Old Fucking PunkOct 13, 2023
This is going to be trouble. https://truthout.org/articles/indian-government-backs-prosecution-of-author-arundhati-roy/
#India
#Fascism
#ArundatiRoy
Indian Government Backs Prosecution of Author Arundhati Roy

The space for dissent in India has dramatically shrunk under the BJP and Narendra Modi's authoritarian government.

Truthout
bs2Jun 20, 2023
> The government [of India] instructed YouTube and Twitter to delete all links and uploads. Those sterling defenders of free speech hurried to comply. Some of my Muslim friends were baffled. “Why does he want to ban it? The Gujarat massacre has always helped him. And we’re in an election year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/18/narendra-modi-hindu-nationalism-india-gautam-adani
#India #YouTube #Twitter #Censorship #GujaratMassacre #ArundatiRoy on #TheModiQuestion #BBCFilm and #InternationalCorruption
Modi’s model is at last revealed for what it is: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by big business

India’s prime minister and the billionaire Gautam Adani each benefited from the other’s rise – now their relationship is under scrutiny, says novelist Arundhati Roy

The Guardian
Recycle BookstoreNov 14, 2022
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon #nocountryforeightspotbutterflies #julianaguon #arundatiroy #recyclebookstore
bs2Apr 25, 2022
> .. Other kinds of dreams. Dreams in which failure is feasible. Honorable. Sometimes even worth striving for. Worlds in which recognition is not the only barometer of brilliance or human worth. There are plenty of warriors that I know and love, people far more valuable than myself, who go to war each day, knowing in advance that they will fail.
https://lannan.org/events/arundhati-roy-with-howard-zinn
https://lannan.org/images/events/arundhati-roy-020918-trans-conv.pdf
#ArundatiRoy on #failure and priorities, not a shallow #StatusSeeker
Arundhati Roy with Howard Zinn

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