OUR STRATEGY - SUSAN ARUNDHATI ROY
Susan Arundhati Roy
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it.
To deprive it of oxygen.
To shame it.
To mock it.
With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our
brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories.
Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we
refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history,
their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than
we need them.
Another world
is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her
breathing.”
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Notre stratégie
ne doit pas seulement consister à confronter l’EMPIRE, mais de l’assiéger !
De le priver d’oxygène !
De le déshonorer !
De nous moquer de
lui !
Avec nos talents
artistiques, notre musique, notre littérature, notre obstination, notre joie,
notre génie, notre implacabilité - et notre habilité à raconter nos propres
histoires. Des histoires qui sont
différentes de celles utilisées pour nous faire croire grâce au lavage de
cerveau.
Arundhati Roy
Case might be filed against Geelani, Arundhati Roy
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The legal opinion says that any person who by words or expression of any kind brings or attempts to provoke a feeling of hatred or contempt or disaffection towards government by law is culpable under Section 124 A and this is a punishable offence, where a person can be imprisoned for three years to life imprisonment and a fine can also be imposed.
The comments made by these two have been seen as attempts to instigate secession.
A case under Section 124-A for sedition is possible against Hurriyat Conference Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani and writer Arundhati Roy for their anti-India speeches.
Geelani said he did not say anything new in Delhi that he had not said in Kashmir before.
At a seminar on Kashmir on Sunday, writer Arundhati Roy said, "Kashmir has never been an integral part of India - it is a historical fact. Even the Indian government has accepted this."
Geelani's speech in New Delhi had triggered sharp comments from the BJP.
At the convention on 'Azadi - The Only Way', Geelani shared the stage with writer Arundhati Roy and pro-Maoist leader Vara Vara Rao among others. The audience heckled Geelani with one of them throwing a shoe.
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Quotes
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no
secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear
again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They
don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise
you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in.
Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen
as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you
will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know
who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to
know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times
like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk
unsaid inside.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what
careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy
― Arundhati Roy
“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while
you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To
never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the
unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To
seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never
simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect
strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To
never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy
― Arundhati Roy
“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“But what was there to say?
Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.
Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief.
Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few
dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when
they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned
house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched
furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved.
Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and
reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the
bleached bones of a story.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy
― Arundhati Roy
“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be
anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”
― Arundhati Roy
― Arundhati Roy
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay
siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our
art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our
brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own
stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being
brainwashed to believe.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk
“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the
palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. ”
― Arundhati Roy
― Arundhati Roy
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her
eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked
cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of
thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully
like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha
did, is much the harder thing to do.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it
mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because
Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised
forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things
kept happening”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”
― Arundhati Roy
― Arundhati Roy
“Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“If he touched her, he couldn't talk to her, if he loved her he
couldn't leave, if he spoke he couldn't listen, if he fought he couldn't
win.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm
beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually
the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories
reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative -
they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction
and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For
reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and
nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to
every morning.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the
genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that
governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as
ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.”
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk
― Arundhati Roy, War Talk
“Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
