Arundhati Roy - Ghoul of Mean Things

This morning I received a message from Baskar, asking me to check A Roy's article in Guardian. I was wondering where was she? After all Mumbai terror gives her ample scope to nurture her pet topic. Usually she surfaces within a week in one of our leading magazines. However it took more than two weeks and a foreign daily to air her views. Quite understandable that none of our weeklies can risk an article of this kind, that too from a notorious person, given the current mood and climate.

I read it half way and dumped it. Whether you agree with the content or not, at least A Roy used to have a style and flow that keeps your interest alive in her writings. But this time nothing retained in my interest in her article. The article was hardly cohesive and far from a spontaneous response. She has just gobbled up all her pet hate topics like Modi, VHP, RSS, L K Advani, Hindu terrorism, Kashmir injustice, Islam's anger, Narmada dam, Singur,... etc and used them here and there along with Mumbai terror to make people see her point. What is her point? India deserve it. Yes, we deserve a writer and a pseudo-socialist like Arundhati Roy.

I think she was compelled to write as the Mumbai terror presented her a grand opportunity to put forth her vicious and venomous thoughts across to her readers and haters. Indian weeklies cold feet proved all the more good for her that now she has international audience via Guardian.

Every person has a right to air their views on the Mumbai terror and they need not agree with the popular opinion. However what the terrorists did to victims and at large to the psyche of Indian public is terribly condemnable. There can't be two opinions on that unless one is a terrorist. I did not come across a single sentence of condemnation of terror attacks and the perpetrators, by this over rated inetllectual (Please correct me if you find her condemning these acts in the article or if she had done it elsewhere).

What do you make of such people who use such an incident only to feed their ego and cast their aspersions on all and sundry. Baskar suggested that she is the Ghoul of mean things. She is a Ghoul (feeding on victims) of mean things (petty ego, mean mind and verbal diarrhoea).

Please read her article and post your views. Unfortunately there was no comments section under her article in Guardian. May be fortunately for Arundhati Roy. Arundhati Roy's article in Guardian