This dreadful woman is a product of Lawrence School. She is hero-worshipped as the winner of the Booker Prize for her novel ‘The God of Small Things’. This prize doesn’t have much credibility but by having a glamorous prize giving ceremony and ensuring a surfeit of publicity, the publishing house, Booker that gives the prize makes it lucrative for itself as well as the author. Reality is that the novel is rubbish. I did nor read it nor would I even if I were paid to do so.
One opinion went as follows: In 1997, the decision to award Arundhati Roy‘s The God of Small Things proved controversial. Carmen Callil, chair of the previous year’s Booker judges, called it an “execrable” book and said on television that it should not even have been on the shortlist. Booker Prize chairman Martyn Goff said Roy won because nobody objected, following the rejection by the judges of Bernard MacLaverty‘s shortlisted book due to their dismissal of him as “a wonderful short-story writer and that Grace Notes was three short stories strung together.” Carmen Callil, the founder of Virago Press would be an ideal person to judge! The word execrable means ‘Extremely bad or unpleasant’.
My decision not to read the book was based on the following review published in the British Satirical Magazine ‘Private Eye’ on the 31 October 1997: This is a copy of the page I read.
Here is a photo of the President’s Medal Winners board from Lawrence School, Lovedale, Susan Arundhati Roy being the winner in 1976. In those days she was known as Suzy Roy. She adopted the first name Arundhati only after she left school, thinking it would be politically expedient!
Author Arundhati Roy was a Cannes jury member for the festival’s 2000 edition, based on the Booker prize received!
Roy’s standard of English is nowhere near as high as that of say, Salman Rushdie. Rushdie’s books are used as text books in British schools. Nobody in their right mind would use Roy’s book as a text book! Further, she has lived on the royalties for years and only recently wrote another book which I will not mention and give publicity to what is bound to be dreadful! She acquired a reputation for being controversial but there was never ever any credibility that could be attributed to her. She said, for example, that the Pakistani Army never attacked its own people. Really? which Army was in East Pakistan butchering the Bengalis who were citizens of Pakistan? Nobody attacked the Balochis? The Pashtuns? Another gem from her was to say that the Rafale was an Aircraft Carrier!
Here is Roy claiming India is at war with its own people.
Like a limpet mine, she attaches herself to every anti-Government cause going and the more controversial she can make herself appear, the more lucrative in terms of sponsored trips to various exotic spots within and without India! There is no other substance to her!
Here are some opinions about her with which I agree entirely:
‘that shrill vixen, Arundhati Roy. While Arundhati Roy buries you under the dung-hill of her efforted prose, brewing outlandish fiction in her columns about current affairs….’
‘Roy and xxxxx have fans and admirers is not a reflection of them but a revelation of the destruction of education.’
‘Roy is an unhinged Maoist “intellectual” available on a rental basis….’
‘…..you can turn off the TV or radio or YouTube each time you hear Arundhati Roy’s voice…..’.
Quote: It truly defies belief when we recall the fact that Aman ki Asha was launched just two years after 26/11. Dilip Padgaonkar, Kuldip Nayar, Arundhati Roy, and Gautam Navlakha were among its leading lights with folks like Barkha Dutt providing cover fire. It is now an open secret that all of them are on the payroll of powerful global breaking-India forces cloaked as NGOs and “civil society organisations.” At various points, Aman ki Asha events were graced and patronized by the foul-mouthed Mani Shankar Aiyar, Salman Haidar, Shoma Choudhury, and Kabir Bedi. The consequence of this narrative, that Pakistan=India has led to the softening of the Hindu psyche against the constant threat of Jihad emanating from next door. The softening was done by incessantly hammering the mantra of “peace,” aman. Enough said.
Arundhati Roy was described as luminously beautiful by programme presenter Kirsty Wark when she made an appearance in BBC’s Desert Island Disks. I happened to be listening to the programme at the time. It would have been more accurate to describe her as Medusa or Gorgo from Greek Mythology particularly the description ‘In Greek mythology, Medusa also called Gorgo, was one of the three monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair.’
Here are examples of the dreadful anti-India articles she authors:
The Battle to Save India Has to Be Waged By Every Single One of Us
Roy advocates one term only for PM
Aatish Taseer’s opinion of Roy
Below is a photo of Arundhati Roy with the notorious Nitasha Kaul who was thrown out of India
In 1967, a school called, in those days, Corpus Christi, now known as Pallikoodam, was established by Mary Roy, mother of the notorious Arundhati Roy. And the President of that School as of the date of this Page? Kalli Jacob, Lovedale’s greatest ever bully! A popular subject in that school may well be ‘How to get away with bullying ‘!
Radhika Vaz
This is meant to be funny; what a nasty piece of work
RAW Agent Ravi Nair
I knew this character well as he was just a year below me.
Astonishingly, many years after he left School, he was invited to an Old Lawrencians Meet and instead of enjoying the bonhomie and mixing with friends he threatened all the Old Lawrencians with arrest! The reason? He wanted to prove he could do this and nobody would say a word! The fool was eventually dismissed from the Service!