The Algebra of Arundhati’s Injudiciousness

Arundhati Roy is just another nice writer. The fact that she is good looking makes it tough for her to be taken seriously in india, where we still live in the 18th century when it comes to these things. So she picks on some vague target like the Indian government, whom nobody in their right mind would bother to defend-nobody that from her set anyway- and lunatic causes like Narmada Bachao Andolan, which need to be made sexy as any person who has seen Medha Patkar will testify. Then she makes ridiculous statements like, I secede from the Indian state that supports nuclear proliferation- I mean, what **do** you say to someone who tells you that, except smile brightly and say ``You go girl``.

Why is the Editor in Chief wasting precious chowk real estate (yeah that`s a joke) on a non-issue like Aru-baby rejecting a writers` award? . Everyone knows these awards mean diddly sqwat and matter even less. For Chrissakes they just gave Sania Mirza a Padmashri!

#155 by masadi

[Oppose them on every forum, put blocks in the way of their every move, reject all their appeasement tactics. Way to go Arundhati, you did the right thing.]

American imperialism should have nothing to do with Islam or any kind of spirituality - it should not be used to justify the validity/invalidity of any religion.

But it is always used to promote Islam.

Islam is always popular with people who have ANY kind of axe to grind. For example, Islam is the fastest growing religion among the discerning and perceptive African-American gentlement who inhabit the prison system in America.

There will always be evil in the world, just as there will always be idiots.

LOONY LEFT-WING ALERT !

Yet another pakistani aristocrat, Shri Tariq Ali, is in India, peddling his nonsensical theories and personal prejudices. Comrade Masadi, I would have expected you to travel with your fellow paki aristocrat! Where are you?

Here is a quote from this comfortably rich comrade:

[quote]
From a country which supported the Arab countries in 1956 when Pakistan supported the West, India now is a nation with a visionless leadership obsessed with money and markets and that no longer thinks neither of the stature of the country in the world nor the future of its people.
[ quote]

SUMMARY: india is obsessed with money and markets. How dare these coolies think of making money? Their job is to march around in processions, burn buses and support one arab dictatorship or the other. This is called being progressive.

You can read the rest of the delusional rant in the Hindu, india`s leading Marxist propaganda rag:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/27/stories/2006012704181100.htm

#161 now watch the loony-left-tunes come crawling out on a charge and call you names. This will be led by you know who - ``she who cannot be named`` (thanks QCP for this).

They only recognise the hyperbole of the right-wing. Rarely recognising their own.

Their motto- Do as you are told, not as we do

[quote]
``The Project for the New American Century seeks to perpetuate inequity and establish American hegemony at any price, even if it`s apocalyptic. The World Social Forum demands justice and survival. For these reasons, we must consider ourselves at war .``[end quote]
Arundhati Roy

If she did not do all this then how would she remain in the limelight. Look, even you have written an article with a headline with her name in it.

Being humble and accepting acclaim is not newsworthy. Being a contra is fasinating even if for all the wrong reasons

Arjun,

I beg your pardon? Can you explain how teaching has become the equivalent of a ``dole funded by taxpayers?``

Tread carefully on this one, because I am losing my patience with interactors like you.

Saminsha #150
Thanks!

nb #154
Do tell us about Vrinda Nabar`s iconoclastic history :)

thank you Farzana, Arjun, Sadna, HP, Missy Sammy, Queenie, and others for your input. It was enlightening to say the least. I was merely asking for the explication of the title of the book. Somehow, this has not been explained clearly by the author herself anywhere (and I have attended many of her talks seminars etc on this subject and she has evaded answering questions on this.

Thanks to all of you once again. Thanks to the sarcy turds who replied and spoilt the discussion (this includes Queenie and IM and up to a point Missy Sammy). I do not know what is going on between Missy and the other nics around here, but boy everytime she replies to QCP (queer chauvinistic pig - whose that for a variation of the nic) that guys goes OTT.

Back to the topic - Farzana, my query as an extension to the previous one is an obvious one (I guess that is why you deemed it necessary to respond). Much as I agree with the content of the article, I unable to understand the meaning of the title. Once again, I understand the dig vis-a-vis the AR book. Going by Sadna`s response (and using her explication as a basis here), the relationships, the causality etc are not clear. The usual nick & tuck and snipe & bite are missing.

Thanks for your time.

Oppose them on every forum, put blocks in the way of their every move, reject all their appeasement tactics. Way to go Arundhati, you did the right thing.

I doubt that given her own iconoclastic history, Vrinda Nabar ever imagined that Arundhati would think she(Roy) was making a stand by rejecting an award she (Nabar)had a hand in awarding.
Farzana, I agree with you that these are double standards,but I am surprised that you are surprised. Arundhati has a right to her double stanbdards, like everyone else.

#152 by Saminasha on January 25, 2006 4:45pm PT


ever gain the courage to id yourselves?


It takes greater courage to get off taxpayer dole and get the real job..like the rest of us..

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#150 by Saminasha on January 25, 2006 3:07pm PT


However,
questions have been raised about our universities` growing dependence
upon corporate dollars


Lehman college can set an example by rejecting the corporate $$...including tax $$ paid by corporations and people working for corporations..

Sadna,

FYI:

Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower
McMaster Campus Choice Conference 2006

Dear student, organization, or activist group

A quick glance at any university campus and one can see the
ever-increasing presence of large corporations (for instance the
Coca-Cola Exercise Physiology Lab at the University of Western Ontario).
These companies provide services on campus, fund academic and athletic
programs, and have chairs on the various governors` boards. However,
questions have been raised about our universities` growing dependence
upon corporate dollars and willingness to adopt corporate values. More
and more schools are signing exclusive contracts with multinationals
that are implicated in human, worker and environmental rights violations
around the globe, and limiting their student`s ability to choose on campus.

On Monday February 13th 2006, McMaster Campus Choice is holding the
``Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower`` conference 2006 aimed at addressing
the growing negative corporate climate in universities, most
specifically through an examination of the exclusivity contracts various
multinationals have secured with universities in the Canadian context
and beyond. The conference will address the problems that such a
monopoly on campus creates (in terms of a violation of democratic
principals both locally and globally) and explore various means of
resistance (by, for example, raising awareness of corporate malfeasance
and making stricter labour policies and standards for those companies
wishing to do business with our schools).

From this, we hope to create a sustainable inter-university consortium
by networking with students at other universities, as well as labour
unions, community activists, secondary school boards, and non-profit
organizations. We believe no corporation on campus should be exempt from
rules honouring the preservation of environment, or policies respecting
human and worker rights. We hope this conference will bring this issue
to the fore, as well as cultivate viable and ethical solutions.

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Kenneth Saltman, a visiting professor to
McMaster from De Paul University in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Saltman will
be teaching a graduate seminar on ``Global Corporate Schooling.`` Saltman
published a book titled ``Collateral Damage: Corporatizing Public
Schools—A Threat to Democracy,`` and has spoken alongside exiled
Colombian Sinaltrainal union members in the United States. Later in the
afternoon there will be a panel of speakers who will discuss the various
issues surrounding the presence of corporations in the university
environment, using Coca-Cola Ltd. and its exclusive contracts with many
universities as a case study.