'May Bush meet Saddam's fate': Arundhati Roy

[Bhaisahab]

"If Saddam Hussein deserves to be humiliated and have his fillings counted and his hair checked for lice on primetime TV, then so does George Bush," Roy told about 100 people at a leftist convention on the sidelines of the World Social Forum.

"To applaud the US army's capture of Saddam Hussein and therefore justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disembowelling the Boston Strangler," Roy said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow/430573.cms

roy is one of the few people from this country that i'm proud of. have you heard her "instant mix imperial democracy" lecture? you should, because it's awesome.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0518-01.htm

[wtmusic]

1. One could argue her novel 'The God of Small Things'

is a direct reference to Bush's physique :D

[corporatewhore]

2. I love what she had to say

"To applaud the US army's capture of Saddam Hussein and therefore justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disembowelling the Boston Strangler," Arundhati Roy

[burrowowl]

3. I love Roy

She is from India.

[gristy]

4. Roy's "instant mix imperial democracy" lecture

I heard that speech last year on Democracy Now a day or two after she gave it. An incredible speech.

[corporatewhore]

5. I loved the algebra of infinite injustice

[salinen]

6. Since now we know that the premises for

war were illegitimate, then this administration must be known as common murderers.

[Cleita]

7. No kidding.

Bush is responsible for so many deaths.

[ConsAreLiars]

8. the video, audio and transcript are here

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/24/1443226&mode=thread&tid=25

I encourage everyone who is unfamiliar with her "voice" to take the time to hear her at the highest bandwidth level possible for you.

More here:
http://www.democracynow.org/search.pl?query=Arundhati+Roy

[burrowowl]

10. Many thanks!

She has a neat voice.
Oh! but I love that woman!
She has a way with words, knowledge of literature, cultures and as the French say: Her eyes don't get cold (i.e., she is gutsy!), etc.

[ConsAreLiars]

11. Thank you, and for those who think she is just some "ideologue"

"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, dust green 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. The nights are clear, but suffused with sloth and sullen expectation. But by early June the southwest monsoon breaks and there are three months of wind and water with short spells of sharp, glittering sunshine that thrilled children snatch to play with. The countryside turns an immodest green. Boundaries blur as tapioca fences take root and bloom. Brick walls turn moss green. Pepper vines snake up electric poles. Wild creepers burst through laterite banks and spill across the flooded roads."

This is from "The god of small things" as reprinted here: http://aroy.miena.com/

More of that book is reprinted here:
http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=title&titleID=414&view=excerpt

I spent a fair bit of time in India, some in Kerala, and it touched me deeply as a beautiful and profoundly rich (beneath the hardships so evident) land. Her words above capture this feeling in a way that nothing else has done, and it is because her words are so true. She goes to the very essence of things.

[Bhaisahab]

12. come again...

and u wont have to spend on hotels if you're in the south. you can stay with us :)

[ConsAreLiars]

14. my fondest dream

is to return to India, especially the south. I slept in many places, a few homes, many gov't or religious hostels, many very inexpensive hotels, some temples, sometimes in the tent I carried, and in every case felt I was more "at home" than anywhere else I had ever been. (Well, I feel very much at home here in Seattle now, but I DO miss India.) When I returned to the US I was stunned by how grey and lifeless and mechanoidish (sorry for the neologism) way things looked. It was going from living color to Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." This is why Roy's words resonated so much with me. If/when I can return, I'll give you a shout.

[Bhaisahab]

15. you from seattle??

man u MUST give me a shout! one of my fondest dreams is to visit seattle coz i'm such a sucker for all that kurt cobain left behind.
so maybe I can give ya a shout when in seattle :)

[Terwilliger]

9. absolutely agree

one of the reasons I'm so dissatisfied with the status quo

[lcordero]

13. Heh

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft recently declared that U.S. freedoms are "not the grant of any government or document, but….our endowment from God."

He just declared himself an athiest by saying this.