Arundhati Roy is scheduled to give the Edward Said Memorial Lecture on 5th of March 2012, at Princeton University at 5.00 pm. The lecture is sponsored by the English Department.
Please contact the university regarding availability of seats if you would like to attend.
Please contact the university regarding availability of seats if you would like to attend.
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ReplyDeleteThe Arundhati Roy talk last night was wonderful! She eloquently described the madness that was going on in India and around the world, and spelled out the many dystopic realities surrounding us, and I felt very sad. Genocide, selfishness, greed, indifference, violence, hatred, and so much ugliness surrounds us. And yet we dwell in such great beauty as well. It is a challenge every day to live with an open heart.
ReplyDeleteHer talk inspired this poem in me:
He built a tower out of the bones
of the poor and indigenous people
He thought the white was purer
if they died in pain
and so devised intricate means of torture
paying the best and brightest minds royally
to invent innovative ways
to prolong and intensify the pain
Whole populations raped, pillaged, razed
To create a tower that stretches into the sky
To rival the reach of the gods
To pad his own ego
To add to the illusion of his immortality
But death is inevitable for us all
What do you want to hold near to you
As you go on this journey
What memories, what loves, what accomplishments
Think carefully, my friend
Your tower may be tall, but
Life is short.
I would like to listen to her talk - that can only happen if she comes to this part of the world - Malaysia or Singapore, perhaps even Cambodia. There is such depth in the way she uses words to evoke feelings that have lain dormant in us, words that strike a cord in our hearts.
ReplyDeletesiva prasanna Krishnan
Ma'am I am a student of class 8th and I got a project to choose a women achiever , read a novel written by her . I got the information from wikipedia and read your novel The God of Small Things and wrote its summary . But I have to mention some events taken place around the world for the author . I didn't get any . Could you give me some ........ Please , give it soon .... I have to complete my project in two days ...... PLEASE !!!!!!!!
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