tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post944714252537983909..comments2023-09-27T05:04:16.551-07:00Comments on Frog Books: Whine and DineFrog Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16766139675947704294noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-91836304441305888162009-10-05T09:52:22.762-07:002009-10-05T09:52:22.762-07:00Is this a book review or an opinion on Roy?Is this a book review or an opinion on Roy?Ipshitanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-5169725620521385542009-08-26T00:37:56.118-07:002009-08-26T00:37:56.118-07:00I have always found Poolani's posts quite read...I have always found Poolani's posts quite readable. I'm returning to this blog after quite some time, and as before, I liked this post too.<br />I agree with the comment that it is fashionable to criticise Roy. Of course, we are free to dislike her for many of her actions, including her extremely loud protests.mphttp://blogsurf.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-488352928245641912009-08-20T09:38:20.102-07:002009-08-20T09:38:20.102-07:00You gave both sides of her. She'll like it.
--...You gave both sides of her. She'll like it.<br />-- Dilip Raote (dlplowlife@gmail.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-15757840157494120232009-08-18T07:46:55.186-07:002009-08-18T07:46:55.186-07:00Great analysis!
-- Sachin GargGreat analysis!<br />-- Sachin GargAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-30590089983488252452009-08-18T07:46:34.695-07:002009-08-18T07:46:34.695-07:00Bit of a sinnic sunil.I preferred 'Im the Bell...Bit of a sinnic sunil.I preferred 'Im the Belly of the Beast' meself.<br />-- Peter HandleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-1925610960587127262009-08-18T07:46:15.074-07:002009-08-18T07:46:15.074-07:00Your review comes through with deep understanding ...Your review comes through with deep understanding & insight into the mind of Roy...... as she is. Many thanks .Looking forward to an interesting read!<br />-- Anuradha MukherjeeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-71989983861022398742009-08-18T07:46:00.154-07:002009-08-18T07:46:00.154-07:00I like this article and your views!
-- Shivani Kha...I like this article and your views!<br />-- Shivani KhareAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-63392657461883816872009-08-18T07:45:42.494-07:002009-08-18T07:45:42.494-07:00So Sunil...You should pitch some of these books my...So Sunil...You should pitch some of these books my way. <br />Your examinations of these writers are incredible.<br />I could learn a lot from this writer. As i am, from reading your reviews.<br />-- Susan SmithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-87672452795413249152009-08-18T07:45:21.751-07:002009-08-18T07:45:21.751-07:00An adroitly written review.
-- Priti AisolaAn adroitly written review.<br />-- Priti AisolaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-67139921580585402042009-08-18T07:45:04.696-07:002009-08-18T07:45:04.696-07:00I am an agnostic. I don't hold any brief for M...I am an agnostic. I don't hold any brief for Modi or others.I hate all religions.But facts are sacred...There was this article or ,should I say, the rave and rant, by the honorable lady, they are all honorable, you know, about post Godhra riots, in the Outlook..She gave a lurid account of the rapes of sisters of a prominent Congress leader, by her bete noire, the Hindutva brigade, or whatever she chooses to cal Hindus,l depending on her hatred level of the moment. When it was proved that the rapes were all imaginary, as attested by the Congress leader himself, did the lady have basic coutesy to apologise? No sir, to date there has been no apology by either the lady herself or the esteemed editor! But for some lame apologetic sounding sounds and obfuscation which is rubbing salt on the wound!The lady has no credibility! As for her exhortation'Give Kashmir to Pakistan'!, what can I say, but that it is beneath contempt.<br />-- K.Niranjan SharmaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-85369756295607031792009-08-18T07:44:41.472-07:002009-08-18T07:44:41.472-07:00Hey Sunil ... Good for you! I love the way Arundha...Hey Sunil ... Good for you! I love the way Arundhati Roy writes ... we were in school together ...