Two things.
(1) Very very funny, even though initially it seemed so silly I couldn't believe it was true. But the miracle of islam makes it only too real.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/Sid60226.htm
<b>How to Sow the Seeds of Doubt</b>
It's about a dialogue with a muslim on whether allah loves pigs too. Watch the faithful go into a tailspin on that one. (I've heard of former-christians having fun with christians about whether gawd loves the devil too, but this is even more ridiculous!) A little shocked that it was an Indian muslim who was so dense...
(2) Shambhu, keep writing (about anything, not necessarily about islami stuff). At least in your spare time. Don't spend all your time on school/research/work. Not everyone can write (I can't, but don't feel bad for me: I can read!) or paint or compose or whatever, so don't waste any skills.
Now if everyone in India put their unique talents to use, our perspectives can gain visibility against such excuses-for-artists like MFHs, Meera Nairs and Arundhati Roys. My toes can scrawl better than MFH (that's not hard, is it) and - well I can't write, so best leave off comparing myself to Roy whose work I've never had the misfortune to read anyway.
AR was apparently christened Margaret Roy (not Suzanne?) according to Richard Crasta (K.Ram mentioned the latter's book "Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery" reviewed at link to follow). And another author accuses the Keralite christian Roy of having slept her way toward eventually getting the Booker Prize for her 'gawd of small stuff'. Sorry if this is all old news.
http://www.sandeepweb.com/2005/08/05/impre...tional-slavery/
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And then thereâs an insight into the politics of names. This is extremely subtle but powerful. Arundhati Royâs real name is Margaret Roy but the West refuses to publish books authored by an Indian who has a non-Hindu name. From experience, Crasta says he was promised a hefty advance for one of his novels the moment he said he was contemplating a change of his name to Avatar Prabhu.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Richard Crasta too is a Indian christian according to the above link.
Bet Margaret didn't change her name on account of the west though; she's just a crypto.
http://www.exile.ru/2002-April-05/great_li...f_our_time.html
"Great literary frauds of our time: Arundhati Roy"
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And she is a fraud. A literary careerist who has parlayed an overwritten melodrama into unearned fame; a child of privilege whose early experiments in poverty were no more than a smart career move; a Yuppie whose real job was aerobics instructor, not slum bottle-recycler; a world-travelled, overeducated dilettante posing as a regional writer; and a fake saint who f*cked her way to fame and survives, in spite of her complete lack of talent, because her crude scolding warms the heart of old British lefties who love it when their tame Indian slaves get up on their hind legs to denounce the bloody Americans, who oppress the world so much less skillfully than they used to.
Her most public, most embarrassing slip came in her noble struggle against the dam. She was given a three month jail sentence for obstructing the builders. Gandhi-like, she went to jail...then slunk out after 24 hours, opting to pay a 75-rupee ($1.50) fine rather than show solidarity with the humble prisoners. It seems she found an Indian prison much less spiritual than she had imagined. Rather dirty, in fact. 24 hours was just time enough to be photographed behind bars, looking fierce and defiant; after that there was no point in staying in such an unsanitary place.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Arundhati Roy, moral crusader.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Other than the excerpt pasted, this last link - an article by one John Dolan - is practically useless with all its raving about the 'Oryan' Arundhati Roy (they're obsessed with that, what?). He's particularly angry at her lame anti-Americanism. More generally, he paints her character as representative of the regular Indoo and from what I can make out, he seems to imply she's Hindu. He even manages to insert a sentence about her being 'like Kaali' or something. Doesn't he know she's a good ole christian like him? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Ridicule her by all means, but get it right: she's a christo, like D'Souza and many another whiny attention-seeker.
(It was them who gave the monsters the microphones in the first place and then they complain about it....)
And if Americans like Dolan (even when their writings are posted on a Russian site) don't like what their whiny Indian pets like AR are writing against the US, they should tell the US govt to stop sponsoring the Indian left. We'd all be grateful.
