Mr Koul a Kashmiri yes. Isn't Arundhati Roy a horrible person?

@@tejmachhar4903 what made you say this? Curious... I find her brave with rational intellectual skills

@@aniljaiswal2090 You must be from the breaking India gang. What is wrong with you, your name is Anil Jaiswal. Kashmir is an integral part of India and times ahead there is Akhand Bharat having a saffron flag. Do you have any questions

You wrote it down as if it were the holy writ !!!!!!!!!

what a nice way to put it for all the stupid administration we select for governance and an even pathetic customs we respect and so oblige in the name of religion.

Freedom to offend doesn't come under freedom of speech

@@captain4595 you offended me by saying that and yet you are okay with pursuing your freedom of speech. Why cant anyone else do that ?

@@captain4595 that’s the most baffling contradiction I’ve ever seen. By definition the freedom to speak is the freedom to have your opinions changed, to hear what you don’t want to hear. But sure, fine, let’s make a rule that we no longer may offend. Number one; define hate (impossible). Second, those rules of what’s regarded offensive are great for you until your opposing party takes over government and then your argument will be used against you. They’ll play your game and best believe what you class as acceptable and non offensive will offend them very much. Then you become the one silenced and it’s your own doing. Go live in North Korea I’d you like that idea. Not a good one I hope you’ll find. We’re not Stalin or hitler so stop acting like that’s the kind of order you’d want imposed.

@@fishfingers8441 I will not debate much but clearly there's a limit to FOE.Those include,not giving slangs on Mother and sister,never spread misinformation, don't speak about obscene things in front of children, never disrespect teachers,elders,never provoke anyone intentionally.You can't follow them,you don't deserve Freedom of speech.

@@captain4595 that’s called oppression my friend, not to mention that everything you listed other than misinformation for advertising are absolutely legal and allowed. You seem to need to do some reading.

She was talking about incest.

@@apieceoflife2732 irony is even in that case muslims are most into incest & his comment still makes sense. They marry nephews. Not just cousins but even sisters aren't spared

Rushdie is wife beater so he definately crossed the line lost all the respect

@@krishnaghop977 where is the source of your claim

@@apieceoflife2732 she was not talking about incest.She was talking about being critical of the govt n scared of being targeted.lts her propaganda eversince.

Abrahamics can take enlightenment from Rushdie. Hindus don't need enlightenment from abrahamics. We're enlightened since ages... Only we were extremely soft & magnanimous with our enemies till now..

@@reecosmicatomsb8576 The one who loves all intensely begins perceiving in all living beings, a part of himself. And he who conceiving the self as a part of the universal soul does not look down on anyone. He becomes a lover of all. He becomes a lover of all, a part and parcel of the Universal Joy.He flows with the stream of happiness, and is enriched by each soul. - the Yajur Veda

@@veiledrebecca4659 Hindus know all these things. Don't use abrahamic tricks to fool Hindus. Those days are gone.. History is full of evidence of how you'll have cheated the good hearted Hindus... It's time for adharmic forces to be vanquished. Even our Lords Sri Rama & Sri Krishna use the appropriate ways to destroy adharma... This confrontation is going to happen sooner or later. Today no Hindu or no dharmic human being believes in the lies, manipulation, deceit of the abrahamics.

@@reecosmicatomsb8576 That kind of arrogance is one reason why India is still a developing country.

@@randolphpinkle4482 as if America , Europeans, British etc etc are humble. Their history is full of plunder & genocide...

You need to listen to more people.

