From an interview with
Arundhati Roy on
IBN entitled "Indian democracy in a state of emergency".
Arundhati Roy: We call ourselves a democracy but as a society we tolerate the 68,000 dead in Kashmir, we tolerate deeply undemocratic laws like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, we had the Sikh genocide and what happened in Gujarat, all of these things I question.
Karan Thapar: And the Prime Minister apologised for what happened to the Sikhs, Sonia Gandhi visited the Golden Temple.
Arundhati Roy: Would it be enough for you Karan, if someone killed your parents and raped your wife and the Prime Minister apologises?
Karan Thapar: The Chinese haven't apologised for the Tiananmen Square.
Arundhati Roy: It doesn't matter. The point is when we accept these kinds of injustices and absorb them and the Government thinks by apologising or dissimulating it's over, but they all settle in us like toxins and we become a pretty barbaric society. (Link)
3 comments:
Its Educated people like Arundhati only who can help our Mindsets...otherwise .........these Genocides will keep on happening..
Well said Arundhati!!!!!!!!
and the real apology would have been punishing those who were involved but instead of punishment they were rewarded with all high ranks and powers. The Sikhs did not suffer for 3 days but its been 26 years they have been suffering and somebody is just trying to APOLOGISE. Had it been some autocratic country the meaning of an apology would have been a death sentence.
I can't believe Thapar said that an apology was sufficient, rather than the obvious statement that would stare any moral being in the face, "The perpetrators of the violence are free men today!"
Few years from now, someone will apologize for Gujarat and all will be good :)
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