Dear Arundathi Roy, "Will the 830 million people living on Rs.20 a day really benefit from the strengthening of a set of policies that is impoverishing them and driving this country to civil war?"
You could say that the Maoists and the Jan Lokpal Bill have one thing in common — they both seek the overthrow of the Indian State. "
So if someone fights for a strong anti-corruption bill does it mean they seek to overthrow the state?
"The 24-hour channels have decided that there is no other news in the country worth reporting.
"Why blame the media??? They are covering what the nation is voicing. Didnt the media give coverage to the causes you fought for, or is it because you didnt get the kind of coverage that Anna is getting. "Who is he really, this new saint, this Voice of the People? Oddly enough we've heard him say nothing about things of urgent concern. Nothing about the farmer's suicides in his neighbourhood, or about Operation Green Hunt further away. Nothing about Singur, Nandigram, Lalgarh, nothing about Posco, about farmer's agitations or the blight of SEZs. He doesn't seem to have a view about the Government's plans to deploy the Indian Army in the forests of Central India." Why do you expect or want Anna Hazare to voice his concern for everything? "The Jan Lokpal Bill is a draconian, anti-corruption law, in which a panel of carefully chosen people will administer a giant bureaucracy, with thousands of employees, with the power to police everybody from the Prime Minister, the judiciary, members of Parliament, and all of the bureaucracy, down to the lowest government official. The Lokpal will have the powers of investigation, surveillance, and prosecution. Except for the fact that it won't have its own prisons, it will function as an independent administration, meant to counter the bloated, unaccountable, corrupt one that we already have. Two oligarchies, instead of just one." How does having an independent anti-corruption body account to oligarchy? There are many causes you have raised your voice for including separating Kashmir from India, India's Nuclear policy and even favored Naxals fight. While people respected you for whatever you fought in a peaceful manner irrespective of whether we agreed with you or not, why can't you give Anna the respect for a cause he is fighting against? Why do you want to sully his image? Does God of small things have a small mind or has she been sold for small things.
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