Totally disagree! I come from the same town that she grew up in, I can see she is typical of many people of my neighbourhood that love to dwell on,y on the negative. India especially Kerala where she & I are from have progressed enormously & I don’t mean state wealth since independence. I mean the lives of people! The children of domestic workers & labourers no longer are bound by their past. Free education to uneducated parents on nutrition, importance of educating children, social welfare for underprivileged are just some of the few policies in Kerala that has enabled someone like me from a low caste, decedent of 7 generations of illiterate labourers become educated & work abroad leading a multinational company. I am by no means the exception! A vast majority of Indians from Kerala live lifes very different to their parents. Yes Kerala is only a small part of India but this pattern of progress is not limited to Kerala & Arundhati Roy who lives in Kerala & is I must add vastly protected from many of the tragedies unfortunately happening in certain northern parts of India, seem not to have nothing positive to say, A bleak future for India is what she predicts! Yes India has problems but what Arundhati Roy simply ignores is that amidst all of the problems is the resilience of our people, the progress we have made & are still making in the lives of the general public. Yes we have big problems that are yet to be resolved,we have political parties that are at each other s throats & political agendas that sometimes create havoc in our beautiful country but India & Indians are not limited to simply that! We have overcome problems & only got stronger- why has Arundhati Roy got nothing positive to say,she reminds me of a sly Kerala politician who complains & whines but has no positive solution to offer!

@@user-cz7sb1ow5d Well said about the opportunistic negativism of these "intellectuals"; hope India never falls to this woke culture

I agree . Arundhati is special. I : INTELLECTUAL N: NATIONALISTIC D: DRAVIDIANS I: INDEPENDENT A: ARYANS

100 percent. She seems to be the sole soul of this conversation because she cares and the rest are just trying to superficially touch and smooth out effects of her depth

Alas! Felt Same.

They started the discussion staying india is all about poverty and illiteracy.. i guess this interview took place in 1997. So you believe that was india in1997 and the healthy discussion was due to fact that all were of the same view.. btw i hate arnab.. but to portray a country so negatively is so cruel

Actually Leftist are really careful and great speakers but cant say the same about their characters. They will never say whats going on in their minds. They'll only speak what seems cool or appreciated. For example this woman talks many ideas of India but still supports many who want to break from it.

I hope you know same india was the first country to ban his book.

You didnt read his book for sure.... Rushdi can write only shit, .....

We have same name

@@adityashankar5723 What are you 12?

It all originates when political leaders who are chosen to decide and lead the country become victims of self idealism and vote bank politics. Half of the issues which are prevalent in today's times could have easily been settled yet no one dared to touch them. Political correctness and pseudo secularism has its ways and it has been detrimental to India.

Because you're idiot

>Suzzana Arundhati Roy >Intellect Pick one.

@@amulyamishra5745, You must be an idiotic modi bhakt .

@@vishaldora8803 I don't know..Modi Bhakts like to call me a leftist.

@@amulyamishra5745 then what do you call roy

It's pretty clear what she intended even back then. The hatred for BJP is deep rooted in her mind and I don't think she can ever let it go. And, yes the nehruvian secularism always makes things look politically correct yet practically awful.

@@RoshanKumar-dw7zh Alternatively, the blind servitude for BJP is so deep rooted in your mind that any criticism of a political ideology appears "hatred" to you, as if it's personal. BJP is essentially a far-right Hindutva extremist party for which development and welfare is secondary and majoritarian, communal politics is primary. You cannot comprehend that, you simply lack the bandwidth.

@@hussainoid Amidst all the fancy vocabulary what clearly can be seen is that the Left, state parties and the Congress all join hands to uproot this Hindu nationalist party called BJP. In times like these when anything and everything can work just to remove bjp from power, I would have liked to see the leftist liberals show some spine. But, alas it's Kaliyuga... We can talk about Ayodhya time and again but no one cares about Shah Bano !

@@hussainoid there is no such thing as hindutva extremist and she supported muslim terrorist.

@@hussainoid seriously hindutva is no where when it comes to islamic extremism , have it been at parity of islam you guys would be not allowed to utter a single just like what happened with salman rushdie 2022.

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wow...excellent analysis.. this is the first thing which struck my mind. salman was a bit of a dreamer maybe because of his distance from inida but arundhati was an realist intellectual the tribalism blew my mind...how accurate.

