Arundhati Roy...?

[imax2268]

I keep seeing this womans picture around DU...I found her name...Arundhati Roy...can someone give me more info on her...I found her website but it didn't give me much information...from what I can see she was an activist...I think...what was she about...?

Anyway...just curious...

[ConsAreLiars]

1. Start here

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

Think Zinn, Ghandi, Marx, Jesus, Buddha, Mandela, and your favorite poets and musicians. She is living proof that humanity deserves to survive despite the evidence to the contrary.

[rooboy]

2. Since when was Arundhati Roy a "was"?? ....

she's very much an "is" as far as I'm aware, and an astoundingly articulate writer.

[NYC]

3. An example:

http://www.hindu.com/2004/01/18/stories/2004011800181400.htm

... The tradition of `turkey pardoning' in the U.S. is a wonderful allegory for New Racism. Every year since 1947, the National Turkey Federation presents the U.S. President with a turkey for Thanksgiving. Every year, in a show of ceremonial magnanimity, the President spares that particular bird (and eats another one). After receiving the presidential pardon, the Chosen One is sent to Frying Pan Park in Virginia to live out its natural life. The rest of the 50 million turkeys raised for Thanksgiving are slaughtered and eaten on Thanksgiving Day. ConAgra Foods, the company that has won the Presidential Turkey contract, says it trains the lucky birds to be sociable, to interact with dignitaries, school children and the press. (Soon they'll even speak English!)

That's how New Racism in the corporate era works. A few carefully bred turkeys — the local elites of various countries, a community of wealthy immigrants, investment bankers, the occasional Colin Powell, or Condoleezza Rice, some singers, some writers (like myself) — are given absolution and a pass to Frying Pan Park. The remaining millions lose their jobs, are evicted from their homes, have their water and electricity connections cut, and die of AIDS. Basically they're for the pot. But the Fortunate Fowls in Frying Pan Park are doing fine. Some of them even work for the IMF and the WTO — so who can accuse those organisations of being anti-turkey? Some serve as board members on the Turkey Choosing Committee — so who can say that turkeys are against Thanksgiving? They participate in it! Who can say the poor are anti-corporate globalisation? There's a stampede to get into Frying Pan Park. So what if most perish on the way? ...

[dudeness]

4. a wonderful author and orator..

imho on par with chomsky..pilger etc

[Chicago Democrat]

5. She is so wonderful. She talks about Neo-Liberalism.

She is the first place I heard this term Neo Liberalism. Which I've heard again here. Its not good. Its bad, and we (the USA) do it alot. I need to know more about Neo Liberalism and should read her books. I've heard her speak many times. She is so incredibly charming.

[Ekova]

6. Paints a beautiful picture with her words.

I just started reading The God of Small Things, excellent so far. If you go to www.robert-fisk.com there are audio links if you'd like to listen to her speak, I highly recommend it.

[imax2268]

8. wow...thanks...

I will get started with all those links...

now...not to get all mush and what not...but she seems...to me anyway...very attractive...!

Thanks guys...more links would be appreciated...

[Ekova]

9. I agree.

Personally, she's one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.
ZNet has some transcripts of her talks as well.

[ConsAreLiars]

7. Not just "an activist." Listen to these words

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, dustgreen 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 mossgreen. Pepper vines snake up electric poles. Wild creepers burst through laterite banks and spill across the flooded roads. Boats ply in the bazaars. And small fish appear in the puddles that fill the PWD potholes on the highways.

It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, plowing it up like gunfire. The old house on the hill wore its steep, gabled roof pulled over its ears like a low hat. The walls, streaked with moss, had grown soft, and bulged a little with dampness that seeped up from the ground. The wild, overgrown garden was full of the whisper and scurry of small lives. In the undergrowth a rat snake rubbed itself against a glistening stone. Hopeful yellow bullfrogs cruised the scummy pond for mates. A drenched mongoose flashed across the leaf-strewn driveway.

From:
http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=title&titleID=414&view=excerpt

And several more pages at that site. Roy is much more than "an activist." Thanks for reminding me.

[imax2268]

10. Thanks everyone...

got some good info that will keep me busy once I get off of DU after awhile...but the Clarke thing is just to good to stop talking about...

Thanks a bunch...I think I might even buy one of her books...

[el_gato]

11. some more of her spoken word

http://www.alternativetentacles.com/octopodes/799/ILXuWQ6FvvpN8ENi2mD/Arundhati_Roy-Business_of_War.mp3

[burythehatchet]

12. Mark my words..

she will be one of the prominent leaders of the global revolution.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. she wrote "The God of Small Things" and "War Talk"

[alfredo]

14. My favorite essay of her's

Confronting Empire.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=2919

[Joanne98]

15. She's really cool

And a really good writer. A real class act.