From: Pat Corcoran <dshays76@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:12 AM
Subject: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Arundhati Roy: Becoming Internal Security Threats
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Vid at link
Arundhati Roy: Becoming Internal Security Threats
Novelist, activist, journalist,
internal security threat? Arundhati Roy joins us for a special
conversation about her journey into the forest in the heart of India to
talk to Maoist revolutionaries.
Roy talks with Laura about resistance and struggle, war and
colonialism, how you can't fire bullets at an ideology, and why we
should all become internal security threats.
http://www.grittv.org/2010/03/27/arundhati-roy-becoming-internal-security-threats-2/
Arundhati Roy: Becoming Internal Security Threats
Novelist, activist, journalist, internal security threat? Arundhati Roy joins us for a special conversation about her journey into the forest in the heart of India to talk to Maoist revolutionaries.
Roy talks with Laura about resistance and struggle, war and colonialism, how you can't fire bullets at an ideology, and why we should all become internal security threats.
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Palash Biswas
Pl Read:
http://nandigramunited-banga.blogspot.com/
Like your new show/setup just wish it was longer–will try to send one time payment next Mo(April) as my SSI just doesn't go as far as it used to..Keep up the great reporting Al
By Allan on March 27th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
One of the great things about Arundhati Roy is her ability to locate "hope" and to propose it as a real, tangable motor for the work that we are doing to move beyond Capitalism, War, and Imperialism. Thanks for a wonderful interview!
By Angelo Moreno on March 28th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
The "resistance fighters" being referred to in this interview are led by a group that calls itself the Communist Party of India (Maoist). This group (and its various Stalinist precursors) has killed more than 6000 people over the last 20 years, many of them rival leftists who don't share the CPI(M)'s Pol-Pot-esque vision for India's future.
Here is a link to another interview, with the leader of the CPI(M), a fellow who goes by the name "Comrade Ganapathy":
http://tinyurl.com/ybkwj9v
In the course of the interview the words "eliminate" and "annihilate" frequently come up. These are Indian Maoist euphemisms for their favorite way of dealing with political opponents on the left and anyone who works for the democratically elected government of India: murder.
By Apuleius Platonicus on March 28th, 2010 at 9:12 pm
God bless you Ms. Roy, you are the voice to the voiceless. There isn't a single book or topic or lecture which I haven't read or heard of your's.
Thanks for the upload
A Voiceless Kashmiri…
By shoaib rafiq on March 29th, 2010 at 6:09 am
democracy only works for 51% of those who vote.
By elkojohn on March 29th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
What is the alternative to Democracy ? More Democracy and certainly NOT a mao-ist inspired Soviet system !! We all know what happened to the Soviets and their satellites , no ?
By Amit on March 30th, 2010 at 12:06 am
What is note-worthy is that people, who apparently have never read history want to follow Mao's footsteps. The same Mao who wiped out 70 million of his country-men in purges, self induced famines and the cultural revolutions. If it weren't for Maoist policies, China would have had it's explosive growth 30 years before it actually did without any of the heart-wrenching suffering. In India of course, all it takes is one delusional author like Suzanna Arundhati Roy and the parrots echo the nonsense.
By Stewart on March 30th, 2010 at 12:08 pm