Oh shut up. The internet was better before 'underprivileged' people gained access to it.

So why are her Naxals friends holding back that Tribalism in parts of Chattisgarh/ Orrisa/Maharashtra. Why not help in improving their lot?? What have the leftist thugs achieved in West Bengal/Kerala?

she herself steals land of tribals and builds her home over it

I would they're more of immorality critiques, religion just does plays a huge part in that

@@remo6130 no. Arundhati Roy is just a hate-mongering bigot.

@@KilgoreTrout-vo7uy I think you are a Modi fan

@@paulatreides6218 she is a bigot.perhaps modi and india made her that way.

@@bprithiraj8611 She was always this way.

Never

We all carry the sewed of positivity, I think it's about how we express that, Rushdie expression is famous because it impress the liberal mind. Roy do it the other way round.

I call bullshit. I have been following her for about a decade now and all her talk for the betterment of Indians is just thinly veiled contempt for India.

@@AS-lo6xo idk who you are or how much you read but if there is one book that you must read to understand the current scenario, it is Arun Shourie's Eminent Historians.

@@AS-lo6xo false equivalence. Idk whether to think of you as insincere or merely intellectually brittle and thus closed off to worldviews that would challenge your own. The work by Shourie is amazingly well researched and the citations are on point. Judge it on its own merits and not based on your preconceived notions as to supposed tyrants and their associates. I could recommend other scholarly works on Indian history but I recommend Shourie because it's a good starting point wherein he provides a comparative analysis of various schools of historiography in India, whilst relying on primary sources. Other historians that you may refer to are Jadunath Sarkar, RC Majumdar, Meenakshi Jain, Seetaraam Goel. Read these works alongside the works by Marxist historians such as RS Sharma, Bipan Chandra, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib for a fair assessment of the subject and decide for yourself. If, however, you have your ideological blinkers, I am afraid no amount of scholarship can help you see the whole picture.

Exactly

No she's giving a colonial slave narrative to India.

@@gustofzephyr947 opinion may differ on this, but your comment seems entirely irrelevant and out of the box.

@@ankurkaushik7190 It is relevant because in order for a nation to prosper it needs to have a national narrative based on historical facts, not stereotypes and broad generalisations with colonial biases, the kind that Roy presents here.

@@ankurkaushik7190 Just because you disagree with someone doesn't mean their views are irrelevant. Next time try rebutting their views rather than just dismissing them.

The only person who makes sense here is Rushdie. Arundati is all about fearmongering, Victimhood and showing a whole population in Bad light. Who are already struggling with these issues.

She is a Marxist !

Rushdie and Roy had different opinions and comments despite the same situations. It's up to you what you want to do and believe in !

Nonsense 🤣

Roy will be irrelevant soon as the gallery she appeals to, will disappear soon

she takes drugs

Do you agree with her denial of bangladesh genocide??

she is very beautiful

Religion instills hatred in people. Salman "insulted" Islam somehow with his writing. Look at the Hindutva movement led by fascist Modi and its treatment of Muslims. Christian fascists in the US are taking away women's rights. Jewish fascists in Israel are commiting apartheid against Palestinians. When one believes in an imaginary being, a god, then one is susceptible to fascism, and is prone to committing hateful acts.

It's a certain community that hates him for speaking the truth & issues fatwas. Now he can never set his foot in India. We don't need to be ashamed as Indians as a whole

@@chaitanyavelamala7268 That is true. It's just the Islamo-fascists in India that are shameful, just as Modi's Hindu-fascists are in India, and Trump's Christo-fascists are in the US. Religion coupled with the right wing leads to bad outcomes.

@@HeathWatts what is hindu fascists asshole?

@@debabratadatta3696 Modi supporters are fascists.

But you're NOT.

sam7748 And what made u think, that you are?

