Sunday, September 13, 2009

susan Arundhati Roy is annoyed by james astill

sep 13th, 2009

james "2000 muslims" astill is back in action. it is so obvious that the guy is a nasty piece of work. i heard an interview by him on economist podcasts where he is talking with great reverence to this pathan colonel in the pak army in the tribal areas. he is practically drooling over the guy (we know where james' proclivities lie and it appears he shares the fascination some white women have with virile pathans and the pleasures of the rear), and then he does something typical of these unscrupulous journalists do: he puts words in the pak guys' mouth: like "aren't there foreign -- esp indian -- influences with the taliban?", and the pak guy says, "yes, we have indian currency and indian weapons". and so, astill says triumphantly in the conclusion: "there are foreign influences". talk of leading the witness!

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From: Sagar
Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Subject: Arundhati Roy is annoyed!
To:

Rajeev,

Please see this review of Roy by The Economist and this response by Roy herself. Boy, she is annoyed!

Good comedy.

Sagar

4 comments:

sands said...

http://www.ptinews.com/news/278636_Ramesh-joins-row-over-Jinnah-drawing-on-Hindu-mythology

Look at what congress leader is aying about Lord shiva he is equating Shiva with "jinnah"

As they say this can happpen only in india people can say thus and get away

Anonymous said...

She says
"As a writer, a fiction writer, I have often wondered whether the attempt to always be precise, to try and get it all factually right somehow reduces the epic scale of what is really going on."

She is cribbing that accuracy, precision and sticking to facts and other such journalistic ethics /standards are reducing the productivity of her communist, anti-national and anti-hindu hate-propaganda. She is so blatantly and shamelessly admitting that she is not happy with facts.

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Also read Barbarindian's post on this topic here:
http://barbarindians.blogspot.com/2009/09/left-vs-left.html

Anonymous said...

You revealed your gmail id in the post as rajeev.srinivasan@gmail.com. Intentional OR Oversight?

Unknown said...

I opened the links and read both the review and Arundhati's tantrum (for not being given unqualified praise). Arundhati says she has travelled to various African countries. On what passport? Hadn't she publicly renounced her Indian citizenship? This country was'nt good enough for it seems.