A Short Review based on Arundhati Roy's Article "The Trickledown Revolution"

Some thing on Ms. A Roy's article. She mixes realities and fantasies so well with her easy command in the language one might get lost the wood for the trees. The long Outlook article was answered by several eminent ones I cannot better on them. She tries to pretend that she is on the side of the suppressed and repressed tribals and exactly on the defense of Maoists. Her article is full of such ambiguities. It will be tiresome to quote all of them. However her jibs at the PM and Sonia & Rahul were of poo taste. Her discovery that Man Mohan Singh is an appointee of World Bank & IMF is in the nature of maligning the PM. But we could expect that from her who described the Indian State as the Corporate Hindu satellite State. She was talking about the constitution as not being followed by the states. This is too puzzling if you consider the fact that such a constitution was drafted by an assembly elected on limited franchise not universal. That gift came to the people from the same constitution. At that time the CPI led by B.T.Ranadive termed the the Indian State as not independent but a tail of British imperialism. It is such a state that formulated and passed the Indian Constitution which Ms.Roy wanted to be implemented. She is in full opposition and scones the government elected by majority votes. She is abusive of the administration for its excesses and corruption. At the same she is against all private enterprises that the economic development brings. The former Soviet Union imploded due to public sector dominated economy among other reasons. Once it was styled as proletarian dictatorship then called itself proletarian democracy with socialist content. After 2nd world war the countries that came under the Soviet Union named themselves Peoples' Democracy the same that is touted by the Chinese State. Even according to Roy China is capitalist. I hope you might have viewed Fidel Castro the generator of Cuban Revolution now talking that the Cuban model is flawed. The latest news is that about 500,000 workers will be will become unemployed in that country as the state is trying to encourage small individual enterprises. (CNN)
With all such background it is not surprising that she dislikes all communist formations in India. She never looks back that she is contradicting herself in so many ways. (She tried to answer B.G.Verghese with a quote from Maoist Azad but failed to say that Azad has not disclaimed his leadership role in the party.) She has praised Charu Muzumdar who started the Naxalbari uprising did not quote him on his views about how to bring out a conspiratorial apparatus to organise a peoples militia and annihilate the class enemies physically. The class enemies in India might number about 50% of the population. She did not show any sympathy towards of naxal killings of innocent children and civilians in the last few months. They are collateral damage in a "civil war". The former US president also used the same reasoning in his starting war in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I stop here and say that I vehemently disagree with her outdated dogmas.

By K.N. Krishnan