The Assault on Meaning: Arundhati Roy at Kolkata People's Film Festival 2024
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024
- The Assault on Meaning: The Challenges of being a Writer Today. Writer Arundhati Roy in a keynote conversation moderated by Kasturi Basu, at the 10th edition of the Kolkata People's Film Festival. KPFF 2024. The festival, organised by the People's Film Collective, was held at Uttam Mancha, Kolkata, during 24-28 January 2024.
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I think one of the main reasons she has become a world-famous writer, and a speaker is due to her ability to express her innermost feeling in a very slow and pleasant manner. Even when she is reading her writing full of scathing and piercing phrases but at the same time lyrical, the pleasantness never escapes her ever present dignified calming expression. She never rushes, always thinks, waits before coming out with the most appropriate and relevant word. Very few famous writers have this rare confidence in themselves.
@@philipeisenberg6984 Of course I educate myself always. Here is what I know about her: She won "Booker Prize", National Film Award for Best Screenplay, Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award, "Woman of Peace" award at the Global Exchange Human Rights Awards, "Sydney Peace Price" award, "Orwell Award", "Sahitya Academy Award", "Norman Mailer Prize" etc. She was featured in the 2014 list of Time 100, the hundred most influential people in the world. Would you kindly furnish your accomplishments which I am sure will pale her achievements? I will be waiting to hear from you.
Of course, I try to educate myself always. Here is what I know about her: She won "The Booker Prize", National Film Award for Best Screenplay, Lannan Foundations Cultural Freedom Award, Women of Peace award at the Global Exchange Human Rights, Sydney Peace Prize, Orwell Award, Sahitya Academy Award, Norman Mailer Prize etc. She was in the Time 2014 100 list of most influential people in the world. I am sure your accomplishments will pale her achievements.
I will be waiting to hear your achievements to educate myself @@philipeisenberg6984
Europe is slowly falling into the hands of right wing ideology, while Muslim immigrants don't want to integrate.
Well expressed!
Yes even I have thought how scathing words can come out in a sort of cold measured manner , it as though she is choosing it to be this way, I don’t know whether it’s a quality
Excellent ma'am Roy! Profoundly heartbreaking expoś of this state of affairs today. We all thank you so very much ❤
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface,
we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.
When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age,
we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.
Urban Naxals talking about Fascism is like Stalin vs Hitler😂
Thank you, Arundhati Roy for this thoughtful and fascinating talk. More power to you!
A luminary of India . An enlightened soul. A conscience of the world .
So enlightening so humanising, the danger to freedom and democracy stares in our face.
From Pakistan, a big fan of her work & concern for the world.
If someone is bothered with my apolitical comment, let it be!
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Thank you Arundhati Ma'am for sharing this amazing talk on a topic that is relevant to all. Blessings to you always
Always a pleasure listening to you :))
A very stable personality indeed! I have been following her writings since her novel "The God of Small Things." Always, it is a new experience to read and listen to her speech because of softness, balanced, and outspoken perspective. Lately, it is more refreshing to listen to her because her every word veracious and hence tramped down by the present rulers since 2014. She is among few Indian authors who have not bowed down to the present-day fascist regime.
Her commitment to beauty, in literature, in speech, moral and person is a great inspiration to me.
A woman of great conviction and its Courage and Valiance.
Modi will ch.. in his trousers if he is to debate with this Lady.
Such a wonderful writer...Arundhuti ma'm....kudos to her..loved to watch the session..such brilliance in her writings and such a pure soul...God bless her with a long , peaceful and a happy life..❤🙏🙏
"unless we have some moral grounding, who are we? what kind of a writer can I be if I'm not going to write what I think?" (1:07:33) . . . "the fact that we hope even though we know what's going on, is what makes us wonderful" (1:09:39)
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds,
and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.
And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-----Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956.
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The story continues😢😢
Solzhenitsyn was just a fiction writer, nothing more
I have shed tears at different stages of this programme.My God,this world is so wicked in the very midst of the Holy Bible,Baghavat Gita,Holy Quran.
A world of Shame.
Tears,sobs,laments...
Stimulating and thought provoking.
Terroeist der saathe G A N D marai. Etai ki stimulating?
Overwhelmed mam, by listening you. Thank you.
Best film festival of bengal 👍
excellent talk
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.
One word of truth outweighs the world.”
------ Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Very intelligent. Soooo gorgeous she is
After listening the whole conversation one question came up " Is ignorance a bliss ".
Of course keeping us ignorant is successful fascistic design. But HOW LONG?
Thanks for sharing.
As perfect as ever 💎💕📚💕💎
one thing i understood over the years is, it is always better to directly contact people to understand their issues, anxieties, aspirations etc instead of understanding them through these ideologically driven professors or intellectuals from Left or Right. you sit in an armchair and listen to these guys, its lazy way of understanding & responding to human sensibilities, don't get addicted to intellectual, spiritual or ideological porn videos..!! its your lazy mind's trick which plays on you to sit in a melancholy and do nothing..!!
So go to the trouble spots and understand.
Excellent Mam
Exceptional and beyond the prevailing.
Arundhati is a top class writer and an even better national as Indian. We needn’t be scared of Modi and his louts. We have Arundhati.
Excellent talk
Kolkata can you listen to this?? need the whole thing in bengali , otherwise the people feel excluded, people who matters.
Daughter of democracy.
Independent thinkers or speakers are always criticised by the either side of major opinion as unwanted element. As a matter of fact, any extremity on the either side get balanced in a natural manner sometimes. Accumulated stress find a natural way out to balance, that may not be appreciated by once destructive imbalancers. This is the imbalanced Hinduism may be trying to be balanced. It does not mean Hinduism has gone to the dogs. Though I personally am against this extremity going on but without finding any alternatives.
What do you mean by unwanted opinion. She shares her bed with terr o ists. And says kashmr is not ours.
Im asking you... Kashmr is whos?
Tor ma xhude haate tor bhai dhoriye bolbo its your unwanted thoughts?
Fascinating talk, Madam ! And after a long time, I could hear you! So happy and grateful.
Recently, I have been shocked to see that my favourite author and historian, Youval Noah Harari, has been supporting the assault of Israel on Gaza, as if there is no other option here, and at the same time asking for resignation of Netanyahu ! But same victimhood persists !
Could you please throw some light ? Gratefulness.
Because he is not an ideologically corrupt individual still holding on to left thinking. You need brain to see the facts for yourself. Obviously, Yuval has it and this fake doesn’t.
you are literate that you call her a historian.in fact, she is a Pseudo-Secular and a threat to our country.
Arundathi Roy 🔥❣️💪🏻
Good morning 🌅🌅
Did M Foucault pull up at roys talk lol ? at 1:09:06
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Love you Radha
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Arundhati Roy is a Pride of Bengal and guvendu adhikari is blot of Bengal😂
*pride
She is a Malyali, not Bengali.
@@jeewithbanerjee1160 half Bengali half Malayali.
@@ExploringAngel We are not like Modiji who tries to take the credit of everything. 😄
To all my friends who think that welfare states are different form facisim you guyz are getting fooled. Distributing wealth means concentrating power but the sad thing in every welfare state the latter only takes place
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"Fascism is a religion. " Benito Mussolini, Italian Dictator.
Who is aggressor in your definition? Pakistan which went against the agreement to take part of Kashmir or India who legally agreed to acquire Kashmir.
When Upper caste hold all the high chair and money, Wealth accumation of upper caste who are 5%, have 95% wealth, How do you expect Morality when money dictate and control institutions across India.
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Monotheism (the doctrine or belief that there is only one God) is blamed as the instigator of ignorance, oppression, and violence. Monotheism has been a "totalizing discourse", often co-opting all aspects of a social belief system, resulting in the exclusion of "others". Monotheism is less pluralistic and thus less tolerant than polytheism, because monotheism stipulates that people pigeonhole their beliefs into one tenet. "Monotheism is irreconcilable with the existence in our nature of the instincts of benevolence" because it compels followers to devote themselves to a single Creator. The logic of monotheism ... yields little basis for tolerating other religions". Monotheism anesthetize the sense of wonder as if one were committed to a single line of thought by a cosmic legal contract".
You people forget that that speech, poetry, art do not work against fascist.
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I write because i am paid not to write 😂😂😂😂
In 2024 rss bjp ka Ram naam Satya hoga
Ridiculous comparing India to Israel. Also, why should we protest? We have the job to uplift ourselves and build a better economy. We should not be like South Africa. We should aim to be US or China. People like her want us to always be in protest, running our future.