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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An undated video featuring left-wing extremist writer Arundhati Roy is being widely shared on social media platforms, in which she describes the Indian state as “a colonial state” that has waged military wars against its own people in regions like Kashmir, northeastern states, Punjab, Telangana, and Goa.

Roy argues that the Indian government, backed by an “upper caste Hindu state,” deployed armed forces in these areas, contrasting India’s approach unfavorably with Pakistan’s treatment of its citizens.

One particularly contentious claim in the video is about the 1961 liberation of Goa. Roy suggests that it was not freedom from colonial rule but a form of aggression by an “upper caste Hindu state” against the Christian population.

In the video, she said, “The Indian state, from the moment it became a sovereign nation, from the moment it shook off the shackles of colonialism, it became a colonial state. And it has waged war since 1947 in Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram, Telangana, Punjab, Kashmir, Goa, Hyderabad. If you look at it, it’s like a state that has been perpetually at war and a military war and deploying the army against its own people. The state of Pakistan has not deployed its army against its own people in the way the democratic Indian state has. And if you look at who are these people that the Indian state chose to fight, in all the northeastern states, they were tribal people. In Kashmir, it was the Muslims. In Telangana, it was the tribal people. In Hyderabad, it was the Muslims. In Goa, it’s the Christians. In Punjab, it’s the Sikhs. So, you see this sort of upper caste Hindu state perpetually at war.”

When irresistible weed meets immovable hallucination.

According to Arundhati Roy, the 1961 liberation of Goa by India was in reality an Upper-caste Hindu State waging a war against Christians. pic.twitter.com/YXLqaxgskD

— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) September 15, 2025

Truth About 1961 Goan Liberation

As regards the 1961 military operation, India’s annexation of Goa ended over 450 years of Portuguese colonial rule. This brief campaign, known as Operation Vijay, lasted just over 36 hours with minimal casualties on both sides.

The Indian government, led by then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, had first sought diplomatic and peaceful solutions but was forced to take military action after decades of failed negotiations and Portuguese refusal to relinquish control. The action was widely seen in India as the liberation of Goa from colonizers, not an act of religious oppression against Christians.

The Reality Roy Omits: The Goan Inquisition

The Goan Inquisition (1560–1812), a dark 250-year chapter in history, was indeed a brutal institution run by Portuguese colonialist authorities. Eyewitness accounts, such as those by Gabriel Dellon, a 17th-century French detainee in Goa, detail harrowing events including executions for “heresy,” forced conversions, and grave desecrations.

The Inquisition targeted Hindus, Jews, and even Christians accused of “Judaizing” or practicing their former faith in secret. The punishments were grotesque. Dellon writes of a dead Christian man, tried posthumously for heresy, whose remains were exhumed and burned. The living faced public executions at the stake. Those who consented to a last-minute conversion were granted the ‘mercy’ of being strangled before their bodies were burned; all others were burned alive. Their portraits were later displayed in churches as a warning.

The Inquisition sought to erase indigenous religious practices and enforce Christian orthodoxy but also retained Portuguese-era social hierarchies such as the caste system among converts.

This was the oppressive colonial reality, one where people were persecuted for their faith and burned without trial, that the Indian state ended in 1961. To frame this liberation as an act of Hindu aggression is not just inaccurate; it is a perverse insult to the memory of its victims.

Despite this traumatic past, the Christian community in Goa today receives no hate because Hindus are a micro minority in the state, reducing in number as the days go by.

Exposing Roy’s Frame

Roy’s portrayal distorts the historical realities in several ways. She equated India’s democratic state actions with colonial oppression ignores the context of India’s unity and sovereignty after independence. The Indian military action in Goa was against a foreign colonial power, not an indigenous religious group.

Roy’s commentary is not an isolated lapse but part of a persistent pattern. For her, oppression is not a historical fact to be accurately recorded but a narrative to be weaponized selectively. She vocally condemns the Indian state while whitewashing the crimes of actual colonial and fanatical regimes that inflicted generations of suffering upon millions.

Her rhetoric thrives on sowing division and painting the entire India, a complex, pluralistic democracy, with the reductive brush of majoritarian hate.

