Sometimes, a writer's style of writin...

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Sometimes, a writer's style of writing is so opposed to the virtue of simplicity that you wonder whether you are reading a book at leisure or appearing for GRE or GMAT exam. Simple, easily understandable language is sacrificed at the altar of sophistication and the vain urge to 'wow' the audience. Arudhati Roy is one such writer, her analogies are a pain and a half, and descriptions are so prosaic that you end up shaking your head as if a heavy weight boxer has hit you bang on the nose. If Arundhati's misadventures had been limited to her books alone, no one would have a problem with it. After all, no one is forcing you or me to read her book, we pick it up of our own accord or are gifted one by a pseudo-intellectual. The problem is when Ms. Arundhati Roy climbs on to national centrestage and starts glorifying all that her beloved Maoists are doing with not even a hint of empathy for the recent victims of their recent terrorist like activities.

Speaking recently at a function organised by the Marathi Patrakar Sangh in Mumbai, Arundhati was back to what she does best, India bashing.

For starters she says and I quote, "The government is manufacturing an enemy because it needs a war". Really Ms. Roy? The government needs this additional headache to add to its already overflowing cup of woes? While there is no denying the fact that the adivasis and villagers of many states in India have been cruelly deprived of a fair share of spoils, to say that it is a war of the manufacturing of the Union of India is being extremely biased. Why would the government invite her to mediate between itself and the rebels? Even if the government is just posturing, why not volunteer and expose its hypocrisy when it baulks at further action? When 76 CRPF men were killed by her beloved Maoists, did she volunteer to mediate between the government and the rebels? No! She just wants to hog the limelight without getting her hands dirty. Even when she was asked to mediate, she refused. Instead, at Mumbai, she is questioning the purpose of the presence of the CRPF men in the jungles of Dantewada. They were following orders Arundhati, men with families, with aged, dependent parents, wives and children who needed them. You can't dismiss their deaths with an indifferent wave of the hand. Now when her beloved Maoists have derailed a train thereby killing more than 100 people, including young children, I'm sure Ms. Roy will again find a way to defend her warriors. 

According to her, we are all under the attack of a marauding capitalism. I wish she were take off her rose tinted glasses and take a long hard look at her Maoists, the country that they get their support and ideologies from, is also no longer Maoist/ Communist. It is as capitalist as USA except that the personal freedom allowed by the citizens of USA is missing in China. Internet is monitored, news is censored, voices of dissent are crushed brutally as the entire world saw in the Tianneman square massacre. Arundhati, bless your stars you don't live in the nation that your comrades get their ideology from, you'd disappear without a trace. It is very easy to live in India and rant against the governance and she is doing a great job of not helping find a solution but garnering limelight for herself. After all, if the problem got solved, who would listen to her rave and rant? Ms. Ry, don't worry, we're a huge country, with minor and major crises cropping up everywhere. You will have enough burning pyres to light up your persona. Now can you help us get the Maoists to the negotiating table please?

P.S.: She reminds me of Maneka Gandhi, rabidly (pun intended) to a cause. Ms. Maneka would rather have her beloved pariah dogs chew our butts off than have their cojones removed and Ms. Roy would rather have people die all around than actually do something to help, even when she is in a position to. Unless, it is all a sham and the only intention is to garner Brownie points while hogging the limelight. Massey Memsahib, your call!!