“CUTTING LOOSE”
BRAINY CELEBRITIES
GONE SLUMMING!
BRAINY CELEBRITIES
GONE SLUMMING!
ALSO RELATED: 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter: "PEOPLE DO NOT FORGET. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: THEY ALSO STRIKE BACK." -
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AND HERE'S ANOTHER WELL KNOWN AUTHOR:
Published on Monday, January 16, 2006 by the Bangalore Deccan Herald < http://www.deccanherald.com/>/India
Sahitya Akademi Award:
Arundhati Roy Rejects Honor
Celebrated writer Arundhati Roy on Saturday refused to accept the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in protest against the Indian Government toeing the US line by "violently and ruthlessly pursuing policies of brutalisation of industrial workers, increasing militarisation and economic neo-liberalisation".
NOVELIST ARUNDHATI ROY HAS TURNED DOWN A NATIONAL AWARD FROM INDIA'S ACADEMY OF LETTERS BECAUSE SHE OPPOSES THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICIES.
AFP/File/Rob Elliott - The jury of Sahitya Akademi last week chose her book, The Algebra of Infinite Justice, a collection of political essays, for the 2005 literary award. “I have a great deal of respect for the Sahitya Akademi, for the members of this year's Jury and for many of the writers who have received these awards in the past. But to register my protest and reaffirm my disagreement ‹ indeed my absolute disgust ‹ with these policies of the Indian Government, I must refuse to accept the 2005 Sahtiya Akademi Award”, Arundhati said in a statement here.
“These essays written between 1998 and 2001 are deeply critical of some of the major policies of the Indian State”, she said. The main area of her disgreement included the government policies of constructing big dams, pursuing nuclear weapons, increasing militarization and economic liberalization.
EVEN TODAY THIS GOVERNMENT "SHOWS A CONTINUING COMMITMENT TO THESE POLICES AND IS CLEARLY PREPARED TO IMPLEMENT THEM RUTHLESSLY AND VIOLENTLY," WHATEVER THE COST, SHE SAID.
Further she noted that in the last few months, apart from the growing number of farmers' suicide and the forcible eviction of people from their lands, the country had witnessed the police brutalisation of industrial workers in Gurgaon, killing 12 protesting against a dam in Manipur and the killing of another dozen people protesting their displacement by a steel plant in Orissa.
“Even as we call ourselves a democracy, Indian security forces control and administer Kashmir, Manipur and Nagaland and the numbers of the dead and disappeared continue to mount”, she said.
The Algebra of Infinite Justice is also critical of US foreign policy, particularly in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington. “This present government, too, has seen it fit to declare itself an ally of the US, thereby condoning the American invasion of Afghanistan and the illegal occupation of Iraq, which, under the Nuremburg principles, constitutes the supreme crime of a war of aggression”, Arundhati added.
Sahitya Akademi Award: Arundhati Roy Rejects Honor:
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FPF / Related Endnotes:
* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - 'The Demonic Cabal - (excellent article!) Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bvtvd
* MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/
* One of the best videos made: British MP George Galloway has told US senators who accused him of profiting from Iraq oil dealings their claims were the "mother of all smokescreens". - Full testimony in transcript and a video which is a great pleasure to watch, seeing Galloway sweep the floor with neocon rat Coleman - 47 Minutes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chwyq
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.: http://www.genevaconventions.org/
* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi (It.) Balkenende (NL) - their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.: http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/
* Wayne Madsen - ''The neo-cons have done to the U.S. Intelligence Community what Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. America has never been weaker. Rather than creating a "New American Century," the neo-cons have created a new global "Dark Age" of fear and constant war.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bj754
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* NWO letter: ''we can cancel your credit or freeze your accounts'' - Url. http://tinyurl.com/cjo7l
* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [ http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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