Because I'm white and not brown.

sam7748 North Koreans , Russians, and Mexicans are also whites.

nope...and bye

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@@harshvardhanrollno-4343 Do Bhakts have anything meaningful to say instead of trolling?

yes, it is very beautifully written

@@apieceoflife2732 not so bad to laugh at terrori$ts tho

@@apieceoflife2732 Name calling people based on an emoji? Only some third grade kid would read Arundhati' book. Nobody in his/her sane mind would take her opinion on its face value, they lack substance and worth nothing. But some do take that seriously and turn up horrible. Like, just look at the way you're reacting in particular and some people in general, who rely on rhetoric than facts.

Yes though this video is twenty years old.

I would have really lIked if you would commented on her prolific writing and empathetic way of speaking than conferring her with the compliment of ‘beauty’. I know you could have meant beauty as a neutral term but it certainly isn’t perceived as one.

@@ananyamalhotra9032 And where does the fault lie? Within the perceiver, if you ask me

but she was a pain to listen to with so much fillers.

Who are these able administrators?

Arundhati is brainwashed, she hates herself and it shows

It's due to policies inacted by communists and leftists in India that kept india poor , she still wants india to remain poor and fragile just so she can feel better about herself

Indians bloody shine because this far we have burnt our ass left and right. Not because of some Modi who is just 10 years old in power. India progressed but also remained backward partly due to leftist ideas creeping into the centre for a considerable time.

Just the way people should understand that writers will write what they feel, similarly writers should understand that people will react how they feel.

That happens when one lacks perspectives

"Positive"?? It doesn't gel well

If AR and SR have nonsense to say....why is that only they can say it ? If you think we are speaking nonsense, live with it. FOS works both ways, that's what you libtards always forget

Arundhati is a wolf in 🐑 clothing. She deserves it.

hope he goes further ahead to graveyard soon

a sea filled with shit

Read GOD OF SMALL THINGS

@@naura9952 Thank you for the heads-up on Arundhati's book.

Problem is akhand bharat can be achieved only through love..........nothing except love......and nowadays people demanding akhand bharat are mostly hateful hindu nationalists..... they're as confused today as they were during partition with they want land but no muslims.....or to change them....again to change , you need love

​@@nikhildeshmukh6221They are neither hateful nor confused but rightfully concerned.

Abhinav Vij even more true for the US

Not if you're not a simp

English coversation hai, kuch English me bol deta hu, cool lagunga - Rahul "bose D Ka"

roy his a wholesale traitor that called separatists ghandis with guns while shiting on ghandi in western media its obvious she hates India and hindus fuck her and fuck you

Arundhati as usual too desperate to establish her reputation of an Indian liberal and intellectual!

@@mohitpr5297 because of Indian jehadis feel fucked when they see salman

He doesn't live here

@@mohitpr5297 have you forgotten the barrage of fatwas issued against him in India?

@@mohitpr5297 yeah that shows peacefullness of muslims but arundhati roy is still living in india and spreading venomous hatred about hinduism and indians

And the om emojis were somehow imperative to your comment?

@@nad1ax2 he is giving his salutations to him

They predicted it.

It intensified.

We failed in complete population exchange after religious partition in 1947. Hate and abrahamics are synonymous.

Just tell me you have disdain for left activism. Having read both their works, Arundhati is arguably a better writer even though I’m not into her political disposition myself

@@nad1ax2 left activism that denies bangladesh genocide??

Of course arundhuti is just your regular leftist woke but with brain, always with traditional catchy talking points with no depth. On the other hand, salman i think has restrained himself from going deep on issues as he finds it useless in talk shows like this.

@@nad1ax2 lol salman is more critically aclaimed, awarded the best of the all the booker prize winners from 1961-2007, which includes arundhuti. Only people who can't understand magical realism will say this.

Salman is a better writer than her. Saying anything else is just plain bs.

Rushdi had similar vibes tht any outsider has about India, a charm. Roy grew up inside, in a tiny village, a single mother, outsider f her community, fighting a battle to fit into the world. So different perspective.

