The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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India’s clampdown on the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir is entering its third month, and while the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exerted tight control over the flow of information out of the region, a bleak picture has nonetheless emerged. Thousands have been imprisoned, including political leaders. Movement is tightly restricted. Phone lines have been cut off. Modi appears set on ending Jammu and Kashmir’s special semi-autonomous status and bringing it fully under the control of New Delhi, a move which residents of the Muslim-majority region strongly reject. Arundhati Roy, India’s most famous novelist and a passionate voice for Kashmiri self-determination, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the Kashmir crisis and India’s troubling rightward tilt.

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0:00.0	It is a place where you have had people fighting for self-determination for 70 years.
0:07.7	They've been saying it with their blood.
0:09.5	I don't think they could have been clearer.
0:17.6	Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan.
0:20.0	On today's show, we're talking about the crisis in Kashmir,
0:23.0	where millions of people are living effectively under siege right now,
0:26.5	thanks to an Indian government imposed lockdown and communications blackout
0:30.8	that has just entered its third month.
0:33.0	Every single person who has a voice at all has been arrested.
0:38.8	Anybody who dares to speak up is being picked up, anybody on the street.
0:43.2	That's my very special guest today.
0:45.6	Joining me from our home in New Delhi,
0:47.3	the acclaimed award-winning novelist, essayist, activist, environmentalist,
0:52.8	anti-war campaigner, Arundati Roy.
0:55.8	I'll ask her about the bromance between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
0:59.1	and US President Donald Trump,
1:00.8	about why the world doesn't seem to give a damn about the horrific situation in Kashmir,
1:05.0	and about how Kashmiris are trying not just to survive, but to resist.
1:12.4	On August 5th, the government of India
1:14.1	under the Prime Minister's ship of Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi
1:17.3	launched a massive military clamp down in the long-disputed Muslim majority state
1:22.2	of Jammu and Kashmir.
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