--- On Tue, 23/3/10, Indrajit Gupta <bonoba...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> From: Indrajit Gupta <bonoba...@yahoo.co.in> > Subject: Re: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out there > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 11:20 > > > --- On Tue, 23/3/10, Shoba Narayan <narayan.sh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > From: Shoba Narayan <narayan.sh...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [silk] For the Arundhati Roy haters out > there > > To: silklist@lists.hserus.net > > Date: Tuesday, 23 March, 2010, 11:04 > > I LOVED God of Small Things. It > > was magically written and beautifully crafted. As a > > piece of fiction, it is quite wonderful. > > > > Re: what Roy did post her Booker-fame is the object of > much > > of this discussion, it seems like. A lot of people > > hate her polemics and I have no argument with that. > > But if you are a writer who has only one book in you > and if > > that book so happens to be a global bestseller and a > > critics' darling, you have two options of what to do > with > > your fame: you can do a Salinger and live like a > hermit in > > New Hampshire. Or you can turn activist. I would > > choose the latter. I may not agree with all of > Roy's > > politics but at least she has decided to "use" her > fame for > > some cause (misguided or not-- and as it happens, I > don't > > find her causes misguided either). > > > > So, all you Arundhati Roy haters can go stuff > > yourselves.... > > How's that for a spirited response? :) > > > > Shoba > > How's that? As stuff goes, great stuff. I am having an anxiety attack. Does my completely detached and aesthic criticism of the criticism make me an Arundhati Roy hater hater? I sincerely hope not. I still don't like her latter-day polemics.
