Arundhati Roy and Maoists of Chattisgarh
Arundhati Roy in Outlook Magazine: I was reading the entire article very carefully. The jarring note was Arundhati's prejudice exposed in saying" The Maoists are not the only ones who seek to depose the Indian State. It’s already been deposed several times by Hindu fundamentalism and economic totalitarianism." She writes well and she has the gift of communication. But she also seems to suffer from some strange hallucinations of antipathy towards nations' own ancient cultural history. natural being brainwashed by western education and conditioned to believe that all old and Indian was fundamentalist. Fact is her statement indicates deep ignorance and also arrogance of her own greatness to say what she likes. Very un- journalistic , considering that she set out to to find out the truth. Human history shows there has always been clash of civilisations and one group exploiting another. There has never been a time when full ideal free living without getting exploited by s...