ISRO if he had been pragmatic.
Kutty says in a nutshell:
Fifty percent of the world resources are used for making weapons. What for? To shoot birds? No, to exterminate humanity.
My grandma said, ‘If you want to catch a crow at sunny noon: follow it with a little solid butter; climb the tree, slowly, and reach the branch on which it rests; put the butter on its head; the butter will melt, flow down and blind the bird; then catch it.’
Jayaprakash Narayan, with the same mindset of my grandma, requested Qinists*, “Lay down arms and support my movement.’
As a child I ignored my grandma but when I grew up, I followed JP — I was an ardent follower. I was a lamb.
Unfortunately, they called me dog first; then they said, “You’re a stray dog.” They wanted to kill me.
My miserably-wailing mother-in-law asked my neighbours ‘Why does my son-in-law — who said so many times that he preferred suicide — not commit suicide?’
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Am I, Kuruvilla M U, another Govindankutty? I don’t know. Let my thoughts be after the latest reports.
Let the thoughts swirl around Dr. Binayak Sen who was detained by the Chhattisgarh Police in May 2007. He is a living-somebody for me; to me a humanoid follower of Gandhi the only Homo s Sapien — Krishna, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were Logoses! Oh, you may say I am creating a personality cult. I am not . . . .
Tuesday, April 6, 2010.
News from all TV channels:
Qinist ambush in Chhattisgarh has killed more than seventy-five humanoids belonging to a company of 120 CRPF Patrols! Chidambaaram, Anthony, Mookherji and three Service Chiefs of Sindhustan** meet. BJP announces: “Wipe out Qinists! We’ll give full support to the Government.”
APS and APM*** applaud BJP.
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Ambush shows that you are cowards, and not straightforward, hey Qinists! Sindhustanis will not support you. They will support the Service Chiefs.
I would have applauded you if you had acted on the advice of your Cobra-Eyed Sow under whose leadership you had surrounded the barracks of around 25 Petrols and shot them down — even if you did today’s ambush under her order, since she had earlier proved herself to be a mini Joan of Sindhu.
What do you say, Govindan Kutty? Remember, this question comes from another Govindan Kutty.
What do you say, Arundhati, you bold lady? I appreciate your MOONWALKING with your comrades across Dandakaranya as personal guest of the Qinists.
I can’t understand your mother’s call to announce: “What India needs is a revolution.” Revolution in capitalist India of L’Ambanis? Like your grandma possibly shouted (?): “Declare armed struggle against the colonialists and lynch them all, including the Viceroy.”
Gandhi was cleverer than the whole lot of our grandparents. Remember, our grandparents did not “swaddle themselves with Gandhi’s pious humbug about the superiority of the non-violent way.”
I assert: We pooh, pooh Gandhi; the West wants; the Planet wants.
One of us — your mother or me — is wrong, for both are old. You are rather young, but.
One question Ma`am: Do the Qinists really despise the quintessential part of the culture of capitalist modernity? How about you? How about your Mom?
I know you worship Qin. I’m wondering whether you’ll get support from Hwang-Ho.
Allegorical and/or metaphorical references:
Qin – Mao; Sindhu – India; APS – Animal Party of Sindhu; APM – Animal Party Majorist; Hwang-Ho – China.
Kuruvilla M U
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April 8, 2010 at 9:27 am | #2
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PS:
TOI News Flash on the verdict of a Patna court — after 12 years — on the midnight massacre of 58 sleeping Dalit men, women and children, most brutally committed by Ranvir Sena:
“16 to hang for Bihar Carnage”
10 Get Life Term For Caste Killing That Shook The Country
My advice to Qinists:
Choose Kishenji as your unquestioned leader and order him: “Throw away your gun and be twenty-first century Gandhi of the Planet.”
Kuruvilla M U
April 10, 2010 at 5:10 am
Kuruvilla M U
Sorry, the above one is a copy of my comments posted in “Moonwalking With The Comrades <<CCRHS Blog".