The Christian community of Goa remains an integral part of India’s diverse social fabric. The Goan Inquisition was Hindu persecution by the Western Christian powers; the liberation was not an Indian state action against Christians; it was for freedom. The caste-based critique of the Indian state conflates colonial legacies and post-independence developments simplistically.

Experts and scholars emphasize that while India has had internal conflicts and human rights challenges, the history of Goa’s liberation was a decolonizing event benefiting all Goans regardless of faith, not an upper-caste Hindu war on Christians.

An eyewitness account of the Goan Inquisition comes from one Gabriel Dellon of France who spent two years in a Goan prison in the late 17th century.

He writes of a dead man—a Christian man—who was on trial for “Judaizing.” Reverting to Judaism was as heretical as being a Hindu.… pic.twitter.com/f7tECAN5Sb

— Amit Schandillia (@Schandillia) September 16, 2025

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The Jammu and Kashmir government has declared 25 books as ‘forfeited’ under the law for contributing to radicalisation of youth, glorification of terrorists, vilification of security forces and promotion of alienation among the people.

Among them are books by author Arundhati Roy. The J&K Home Department issued an order to this effect late on Wednesday night. The order reads, “The identified 25 books have been found to excite secessionism and endangering sovereignty and integrity of India, thereby, attracting the provisions of Sections 152, 196 and 197 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023.”

The order said that under Section 98 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, the J&K government has declared publication of 25 books, and their copies or other documents to be forfeited to the government. “These 25 books have been identified for propagating false narrative and secessionism in Jammu and Kashmir and need to be declared as ‘forfeited’ in terms of Section 98 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. “It has come to the notice of the government that certain literature propagates false narrative and secessionism in Jammu and Kashmir.”

“Available evidence based on investigations and credible Intelligence unflinchingly indicate that a significant driver behind youth participation in violence and terrorism has been systematic dissemination of false narratives and secessionist literature by its persistent internal circulation, often disguised as historical or political commentary while playing a critical role in misguiding the youth, glorifying terrorism and inciting violence against the Indian State.”

“This literature would deeply impact the psyche of youth by promoting culture of grievance, victimhood and terrorist heroism. Some of the means by which this literature has contributed to the radicalisation of the youth in Jammu and Kashmir include distortion of historical facts, glorification of terrorists, vilification of security forces, religious radicalisation, promotion of alienation, pathway to violence and terrorism.”

The books declared as forfeited by the government include ‘Azadi’ by Arundhati Roy, ‘Kashmir’ (The case of Freedom) by Tariq Ali, Hillal Bhatt, Angana P Chatterji, Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy, ‘The Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012’ by A.G. Noorani, ‘A Dismantled State’ (The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370) by Anuradha Bhasin, ‘Human Rights Violations in Kashmir’ by Piotr Balcerowicz and Agnieszka Kuszewska, ‘Kashmir’s Fight for Freedom’ by Mohd Yosuf Saraf, ‘Colonizing Kashmir, State-Building under Indian Occupation’ by Hafsa Kanjwal, ‘Kashmir Politics and Plebiscite’ by Dr Abdul Jabbar, ‘Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora’ by Essar Batool & Others, ‘Mujahid Ki Azaan’ by Imam Hasan Al-Bana Shaheed edited by Maulan Mohammad Enayatullah Subjhani, ‘Al Jihadul Fil Islam’ by Moulana Moudadi, ‘Independent Kashmir’ by Christopher Snedden, ‘Resisting Occupation in Kashmir’ by Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhat, Ather Zia and Cynthia Mahmood, ‘Between Democracy and Nation’ (Gender and Militarization in Kashmir) by Seema Kazi, ‘Contested Lands’ by Sumantra Bose, ‘In Search of a Future’ (The Story of Kashmir) by David Devadas, ‘Kashmir In Conflict’ (India, Pakistan and the Unending War) by Victoria Schofield, ‘Kashmir at the Cross Roads’ (Inside a 21st Century Conflict) by Sumantra Bose, ‘Resisting Disappearance’ (Military Occupation & Women’s Activism in Kashmir) by Ather Zia, ‘Confronting Terrorism’ by Stephen Pcohen Edited by Maroof Raza, ‘Freedom in Captivity’ (Negotiations of belonging along Kashmiri Frontier) by Radhika Gupta, ‘USA and Kashmir’ by Dr Shamshad Shan, ‘Law & Conflict Resolution in Kashmir’ by Piotr Balcerowicz and Agnieszka Kuszewska, ‘Tarikh-i-Siyasat Kashmir’ by Dr Afaq and ‘Kashmir & the Future of South Asia’ Edited by Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal.

