(from the tipline – thanks JT!)<\/i> This sort of stuff is usually a tad too political for SM BUT, since it’s a desi-writer taking on another desi-writer, I figured it was well within Sepia Mutiny’s posting guidelines \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n
The fact that it’s by a WSJ staff writer I follow from time to time – Tunku Varadarajan<\/a> – & that he provides a BEAUTIFUL skewering of Arundhati Roy<\/a> was merely the icing on the cake –<\/p>\n\n Those are just a few of the plentiful nuggets in a very well written & succinct piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (from the tipline – thanks JT!) This sort of stuff is usually a tad too political for SM BUT, since it’s a desi-writer taking on another desi-writer, I figured it was well within Sepia Mutiny’s posting guidelines \ud83d\ude09 The fact … Continue reading When a friend learned that I was pondering a piece critical of Ms. Roy … he e-mailed me reprovingly to ask whether that would not be a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. But second thoughts can strike at the speed of light. No sooner had he hit the “send” button than he hit it again: “There are certain fish, however, in certain barrels, that cannot be ignored.”<\/b>\n\n…A certain segment of the American intelligentsia connects gleefully with exotic leftists like Ms. Roy. In fact, the Ms. Roys of our age, and their fans and subsidy-givers in the West, enjoy a touching symbiosis. Arundhati Roy, I’d venture to say, is George Soros’s political poster girl.\n\nMs. Roy and her type pay the ultimate compliment to America by holding that all world events occur at America’s behest and that the six billion non-Americans on the planet are but helpless pawns, incapable of doing anything–especially anything bad–without Uncle Sam’s imprimatur.<\/blockquote>\n\n