(1) Very very funny, even though initially it seemed so silly I couldn't believe it was true. But the miracle of islam makes it only too real.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/Sid60226.htm
<b>How to Sow the Seeds of Doubt</b>
It's about a dialogue with a muslim on whether allah loves pigs too. Watch the faithful go into a tailspin on that one. (I've heard of former-christians having fun with christians about whether gawd loves the devil too, but this is even more ridiculous!) A little shocked that it was an Indian muslim who was so dense...
(2) Shambhu, keep writing (about anything, not necessarily about islami stuff). At least in your spare time. Don't spend all your time on school/research/work. Not everyone can write (I can't, but don't feel bad for me: I can read!) or paint or compose or whatever, so don't waste any skills.
Now if everyone in India put their unique talents to use, our perspectives can gain visibility against such excuses-for-artists like MFHs, Meera Nairs and Arundhati Roys. My toes can scrawl better than MFH (that's not hard, is it) and - well I can't write, so best leave off comparing myself to Roy whose work I've never had the misfortune to read anyway.
AR was apparently christened Margaret Roy (not Suzanne?) according to Richard Crasta (K.Ram mentioned the latter's book "Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery" reviewed at link to follow). And another author accuses the Keralite christian Roy of having slept her way toward eventually getting the Booker Prize for her 'gawd of small stuff'. Sorry if this is all old news.
http://www.sandeepweb.com/2005/08/05/impre...tional-slavery/
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And then thereâs an insight into the politics of names. This is extremely subtle but powerful. Arundhati Royâs real name is Margaret Roy but the West refuses to publish books authored by an Indian who has a non-Hindu name. From experience, Crasta says he was promised a hefty advance for one of his novels the moment he said he was contemplating a change of his name to Avatar Prabhu.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Richard Crasta too is a Indian christian according to the above link.
Bet Margaret didn't change her name on account of the west though; she's just a crypto.
http://www.exile.ru/2002-April-05/great_li...f_our_time.html
"Great literary frauds of our time: Arundhati Roy"
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And she is a fraud. A literary careerist who has parlayed an overwritten melodrama into unearned fame; a child of privilege whose early experiments in poverty were no more than a smart career move; a Yuppie whose real job was aerobics instructor, not slum bottle-recycler; a world-travelled, overeducated dilettante posing as a regional writer; and a fake saint who f*cked her way to fame and survives, in spite of her complete lack of talent, because her crude scolding warms the heart of old British lefties who love it when their tame Indian slaves get up on their hind legs to denounce the bloody Americans, who oppress the world so much less skillfully than they used to.
Her most public, most embarrassing slip came in her noble struggle against the dam. She was given a three month jail sentence for obstructing the builders. Gandhi-like, she went to jail...then slunk out after 24 hours, opting to pay a 75-rupee ($1.50) fine rather than show solidarity with the humble prisoners. It seems she found an Indian prison much less spiritual than she had imagined. Rather dirty, in fact. 24 hours was just time enough to be photographed behind bars, looking fierce and defiant; after that there was no point in staying in such an unsanitary place.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Arundhati Roy, moral crusader.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Other than the excerpt pasted, this last link - an article by one John Dolan - is practically useless with all its raving about the 'Oryan' Arundhati Roy (they're obsessed with that, what?). He's particularly angry at her lame anti-Americanism. More generally, he paints her character as representative of the regular Indoo and from what I can make out, he seems to imply she's Hindu. He even manages to insert a sentence about her being 'like Kaali' or something. Doesn't he know she's a good ole christian like him? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> Ridicule her by all means, but get it right: she's a christo, like D'Souza and many another whiny attention-seeker.
(It was them who gave the monsters the microphones in the first place and then they complain about it....)
And if Americans like Dolan (even when their writings are posted on a Russian site) don't like what their whiny Indian pets like AR are writing against the US, they should tell the US govt to stop sponsoring the Indian left. We'd all be grateful.