silly!
Absolut* is not democracy
but communism
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolut_Vodka
spot the difference--
Rosa Luxemburg*
and Arundhati Roy
*Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish-German communist who was brutally murdered by the social democratic government and the Freikorps in Germany(World War I veterans who banded together into right-wing paramilitary groups).
a generation gap—
she whispers in the ears of Marx:
“papa don’t preach*”
In her book ‘Capitalism: A Ghost Story Arundhati Roy calls Marxism nothing but cussing. “Maybe it’s all Karl Marx’s fault (All that cussing).”
her new slogan for the adivasis—
“adivasis of India, unite!
you have nothing to lose but your chaddis*”
*Recall Marx’s slogan in The Communist Manifesto: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lost but your chains.”
is free will an illusion?--
you just have to choose
between Caudwell* & Arundhati to know
*Christopher Caudwell is the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg (20 October 1907 – 12 February 1937), a British Marxist writer, thinker and poet. He is famous for his book 'Illusion & reality' & also his studies on bourgeois illusions.
you just have to choose
between Caudwell* & Arundhati to know
*Christopher Caudwell is the pseudonym of Christopher St. John Sprigg (20 October 1907 – 12 February 1937), a British Marxist writer, thinker and poet. He is famous for his book 'Illusion & reality' & also his studies on bourgeois illusions.
who is Arundhati Roy?
I am reminded of the tale
the seven blind men & the elephant
I am reminded of the tale
the seven blind men & the elephant
Arundhati’s rhetoric--
the source itself
is Gangotri*
food for thought--
for Arundhati Roy
Maoists - Whey protein
Arundhati Roy is not on the left-
she appears to be on the left
she is a refraction
3-d effect—
now with the Red Flag
now with the star- spangled banner
a jet-setter—
her huge
carbon footprint on the globe
her pleas for Western liberal democracy
fall on deaf ears—
time for her to take sanyas on Niyamgiri*
They are home to more than 8,000 of the Dongria Kondh people, whose lifestyle and religion have helped nurture the area’s dense forests and unusually rich wildlife.
The Dongria Kondh have successfully fought off Vedanta Resources, a company that was determined to mine their sacred mountain’s rich seam of bauxite (aluminium ore).
the Second Coming*—
India’s poor
in thrall of Arundhati Roy
*In Christianity and Islam, the Second Coming of Christ, the second advent, sometimes called the parousia, is the anticipated return of Jesus to Earth.
soon in Louvre*
the laughing Buddha (read: Arundhati Roy)
in place of Mona Lisa
*The Musée du Louvre in French, the Louvre Museum or simply The Louvre—is one of the world's largest museums, and a historic monument in Paris, France.
the agony aunt—
India’s dispossessed
make a beeline for her
prancing Arundhati—
I am reminded of Shakespeare’s poem:
“all the world’s a stage…”
what a toreador!
waving the red cloth
before the Indian State
I dunno why
but Arundhati & Maoists
remind me of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
the 21st century
Hall of Fame—
Arundhati, Julian Assange* & Snowden**
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
** Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983)[1] is a former technical contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who leaked details of top-secret American and British government mass surveillance programs to the press.
who is afraid of her?
I am!
‘khap panchayat’ is with her (read: the People’s Court**)
*The courts used by Maoists in India to try their opponents.
her outside support —
she differs with the Maoists
on democracy v socialism
women always
had good in India—
first Mayawati*, then Mamta** & now Arundhati
* Kumari Mayawati (born 15 January 1956 in New Delhi) is an Indian politician. She served four terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP) as head of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which focuses on a platform of social change to improve the welfare of the weakest strata of Indian society—the Bahujans or Dalits, Other Backward Classes, and religious minorities.
the democracy crusader—
the question before the Indian State:
“who will bell the cat?”
