Mihir Srivastava
…is that the conclusions they jump to have political implications for which they take no responsibility
The Indian Penal Code’s provisions on sedition apply to Arundhati Roy no more than they do to those who perpetuate bad governance.
As a writer-activist, Arundhati Roy has written about issues that mainstream media has largely shied away from. She has been targeted for her fiercely independent views on Kashmir, Maoists, the issue of displacement, and the nexus between politicians and corporates. In an interview with Open’s Rahul Pandita, Roy speaks her mind on the Radia tapes, calling it just “the top end of the problem”.
She is the creation of the very system she wants to dismantle, she is the anomaly that completes the system. Like Neo in The Matrix
A domestic help in Delhi, 35-year-old Halder stands a class apart from most Indian bestselling writers