Arundhati Roy

Some people are born foolish some achieve foolishness while some are such that have greatness thrust upon their foolishness. The great Big Mouth of India- unfortunately a winner of the Booker and the author of the most ridiculous best seller of the recent years- The God of Small Things, who somehow managed to complete a piece of fiction which could have been classed as something poorly written by the pseudo novelists like Khushwant Singh and Shobha Dey. Well. Destiny rules supreme and the novel, despite limited readability was a great success and a mediocre woman of letters suddenly became a super star in the horizon of Indo- Anglican literature. It seemed that the fool with the veneer of greatness, imported by the so called First and Third World, has the realization of the her own foolishness and the success coming to her as a master stroke of chance. She denied the possibility of any second novel that might expose her literary hypocrisy.

But something she had to do.

Yes. She knows that media forgets everything very soon. She took Maneka Gandhi as the ideal and embarked on the path of pseudo social services. The Fourth Estate embraced her half halfheartedly and she succeeded in what she thought to the most achievable of all. In due course of time she made a visit to the USA and later she fought against the Government for N number of causes; some acceptable while some as ridiculous as her novel. but she continued to poke her nose everywhere and earned the marks of vow. Literature was reduced to an act of seeking name in the head lights and amassing crowd. The foolishness inherent in all her endeavors remained blocked. Our media continued to take her as an intellectual and she was remained blessed with the ultimate.

Well as a story goes a fox disguised as a tiger, is instructed not to speak but he fails to contain himself and starts with the bark and then in turn recognized as what he is. Arundhati is the same fox wth illusion of being an intellectual but when she opened her mouth on Kashmir issue, it became clear that she is actually a fox with the thick skin of a tiger.

What Arundhati said is too meaningless to mention.Hope the country(specially the Fourth Estate will some come to understand that she is just a fox not a tiger.