jai Kali Ma*
jai Arundhati Roy--
both great slayers of evil
I am already through with Time & Newsweek—
I won’t be seduced
by her Columbian School of Journalism reportage
make no mistake--
Arundhati is a Young Pioneer*
replete with a red neck scarf & the Young Pioneer salute
she hobnobs with the Maoists
& yet...paraphrasing her:
“democracy can be a heady stuff”
“Whether democracy should be the utopia that all "developing" societies aspire to is a separate question altogether.” (I think it should. The early, idealistic phase can be quite heady.) in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arundhati-roy/what-have-we-done-to-demo_b_301294.html
she goes on & on about democracy-
a pity USSR is no more
otherwise a stint in the Higher Party School* would have done her a world of good
*The Higher Party School was created in 1939 under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was tasked with training future leaders (known in Soviet parlance as "cadres") for Party and state positions. The purpose was to prepare them for propaganda work with the masses and for supervising managers and state officials, while ensuring their political loyalty or partynost (Party-mindedness).
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/higher-party-school#ixzz2X1xkupix
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/higher-party-school#ixzz2X1xkupix
please somebody tell her--
bourgeois democracy is nothing but
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie over the toilers
Arundhati’s left anticommunism
the unkindest cut--
her glittering nose pin!
indeed strange bedfellows--
Arundhati Roy
and Maoists
guys, she is not Ford Foundation funded--
she just wants Western liberal democracy
for India
a Pom Pom girl
& what a Pom Pom girl
for American style democracy*
*”While we're still arguing about whether there's life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By "democracy" I don't mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the working model: Western liberal democracy, and its variants, such as they are.” in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arundhati-roy/what-have-we-done-to-demo_b_301294.html
Z-plus security--
Arundhati's elite background
& her connections with India who's who
a paragon of freedom-
now the Statue of Liberty
with Arundhati Roy face
what Maoists seek?
attention?
well, they have Arundhati
the East is red--
look again
it is merely her Gothic prose
Maoists have already captured
the heart of India--
Arundhati in Delhi
under the star spangled sky--
dreaming about
the star spangled American flag
(this Haiku is based on Arundhati Roy's essay 'Walking with the Comrades')
& her favourite song:
'duniyaa ne ham ko diyaa kyaa*
duniyaa se ham ne liyaa kyaa
ham sab ki paravaah karen kyoon
sab ne hamaaraa kiyaa kyaa'
The English translation of this famous song from ‘Hare Rama, Hare Krishna’ movie translated into English:
(What has the world given to us?
What have we taken from the world?
Why should we care about others?
What others have done for us?)
Arundhati's 'democracy raag'--
yes but Lenin said:
"for what class?"*
*V. I. Lenin, “The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky”
Maoists unlikely to usurp
the Indian state by 2050
but she would surely win the Noble Prize
she has worn many hats-
from an architect, an aerobics instructor
to Maoist sympathizer
Marx said 'in communist society, it would be possible to hunt in the morning,
fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner...'*
Arundhati Roy has filmed, worked as an aerobics instructor in a 5-star hotel, was an architect & now a social activist espousing the cause of Maoists in India.
** Marx in German Ideology
she is the missing link--
neither a communist
nor a citizen proper
a spectre is haunting India*--
the spectre
of Arundhati Roy
*paraphrasing Marx in the Communist Manifesto
she is a fierce critic of India--
Rakesh Sharma’s reply to Indira Gandhi’s query: ”how does India look from space?”
' "Saare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara"*
*While Rakesh Sharma was in space, he was asked by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on a famous conversation, who asked him how does India look from space, Rakesh replied "Saare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara" meaning 'Our land of Hindustan, is the Best in the world'.
Arundhati Roy
in India’s hinterland--
carrying on with the White Man’s Burden
she is one of India’s eagles—
so nice to see her
mingle with the mice
‘democracy can be a heady stuff’—
yes, it is perfect
to lord over the poor
‘democracy can be a heady stuff’
of the people, by the people, for the people—
what an Orwellian lie!
mirror mirror on the wall—
People magazine picks Arundhati Roy
as one of the world's 50 most beautiful people
