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Arunhati Roy and her pack of lies
by Rishi Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:19 pm
In a polemical essay in The Hindu on Sunday (here), Arundhati Roy, the head priestess of that myth-making industry, peddles mistruths and hand-picks half-truths to portray Afzal Guru as “a victim of torture, blackmail, extortion.” With characteristic hyperbole, she dismisses the entire body of evidence against Afzal Guru (which the Supreme Court had considered and, after due application of mind, pronounced verdict on) as a “pile up of lies and fabricated evidence.”
It would have been immensely gratifying to rip Arundhati Roy’s argument to shreds, but I’ve been spared that exertion (and denied the pleasure!) because Praveen Swami has, in his response today (here), done a masterly job of it. Roy has, as Swami points out, built her case around “what can, at best, be described as parts of the evidence, cherry-picked for polemical effect.” Additionally, she is guilty of ” censoring… facts that sit ill with her account” – that during the trial phase, the judicial system was blind to Afzal Guru’s legal rights.
Arundhati Roy also peddles the myth that the Indian government recalled its Ambassador from Pakistan and mobilised half a million soldiers to the Pakistan border “based only on Afzal’s confession.” In fact, as Swami points out, there is a fairly persuasive body of evidence to establish just who carried out the attack on the Indian parliament – and why. The fact that it was the Jaish-e-Muhammmad that, operating under Pakistan’s ISI, that carried out the attack was well-known even then – and validated by the testimony of, among others, a former ISI chief.
Swami concludes that “the ground beneath Ms Roy’s seismic claims… is shaky – to say the least.”
http://www.firstpost.com/india/the-myth-making-industry-around-afzal-gurus-execution-620176.html
It would have been immensely gratifying to rip Arundhati Roy’s argument to shreds, but I’ve been spared that exertion (and denied the pleasure!) because Praveen Swami has, in his response today (here), done a masterly job of it. Roy has, as Swami points out, built her case around “what can, at best, be described as parts of the evidence, cherry-picked for polemical effect.” Additionally, she is guilty of ” censoring… facts that sit ill with her account” – that during the trial phase, the judicial system was blind to Afzal Guru’s legal rights.
Arundhati Roy also peddles the myth that the Indian government recalled its Ambassador from Pakistan and mobilised half a million soldiers to the Pakistan border “based only on Afzal’s confession.” In fact, as Swami points out, there is a fairly persuasive body of evidence to establish just who carried out the attack on the Indian parliament – and why. The fact that it was the Jaish-e-Muhammmad that, operating under Pakistan’s ISI, that carried out the attack was well-known even then – and validated by the testimony of, among others, a former ISI chief.
Swami concludes that “the ground beneath Ms Roy’s seismic claims… is shaky – to say the least.”
http://www.firstpost.com/india/the-myth-making-industry-around-afzal-gurus-execution-620176.html
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