tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215028655438309441.post3424721236862938368..comments2023-12-26T06:09:01.339+05:30Comments on Musings: Intellectual TerrorismManoje Nathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14700691084169082963noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215028655438309441.post-85129221068306557082010-01-15T23:09:44.960+05:302010-01-15T23:09:44.960+05:3026/11 has brought into focus the weakness of the I...26/11 has brought into focus the weakness of the Indian State.... the citizenry fighting against itself, Mumbai had been unsafe for Biharis, only a short while earlier....<br />the arrival of the trigger happy aliens, united the Indian Nation, but for how long...<br />unless we find a way of not dividing the society any further, we may really be heading towards a "individual Sovereignty", in near future....<br />26/11 calls for national introspection.. why is it that we cannot tolerate a fellow citizen, and fight we must, unless external aggression takes place...?<br />everybody gets his own pieces of gold, from his pen.... whether in the form of salary or remuneration... and the one who declares the source of money, is the one open to public examination....<br />let us salute the martyrs of Mumbai by taking a pledge to respect a fellow citizen, irrespective of his religion, caste, region, mother-tongue, gender and political affiliation....<br />we have to build a stronger India, and we didn't have a repeat of 26/11, because it united us so much that the friendly neighbours found it counter-productive, let's say...<br />it is not a time to criticize or condemn... it is the time to unite....<br />in a bond of "fellow-citizenship"ajoyipsbhr85https://www.blogger.com/profile/16508229655128510675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215028655438309441.post-87918091905655531882009-03-01T22:06:00.000+05:302009-03-01T22:06:00.000+05:30well reasoned out sir,i have read almost all of Ar...well reasoned out sir,<BR/><BR/>i have read almost all of Arundhati Roy's writing (books, essays, articles, interviews...) and honestly tried to understand and agree with her, for her command over the language is extremely appealing. but i have been unseccuessful.<BR/>the problem, i find, with Ms Roy's writing is that she never provides alternatives to the current way things work. it also smacks of a naivety that comes with not having bothered to read enough about how things came to be the way they are. her research is almost always good, her assessment of the situations she writes about are fair. but her 'comments' and her reasoning are hardly worthy of her intellect. she seems to be a poor student of history. and she has no agenda but the proclamation of an ideology so convoluted and complex that none can follow it 'honestly' save herself, for it consists of her whims and fancies.Karan Makhijahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09555530285117454559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215028655438309441.post-87887599374390344492009-01-08T12:23:00.000+05:302009-01-08T12:23:00.000+05:30Well to me...with all due respect to Ms.Roy,she mu...Well to me...with all due respect to Ms.Roy,she must have lost the plot.<BR/><BR/>1)To begin with let me remind...no state is perfect and democracy hasn't ever fully unfurled as the best form of governance..so the problems that she identified in India is not new and was prevalent even in da most advanced industrialised countries such as the issue of Australia's handling of aboriginies,U.S. attitude to the native Indians to name a few.So it is quite an unimaginable expectation for Ms.Roy to believe that India will be a perfect state and will cater to only well beings of all its citizens keeping in hindsight the people we elect to run the government.<BR/><BR/>2) This is true that people of India are not exactly content with the governance but that does not mean you go trigger-happy against the government,again understanding the fact that the latter will unleash its dogs of war and the casualties of war will finally leave a toll on da citizens only..such as oppression by the armed forces,coercion,influence and pressure by the opposite side and so on and so forth.<BR/><BR/>3)Thirdly if she really wants to extend her help to avoid such mishaps and bring forth the voice of some obscure terror personality like Hafeez Syed..then she should invite him to present himself forward and give his demands and opinions and anything else rather than hiding in some other inaccessible haven and giving long speeches on the camera and cowardly sending young boys to India to create mayhem...which incidentally dents its own legible or illegible demands to such an extent..that the actual problem( which could have readily solved) loses its sheen.<BR/>And to Ms.Roy's claims that all people are unhappy..then i wonder how come the recent state election in J&K has one of the most highest number of turnout of voters in recent times.This is something which she might be pondering about now.<BR/><BR/>4)Finally....the dastardly attack on Mumbai on 26/11/2008 should have never been so publicised as there is a general feeling that publicity stunts are just for accumulation of moolah and not really for mourning or share the pains of those people who have suffered such an atrocious attack.If according to Ms.Roy even this incident is due to the oppression of the government over people...then why the citizens of sum other country are so enthusiased to organise such a cowardly attack on India? Is she trying to mean that even we should also follow such acts if our countrymen face such ordeals in any other countries and send in such young men to create chaos in those respective countries.Definitely the comments made by Ms.Roy,who is an author of international repute, at this moment is uncalled for and is pretty naive...and not only she should stop calling herself an Indian anymore,she is not even worth of calling herself a human being.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08642832955908004019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215028655438309441.post-55221964185610318262009-01-08T12:19:00.000+05:302009-01-08T12:19:00.000+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08642832955908004019noreply@blogger.com