Top-posting, just to say that I find Shiv's summary the best. On 24 March 2010 07:15, ss <cybers...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 Mar 2010 9:45:17 pm Shoba Narayan wrote: > > Why does she evoke so much ire? > > A Roy has made more enemies than I could have hoped for. I for one am > greatly > pleased at the ire she evokes. This has nothing (IMHO) to do with male > inferiority TamBram or non TamBram, which is is a "You farted" accusation > (I > will explain that one some other time) > > I had no specific feelings about Arundhati Roy when I paid for, bought and > read her book. I actually managed to finish it - which is better than I > could > do for Ramchandra Guha's intensely soporific magnum opus. > > Perhaps for the second time on Silk I must point out that in comparing Guha > and Roy I am reminded of the riddle "What is the difference between a bad > marksman and a constipated owl?" The answer is that one shoots but never > hits > while the other hoots but never shits. Guha talks sense, but writes badly. > Roy talks crap but writes well. > > It is Roy's tongue and her causes that create a feeling of inferiority. Her > capacity for rhetoric is an art and it is very difficult to do point by > point > rebuttals of crap written well. I sometimes write crap well myself, > designed > to be rebuttal resistant, and should know. Her activism wins her enemies > because she reveals some gaping blind spots that she deftly avoids as she > uses the power of her rhetoric to push what she sees as the truth, and > crushes into the dirt anyone who tries to point out that reality is more > than > can be visible to one who wears blinkers. A half truth is half lie, or at > least half ignorance. > > Arundhati Roy is a brilliant half-wit. > > shiv > > -- J. Alfred Prufrock "Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman - But who is that on the other side of you?"