<br />-- Saaz AggarwalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-14623613326860646522009-08-18T07:36:16.818-07:002009-08-18T07:36:16.818-07:00I agree with Mira Desai. Roy lacks depth. She brea...I agree with Mira Desai. Roy lacks depth. She breast-beats. Wails. And gets away with hysterical shrill rants in place of balanced informed debate. By this she can spoil the case! She can invoke emotional responses as she weilds a powerful pen. If you are talking about writing (not her Booker novel please) she can touch headless hearts. If about analysis based on objective information, sorry. When it is necessary to touch hearts, she scores. But what the heck! Any convent educated girl could quote that poem too that she used in her by now (in)famous piece: The greater common good. "If all the trees were one tree ......" I do not know which of her articles are in this collection though. And dont know enough to judge her intentions - let me, as just the average reader, give her the benefit of the doubt and think she is genuine in her concerns. Afterall, we are so many Indians who can write too instead of being silent spectators, but have we done it? I didn't for one. And to that extent I'm ashamed.<br />-- Uma Chandrasekaran (uma.chandrasekaran@gmail.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-13640070454317428932009-08-18T06:41:50.174-07:002009-08-18T06:41:50.174-07:00You need to check also the antecedents of the Godh...You need to check also the antecedents of the Godhra-ites.A train was burnt with vengeance, or was it not? Were the crowds in A'bad angry and itching for revenge or were they not? <br /><br />I refer you to Morarji Desai's account in his autobiography, of his stint as collector in Godhra, that town has rumbunctious minority trouble makers like it or not.<br /><br />I abhor Modi, Togadia and the bunch.<br /><br />But tell me why the minority in Gujarat doesn't make any effort to integrate in the mainstream the way it does in Maharashtra?<br /><br />Kindly check your economics- in a state with not great soil quality or rain, the majority in Gujarat lives in a much better state than their equivalent elsewhere. Check the gram panchayat level quality of administration and then crib.<br /><br />Do no other states have interreligious flare ups and problems? Really? Why has no other issue been given these demonical dimensions since 2002?<br /><br />Someone who plays up an incident for personal gain is playing to the gallery and is a rabble rouser. I stand by that. <br />-- Mira Desai (miradesai@gmail.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-73024662714419487892009-08-18T06:25:55.519-07:002009-08-18T06:25:55.519-07:00by saying your "state" you mean, just a ...by saying your "state" you mean, just a bunch of merchants and industrialists? what about the majority 80-5 per cent in the state who still live in abject poverty. yes they do run your state and you have got an apt, autocratic head to run it too. you call Roy rabble-rouser, then who is Modi? or the cancerous Togadia? remember on thing, after the state-sponsored Gujarat pogrom, every indian state and its leaders took on Gujarat, except of course spineless and money-minded banias and hindutwavadis of Gujarat. and you object of Gujaratis being shunted out of Uganda by Idi Amin...<br />-- Sunil K PoolaniFrog Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16766139675947704294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-82379503979774164112009-08-18T06:19:26.260-07:002009-08-18T06:19:26.260-07:00She has made tons of sound bytes off my state, ble...She has made tons of sound bytes off my state, bleated about it to the hilt, and I can't stand that.<br />Rabble-rouser, that's what she is.<br />-- Mira Desai (miradesai@gmail.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-17661714539017311262009-08-18T06:18:39.542-07:002009-08-18T06:18:39.542-07:00why guys?
is this because it has become fashionabl...why guys?<br />is this because it has become fashionable to criticise Roy?<br />but truth and evidence should be acknowledged and that is what i did<br />well<br />what to say?Frog Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16766139675947704294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-60453740823320170872009-08-18T06:13:03.370-07:002009-08-18T06:13:03.370-07:00I don't like her.
Playing to the hustings and ...I don't like her.<br />Playing to the hustings and building up her own case.<br />-- Mira Desai (miradesai@gmail.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353371.post-715947551301229592009-08-18T06:12:21.454-07:002009-08-18T06:12:21.454-07:00Good. she'll like it.
-- Dilip Raote (dlplowli...Good. she'll like it.<br />-- Dilip Raote (dlplowlife@gmail.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com