-IANS

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After receiving severe backlash for a Facebook post eulogising left-wing extremist writer Arundhati Roy, Amar Chitra Katha Studio was forced to clarify that it had no plans to create a book or collaborate in any way with Arundhati Roy.

Amar Chitra Katha (ACK), a revered comics publisher well-known for its religious and historical comics and graphic novels, published a Facebook post about the contentious ultra-left-wing propagandist Arundhati Roy on Thursday, April 27. The Amar Chitra Katha Studio wrote on Facebook about Roy’s life and work.

Amar Chitra Katha Studio’s Facebook post read, “Born in Shillong in 1961, Arundhati Roy is an architect, screenplay writer, and author. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, became a global phenomenon, winning the Booker Prize in 1997. Apart from her work in fiction, she has authored non-fictional books and essays, about various political and social causes. Her work in screenplay writing has also been appreciated, with her first screenplay winning the National Film Award.”

Also, they listed significant works by Arundhati Roy, including “The God of Small Things,” “The Algebra of Infinite Justice,” and “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.”

It is important to note that Arundhati Roy is known for being a left-wing extremism and an Islamic terror apologist peddling anti-Hindu narratives. Her book, Walking with the Comrades, is an account of the face-off between Maoists and the Indian government. It deliberately supports the Maoists’ receiving weapons training.

In light of this, the Amar Chitra Katha Studio’s Facebook post received severe backlash for praising a left-wing extremist author and was widely shared on social media. As the Facebook post went viral, Amar Chitra Katha Studio was forced to issue a clarification on May 1st, in which it attempted to distance itself from the controversial writer Arundhati Roy.

The clarification read, “Over the last few months we have been showcasing famous artists, musicians, poets and writers (like Amrita Shergil, Anita Desai, Khushwant Singh, Satish Gujral etc.) from India in a series of social media posts. The post about writer Arundhati Roy was just one in this series about Indian writers.”

They went on to say, “We wish to clarify that we have never planned to create a book or collaborate with Arundhati Roy in any way, whatsoever. Furthermore, we do not endorse the political views of any of the people featured in our books, blogs or social media posts. Our mission has always been and will always be to provide Indian children with a route to their roots. We thank our readers for their support and urge them to check out our new titles at a bookstore or on the ACK Comics app.”

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(With inputs from OpIndia)

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Manonmaniam Sundaranar University located in Tirunelvi, Tamil Nadu has withdrawn controversial author Arundhati Roy’s book ‘Walking with the Comrades’ after objections raised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student organization part of the larger Sangh Parivar.

The ABVP in its letter said “MSU is an important institution where innumerable scholars and intellectuals have studied. Arundhati Roy’s book ‘Walking with the Comrades’ has been included in the syllabus for MA English (third semester), as part of Unit V (commonwealth literature). This is about the arms training given to the Maoists, who are considered as anti-nationals. It is highly regrettable that this book has been in the syllabus for the past three years. All these years Maoists thoughts and ideologies have been taught to the young students. The book instils anti-national sentiments in young fertile minds and encourages terrorism. We urge the MSU to condemn the inclusion of this book and withdraw the book immediately. The people behind this ulterior move should be asked to apologise. We will organise protests if it is not withdrawn from the curriculum.”

The Vice Chancellor K Pitchumani had formed a committee after they received complaints from ABVP organizers last week. The committee comprising of academic deans and board of studies members decided to withdraw the book as they agreed that it may be inappropriate to teach a controversial book for students.

The book was made a part of the syllabus by the university in 2017 under the Commonwealth Literature category for BA English language and literature students in the third semester.

It has now been replaced with M Krishnan’s My Native Land: Essays on Nature.

Arundhati Roy is known for being a left-wing extremism and an Islamic terror apologist peddling anti-Hindu narratives. The book, is an account of the face-off between Maoists and the Indian government.

ABVP Dakshin Tamil Nadu joint secretary Vignesh was quoted saying they were shocked to find a book that infused Maoist ideologies and terrorism upon which they had met the Vice Chancellor and requested him to withdraw the book.

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