​@@sumanchowdhury6162roy is fucked up stupid

And who ended up being more realistic?😂

For one thing, she is the one who stayed back , embraced the culture and still fights for the ppl as an activist..even now. On the contrary Rushdie, and no hard feelings for him, is seeing from an hour glass view of an outsider. Long story short see India now🙏

@@Nobo_On_The_Rocks well said

Indians in general do make things of their colonizers as their very own anyway!

@@manteshsharma9351 what does that mean...colonizer make people do everything for them... Understand history and politics in the right sense

@@sivalikanand2718 Africa is in the process of decolonisation. East Asia already did that. In India the very proposal of decolonisation is somehow "right wing", "Hindutava agenda", "Fascist agenda".

@@manteshsharma9351 These are are just the ideas of the ruling party...There are other parties which have other ideas...but the govt is in power by playing dirty politics and people are ignorant...but it doesnt mean that "Indians in general " are accepting the Bristish ideas....People are poor and ignorant.... It's not even their fault

@@sivalikanand2718 you just proved my point 🙂 We have a town named after Dalhousie. If anyone dares speaking against that, he/she already is put into some bracket. We all know what Dalhousie's legacy is for "Bharat". We have places named after Bakhtiyar (burnt India's most precious library), Ghazani (attacked, rasacked our most important place of power, worship and treasure), Iskander Butkishan (destroyed a whole legacy of India and indian'ness in Kashmir). Acknowledging this and systematically removing them from our imprints is decolonisation (like it happens in all other places. Bringing statues of Columbus in West is liberating and bringing Ghazani/Ghouri/ Khilji in India is fascism). Do you see this happening without being labelled as "saffron agenda"? If not, then keep beating the bush, it won't matter anything.

The world as whole has gotten better in many ways and that includes the subcontinent

Can Bot dying rivers, stagnant air, explosive population waiting to take over china, rising unemployment..... U see a better side???

I agree with you on that the water in all the rivers will be replaced with sewage and they will all be stinky and foamy like Yamuna is today. People are good at making more people and the South Asia already has a much bigger population than east Asia which includes the people's republic of China. Unemployment will get much worse as automation increases did you see that add for ford's new assembly line it was mostly footage of robotic arms welding shit and eventually there will be no jobs for people driving those cars. Still as a whole the world has gotten better we can communicate in a more efficient way with the largest, ever expanding international network AKA the internet. Phones have gotten so much better people are much more capable of entertaining themselves because there are so many more movies and they look much better. We can communicate about the rivers that were and the tiny island nations drowning because of the rising sea levels of the polluted and warmer oceans. We are ruining the world but we are more aware of all the ways to hinder our progress in the wrong direction. Our ancestors are responsible for the world the way it is today but we have the resources to reroute our courses. The average life expectancy has increased, infant mortality rates have decreased and contraception is much more readily available and it is encouraged instead of being frowned upon. I know the first two won't help us with the population but we would still count it as a plus.

Pretty genuine & accurate perception towards India's distinct character. 👌

True!!!

Why, pray tell? Also, go read Eminent Historians by Arun Shourie. Might help relieve you of some delusions.

Welcomeeeee to 2020

We have arnab goswami now

@@henridobbs2423 lmao now after 1 month 2023

@Disappointed Idealist what gave it away? :P

Bangali?

@@samadritac1028 Han

@@nadlax5920 that’s why people are leaving at an unprecedented rate

Do you feel like an outsider living there? @Varsha

A jihadist will of course support another jihadist. It is in your blood

thats why he ran away and got asylum...cool

@@ambhat3953 he was smart that's why.

@@thelibarandu3920 the reference is with being fearless....and ofcourse all crooked ppl are smart. I know that

@@ambhat3953 Yes that even Applies to your prophet.

@@thelibarandu3920 donno which prophet you talking.... prophets are only for desert cult people like the one salman Rushdie and a. roy is born in

commie traitor spotted

Right !!!

