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| Arundhati Roy
Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing. Bring to a boil. add oil. Then bomb. But the point is that, at the moment the choice is between breathing the black air in a city and not breathing at all if you are a woman in a village that oppresses you in ways an Indian village can. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to
shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the
dead.I could not riding out alone about my business, but smile out to God
in praises, in assurance of victory because God would, by things
that are not, bring to naught things that are.I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. I was my mother's guinea pig. She started her own school, and I was her first student. In light of activists' global boycotts of war profiteers, globalization begins to look evitable. We reverse imperialist's sanctions with the people's sanctions. May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.Refuse to wave the flag Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse to the dock. Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power. Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.-The only thing worth globalising now is dissent. The state will use every institution at its command, the army, the police, the bureaucracy, the courts to stiffle dissent. The story of the Narmada valley is nothing less than the story of modern India. Like the tiger in the Belgrade Zoo during the NaTO bombing, we've begun to eat our own limbs. The world's "freeest" country has the highest number in prison. There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. as far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. Those of us who belong to former colonies think of imperialism as rape. … Extending this horrible analogy, Richard Perle said recently, "Iraqis are freer today and we are safer. Relax and enjoy it." Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. and then of course there's the business of war. You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. |
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