In a recent interview with anti-hindu journalist Mehdi Hasan that has sparked outrage, leftist extremist author Arundhati Roy launched a vicious attack on India’s democratic institutions, Hindu culture, and national security apparatus, repeating her familiar anti-India rhetoric that has made her a darling of Western leftist circles.
On Babri Masjid
Roy goes hyperbole on the Babri Masjid issue. She said, “I actually saw the Rath Yatra when I was in Bhopal, Advani’s Rath Yatra, the chariot procession asking for the mosque to be demolished and a temple to be built and I just saw the absolute hatred that was being whipped up you know so You knew that something was coming.”
Roy’s characteristic hyperbole ignores the complex historical context and judicial processes surrounding the Ayodhya dispute, instead reducing it to simple “hatred.”
On Her Secessionist Comments On Kashmir
Hasan, like a fanboy, seemed to be trying to do his best to be in her good books. Asking about the statements she made long back about Kashmir, he said, “You’re under threat of prosecution India right now ridiculously for comments you made on Kashmir in 2010. How do you get drawn to all these marginalized people to their causes to their struggles? Not just Muslims in Kashmir or poor people across India but Naxalites, Maoist insurgents deep in the rural jungle. What draws someone like you with your background, your upbringing? How do you end up standing with these people?”
Roy replied, “I’m not fighting on behalf of anybody. I am doing it because I’m in the swim of things. I am a part of it all and I am I have a political point of view which is not subject based. You know, I see the connection between dams and displacement and mining and climate change and fundamentalism and the walls between Hindu nationalism and the corporates. The the the fact that the Indian mass media is is criminal. There’s no other description for it. And they are owned by these corporations. There’s a direct conflict of interest. So for me it’s just developing a world view, a point of view and it doesn’t come from just theoretical stuff.”
Hasan followed it up with some more fanboy comments – “you’re being admirably modest”.
“India Used To Be A Friend Of Palestine”
Speaking on the Palestine issue and how India had “lost its dignity”, Roy said, “India used to be a friend of Palestine. India used to be a dignified country it has lost its dignity… there have been no protests about the genocide in Gaza. If 20 people protest the police don’t break it up, the shopkeepers break it up, the right-wing Hindu nationalist. I mean it’s how do you unpoison that river now.”
On Afzal Guru Hanging Done To “Please Society”
She seemed to be confused about Afzal Guru being a woman and her meeting him in jail – we are reproducing what she said as is.
“I’ve written a lot about all these fake attacks and fake terrorists and fake assassination attempts. And it started by my being in jail and meeting a woman called Afzan Guru who had been put into jail for this parliament attack which sounded so hokey from the start. And then I met her I realized she had no idea why she was there. I came out. I just went off to Goa alone with a tower of legal documents just to say what the hell is going on here, you know, and came back uh and realized that it’s absolutely crazy what’s and the Supreme Court passes a judgment sentencing someone to death saying that we have no evidence to prove that he belonged to a terrorist group. But in order to satisfy the collective conscience of society, we’re sentencing him to death. And then they hang him. Afzal Guru,”
On Bollywood and Indian Culture
When asked why Indian media and Bollywood did not condemn or speak against PM Modi, she said, “Bollywood and mainstream media anchors are like lynch mob leaders sometimes, and people who actually lynch people, put it up on YouTube and boast about it. Bollywood has made some unforgivable films that lead to mass hysteria…”
On India-Israel Relations
In her most inflammatory comments, Roy compares Hindu philosophy to fascism and makes offensive caste-based allegations.
When asked about parallels between India and Israel, she said, “Hindu nationalism and Zionism kind of walk together very easily… if you think you’re the chosen people… within Hinduism is the caste system where Brahmins are the chosen people. So the segue into that sort of fascist thinking is not a hard one to make.”
On ‘Violence’ Against Muslims in India
Roy then went on to make grotesque, exaggerated claims about violence in India that bear no resemblance to ground reality. She said, “Now it’s the Muslims who are taking that place [of Dalits]… you can just go around lynching people and you have mobs with swords come out and say Muslims should be killed, women should be raped and it’s normalized.”
On Genocide Allegations Against India
Roy propagates the dangerous and completely false theory that India is building “internment camps” for Muslims. She said, “When the citizenship amendment act came, they started building these big internment centers and they were not meant to accommodate the hundreds of millions of Muslims, but they were meant to tell people this is where you belong. You are going to be second class citizens. You do not have the rights that everybody else has. Of course, I mean India the thing is it is a very anarchic place with so many languages, so many castes, so many cultures, so much stuff to it’s like to say India is a Hindu country is like trying to pour an ocean into a Bisleri bottle, it’s hard. I don’t think that, but I don’t think that the threat isn’t there although although now in the last election you know, for a bully and a megalomaniac like Modi to have not got a majority has broken him in some ways.”
Arundhati Roy’s interview represents everything that’s wrong with the privileged activist class – living in comfort while relentlessly vilifying their own country abroad. Her statements are not just criticisms but constitute a comprehensive rejection of Indian democracy, Hindu culture, and national sovereignty. While masquerading as human rights advocacy, her rhetoric consistently aligns with India’s detractors and undermines national interests. For Roy, the Indian government that doesn’t match her radical leftist ideology is “fascist,” any expression of Hindu identity is “majoritarian,” and any act of national self-defense is “oppression.” Her words serve not to improve India but to provide ammunition to those who wish to see this great civilization weakened and divided.
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