QUIZ TIME : A CULT WHERE PEOPLE FOLLOW A 9 YEAR OLD CHILD RAPIST .....

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Better than the vision of arundihati who denied bangladesh genocide.

@@itr8247 She admitted it was a stupid/thoughtless thing to say. An excerpt from from her statement: My views on what the Government of Pakistan is doing in Balochistan and the genocide that the Pakistan Army committed in Bangladesh have never been ambiguous and have always been a part of my writing. Here, in order to keep it short, are two small examples. In my novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, published in 2017, one of the main characters, an Indian Intelligence officer, Biplab Dasgupta aka Garson Hobart, who has served in Kashmir, says: “It’s true we did-we do- some terrible things in Kashmir, but… I mean what the Pakistan Army did in East Pakistan-now that was a clear case of genocide. Open and shut. When the Indian Army liberated Bangladesh, the good old Kashmiris called it-still call it-the ‘Fall of Dhaka.’ They aren’t very good at other peoples’ pain. But then, who is? The Baloch, who are being buggered by Pakistan, don’t care about Kashmiris. The Bangladeshis who we liberated are hunting down Hindus. The good old communists call Stalin’s Gulag a ‘necessary part of revolution’. The Americans are currently lecturing the Vietnamese about human rights. What we have on our hands is a species problem. None of us is exempt.” In an essay called Walking with the Comrades published in 2010 and republished in June 2019, I wrote: When Charu Mazumdar famously said, “China’s Chairman is our Chairman and China’s Path is Our Path,” he was prepared to extend it to the point where the Naxalites remained silent while General Yahya Khan committed genocide in East Pakistan (Bangladesh), because at the time, China was an ally of Pakistan. There was silence too, over the Khmer Rouge and its killing fields in Cambodia. There was silence over the egregious excesses of the Chinese and Russian revolutions. Silence over Tibet. Given my views on what is happening in Kashmir now, it is not surprising that Hindu Nationalists are rushing to generate outrage over this exciting new/old canard they have dug up about my supposed denial of the genocide in Bangladesh and the deeds of the Pakistan Army in Pakistan.

Absolutely true

Active fascism is worse than just passive genocide denial

I think u cried after abrogation of article 370 bcoz that bitch said Kashmir is not part of India, she said one should be pm once but modi showed her this 🖕in 2019 and will again in 2024 , this majoritsrianism is far better than genocides in democratic nation, so fuck off and disperse to another so called democratic country, mind u no muslim country has succeeded in democracy

of course....one should aknowledge it...the way she talks..very sexy.

I would have really lIked if you would commented on her prolific writing and empathetic way of speaking than conferring her with the compliment of ‘beauty’. I know you could have meant beauty as a neutral term but it certainly isn’t perceived as one.

@@ananyamalhotra9032 If thats how you chose to interpret what I wrote, thats on you.

@@ananyamalhotra9032 Acknowledging the striking beauty of a brown women is a revolutionary act especially when one considers the fact that pink women are upheld as the gold standard.

@abc def the prime reason why we are in this hole and there isn't any semblance of any effective opposition in sight

ARR's Vande Mataram is among his least interesting songs. I suppose people liked it only because it's about the motherland.

Udayan Mitra...you are 100% right.....she is a leftist-facist-communist pig....she know NOT how to take pride in being an INDIAN... simple reason is that,her knowledge is so narrowly restricted, that she can come up with dirty-sided-novels-of-impure-fiction...does not care to study INDOLOGY.....

suryanarayana begur kandaaravozhi magane

You're a right-wing loony.

Arundhati Roy please stop taking Drungs....then u can see the relity

Yes...she is pleasant to look at. However, she does have some deep psychological issues going back to her childhood that make her what she is - an Urban Naxalite who thinks corruption is good , govt is evil, progress is evil, poverty is beautiful etc etc.