Hari Kunzru

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It's deplorable that they will stoop to this. Media watchers must make the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India impose restrictions on these white-collar goons.

I can testify to the fact that only news reporters with uncontroversial views as hired at companies like Times Now because I myself was denied a job at a second interview when I questioned why the major news channels covered the same top stories, all had red, white and blue graphics, etc.

Far away from India, a journalist of Indian descent takes issue with Roy's political activities. Quite interesting but not ethical.

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Strange how Indian arguments about why Kashmir should not be free echo in numerous ways British colonial arguments against Indian independence during the anti-colonial movement. The amount of writing in western academia on whether the Indian state and/or "democracy" would survive after the British left is stupendous. The question of Kashmiri freedom, however, involves much more than the machinations of the Indian and Pakistani states.
I urge you to reconsider the question of whether India should be called a "terrorist nation". Firstly, the statement that India constitutes a "nation" itself is highly debatable, given the number of nationality movements that have arisen, and not in the recent past but since before 1947. Kashmir, as we know, is a case in point. But also, the question 'what constitutes a nation' itself can be applied to India, to put it crudely, given the lack of cultural, social homogeneity across the country. Perhaps the only really pervasive across-subcontinent social structure is caste, and I wonder whether you would like to build the "nation" around that. (doesn't matter, it already is so.)
But let's come to the other aspect of that term - terrorist. What do we say about an occupying force (and this is not only in Kashmir and states in the north-east, Operation Greenhunt is as much an occupation) which has/is systematically crushing all forms of dissent? And is it then docile?
Finally why not get emotional about the ways in which the Indian state is becoming more and more authoritarian, subjecting people to inhumane kinds of torture, grabbing land and destroying livelihoods? Is the "nation" a bunch of corporates? The question is really the kind of nation that one wants the "Indian nation" to be. I'm glad Arundhati has raised concerns over the dangerous direction in which we are progressing today. And also demonstrating that there are people, who individually or collectively, are willing to fight it.

Please leave Arundhati Roy alone, and let her speak her mind. Let the Indian people decide whether she makes sense, or speaks for them. Repression of Muslims is condoned by BJP, but repression of Arundhati will not be tolerated by decent Indians. We condem this provocative action in the strongest possible terms. Cease and desist, RSS!

we read your writing, and hear you speaking out for justice and rightness ... really sad to hear that this kind of stuff is happening, shows what misguided patriotism can be

Arundati, do you know why cant we let Kashmir be free...Because India is not a terrorist nation and Pakistan's ISI abates terrorism. In the wake of letting Kashmir be independent we will have to designate twice the number of army personnels for its protection from Pakistan.

Mind you, if Pakistan once takes over Kashmir, Delhi, Jaipur, Chennai, Hyderabad will not be far for that Nation.

I don't know why such an educated lady like you wouldnt think about all this and be emotional about Kashmir, we (India)is a docile nation and I am proud of the fact that we never in our history initiated any war but its our duty to protect the people of our nation and our Motherland.

Hope I make sense to you...

This attack is condemnable. We may disagree with anybody's comments and opinions. But we have to respect their right to express their opinion.

You are one of my idols, just to let you know, we are with you,and above all the truth is on your side. Love and respect.

This fraud is trying to become a martyr now...
Think this...the only photograph of the event in the media is a photograph of a broken flower pot that could have happened by someone tripping over it...i have a couple of flower pots in my house that are broken as well...
This woman is media savvy and and mainstream media loves to bash up nationalist forces...i am sure one of the two below would have happened:
a) Breaking News over and over again showing the attack on national TV all day long with We the People, Big Fight, India Answers blah blah...taking all the pleasure in beating up everyone from BJPMM to Hindus in general with some Ram and Krishna thrown in...
b) This woman would definitely have engineered better pictures to her own martyrdom

U need to be booked for sedition, you don't even deserve 1 minute of attention from people of India leave aside a mob attack.

It seems media n criminal hooligan nexus can go to any extent in withering the Democratic Values....If there is limit to free speech thn thr should also be restriction on this criminals who r loose free to fix the individuals who dares to speak truth bluntly and democratically....

Vijay Kumar

email vj_kumar@hotmail.com
Delhi

I challenge you, to a debate, on kashmir, or even the naxals. anywhere, anytime. after that, you must promise, never to show your face in public, or to live in any city, in the world, with a population of more than 1000 (you can live in a village, if you please).