Arundhati Roy at Karachi Press Club - Part 2

"Women to Reclaim Public Space"

Women's Action Forum held a program of defiance and resistance at Karachi Press Club on 8th May 2009. Arundhati Roy was the closing speaker.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4z-xSbBaQo

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[yasuynnuf1947]

I wish more people understand what she means. You say you disagree with her, but whats there to disagree with? Her arguement that women should get their rights? the fact that people are being suppressed in kashmir because of politics between Pakistan and India?

May be you don't LIKE what she is saying because what she says goes against your dogmatic identities.

[ahsan988]

divine words!

[pvivekvijayan]

@yasuynnuf1947 u will say this cause u r a muslim.. u dont care about india and its people... its very simple

[pvivekvijayan]

SHAMELESS BITCH.. CURSE OF INDIA..!

[Rajesh123268]

ARUNDHATI MAYBE IN THE PAYROLL OF ISI AND CHINA. HER GOD OF SMALL WORDS ARE JUST FART MEANT FOR ISI AND CHINESE MASTERS.

IF SHE HAS COURAGE, SHE SHOULD SPEAK ABOUT GENOCIDE OF BALUCHIS AND GENOCIDE OF HAZARA AND GENOCIDE OF SHIAS AND SHE SHOULD SPEAK ABOUT GENOCIDE OF PANDITS IN KASHMIR.

[jkabc25]

She is a Chinese agent...Except few fools nobody care her words.Pakistanis like Arundhati Roy because she is an enemy of India and friend of China and pakistan( rivals of Indian Democracy)

[lqacwaz1]

@lqacwaz1 (last part: contd. from below)

AR's work plus the accessories she wears/wore over all these years, helped me break that stereotype within me - but it took 6 years!

(but say an unknown male *looks* like a Bajrang Dal goon, trademake tilak [crimson line painted on forehead] ... *some* stereotyping is useful maybe, I don't know ... as long as I keep the possibility open that this hypothetical Bajrang-Dal type might, just might, turn out to be an anarchofeminist atheist liberal..)

[lqacwaz1]

@lqacwaz1 (contd from below)

I mean I agreed, but some how (then, in the 1990s) I couldn't quite 'get' it, couldn't quite come to terms with the idea of a socially reactionary, politically progressive force.

My wife used to be exasperated at my mental blocks with such things. [Actually it isn't with males only: a maoist woman friend who I am out of touch with since 1995, was puzzled that another (male) Sikh maoist wore a turban - a religious symbol.]

(contd. in self-reply)

[lqacwaz1]

Something I haven't seen remarked on: AR breaks so many stereotypes. I mean, before 1997 I thought necklaces, rings and bangles and stuff for women - unless the necklaces etc. were of the hippie type - were signs of reaction or male oppression. Nose-studs - definitely reactionary I used to think. (Of course I am male and AR rightly says in the film IWAGITO that males are full of crap...) Similarly I was puzzled when Edward Said wrote Hamas are a genuine resistance. (contd. in 'reply')

My

[varuntripathi1]

oh really