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Fiction in the time of fake news

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The Muslim graveyard, the kabristan, is a ghetto of the new Hindu India—and Kashmir, covered with graveyards
after thirty years of war, is almost a graveyard itself. Only in fiction can the graveyards talk back.

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Krishnendu Ms Roy, rarest free voice from India. Enormous talent and bravery can always be
Bhattacharyya found in her speeches/writings. You may have difficulty accepting her opinions, but
08 Mar, 2020 her creative mind cannot be ignored.

Shivam Vishnu TL, DR gave up halfway.

25 Feb, 2020 One angry self-righteous, delusional, pompous lady who seems to be afflicted with
verbal diarrhea.
She will barely register with the right anyway but the way she goes hammer and
tongs at what is left of communists, liberals and right leaning Dalits means that she
will be able to sell her rotten ideas only to a very thin liberal elite who are essentially
her clones in every way.
Just like other out-of-touch liberals she goes on and on about the trials and
tribulations of various minorities but barely has a word for the troubles of the
majority. In her worldview, the majority has nothing better to do than come up with
increasingly vile schemes to persecute minorities, that they have it easy and don't
face the same issues of discrimination, unemployment, poverty and deprivation.
There can be no suffering for Hindus because they are the majority!! She is just a
mirror image of the same right wing that she despises so much. For someone
deriding hatred so much, she is the personification of hatred for all things Hindu.
According to her, the only lived experience of a Hindu is that of castes. She has no
use for Hindu spiritual practices, philosophy, art, dance and music - she only cares for
outrage and anger. She will forever equate castes with Hinduism but she will never
equate Christianity/Islam with slave trade, colonialism, racism, pervasive misogyny,
documented genocide of natives of Americas and general cultural degradation of any
land they took over.
The more she talks the more the Hindu right will expand its membership. She is their
greatest recruiter.

Bashy Quraishy Dear Ms. Roy

22 Feb, 2020 As usual, your lecture - that you could not deliver in person - is an eye opener for
those who are still negating the BJP oppressive methods against minorities and
especially its clampdown in Kashmir.
You are the voice of real India of humanity and compassion as well as inter-
culturalism.
Stay blessed.

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