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Arundhati Roy has managed to annoy the Supreme Court of India, an american commentator and the environmental activist Ms. Medha Patkar all at the same time, a gadfly indeed!

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i have added one line about the controversy regarding her illegal encroachment of protected forest land (with reference)Bharatveer 05:56, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Some information has been changed on this site due to gross amounts of misninformation. I am Ms Roy's cousin and I have made a few amendments to the script regarding her life. I do insist that at no time was she homeless or lived under a "tin roof". Regards, Partha

I have added the references regarding her Contempt cases.Can anyone help in fixing the references??Bharatveer 07:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 abusive text 2 "Accusations of Anti-Americanism" 3 Zora's edits 4 Corpus Christi 5 == support to terrorists? == 6 BharatVeer's RV 7 copyvio 8 "anti-India" criticism section 9 birth year

[edit] abusive text

At the end of the summary/ abstract section I noticed some troll has added the phrase 'rand hain saali', which is rather tasteless and disgraceful. thing is , when i tried to remove this text from the 'edit page' tool, i couldn't find it; yet it appears in the main entry...

Can someone do something about this?

Sam

[edit] "Accusations of Anti-Americanism"

Under the section titled "Accusations of Anti-Americanism", the footnote hyperlinks to a report ostensibly presented before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. That report cites three examples of critics labeling Roy's writings "anti-American": in the Columbia Journalism Review, the New Republic and Mother Jones. However, I could not find the original source of a single one of these examples. In fact, Google searches for these "anti-American" accusations always produce references to the same House Committee report. The author of that report? Stanley Kurtz, a fellow of the conservative Hoover Institution and contributing editor of the conservative National Review Online. I should think that under no circumstances should a piece of think tank agitprop (conservative or liberal) be offered as a source (let alone the sole source) for any Wikipedia entry. If the original examples cited -- in the Columbia Journalism Review, the New Republic or Mother Jones -- do exist, then shouldn't your article hyperlink to those originals? If they do not exist, the entire section -- "Accusations of Anti-Americanism" -- should be deleted, as this one questionable report is the only source for all of the examples cited.--Gdr2634 06:13, 20 August 2006 (UTC)gdr2634

It is said here The Mary Roy has been running a school called corpus christi,but when the link is followed it takes to "Pallikodam".There needs to be a clarification when this renaming ocurred.

Media celebrity Pranoy Roy is said to be a relative of Arundhati Roy.For this citation is needed.--Lakshmanan 06:29, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zora's edits

I noticed that a certain editor had removed some material that I had to agree was POV -- but, he also removed a quote from Roy responding to criticism. I restored the quote, and then tried to make the article as neutral as I possibly could. I don't suppose it will stop being a political football, but ... all we can do is keep trying. Zora 09:11, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

That quote i removed was full of spelling mistakes.I dont agree withyour idea of neutrality as well.-Bharatveer 10:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Look, if the woman is being accused, it's only fair to let her defend herself, spelling mistakes or no. Zora 10:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Corpus Christi

At the top, it says she went to school in corpus christi (ie the city in texas) and in the personal life section, it says she went to a school called corpus christi, run by her mother. which is true? 86.137.111.33 08:59, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

that would be the school... joseph 18:20, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] == support to terrorists? ==

the cited article does not state anything close to the effect of "Roy has also been accused of supporting terrorist and extremist ideologies". in fact, what it does say is this:

The whole case is full of faulty evidence and fabricated stories and to hang someone for something he may not have done is not fair.

that's hardly supporting terrorist and extremist ideologies. i think it should be removed, unless it can be cited by a source that actually DOES show the implication. 192.223.226.6 20:10, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BharatVeer's RV

What is the justification to removing somany formatting changes, new pictures, and lots of rework? If you have a content-dispute please address it. Also if you have not already read it, please see Help:Revert, wikipedias policy on using reverts. --பராசக்தி 07:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Pls read wiki policies regarding this.-Bharatveer 08:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Um, that's not an answer. Zora 09:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

User :Zora , Pls read this - "Wikipedia is not a battleground.Wikipedia is not a place to hold grudges, import personal conflicts, or nurture hatred or fear. Making personal battles out of Wikipedia discussions goes directly against our policies and goals. " - from Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. -Bharatveer 09:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Again, that's not to the point. The point is explaining your revert. Zora 10:45, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I think you got the point there. Regards-Bharatveer 11:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Bharatveer, you have made a large revert without explaination, and as such, it may denote vandalism. Your revert did not, IMHO, enhance the encyclopedia. You're refusing to explain yourself is not helping matters any. --Bhuston 16:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] copyvio

Why is there a copyvio thing on the page? The reasons havent been spelled out either here or on the page. Hornplease 11:34, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "anti-India" criticism section

have removed the following text from the section. while Roy's words are sourced, the charaterisation that that these statements constitute an "anti-India bias" needs to be attributed, o/w it becomes original research. Doldrums 12:01, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Roy has accused India of amassing 7,00,000 troops in the troubled state of Jammu and Kashmir [1]. Her book entitled "The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, is critical of Indian control in Kashmir, Nagaland and Manipur [2]. Many times it is indicated from her statements that she does not have any faith in Indian Judiciary and law; to cite an example, she defended parliamentary bomb accused Afzal by saying that his case is full of false evidence and fabricated stories [3]. She believes that there is no democracy in India and surprisingly she says this to an audience in New York [4].

likewise, this time in the "anti-American" section. Doldrums 14:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Roy criticized US President George Bush's trip to India in March 2006 [5].

have now added it to the advocacy section. Doldrums 08:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] birth year

Roy was born in 1959, according to [6], conflicts with the date in the article. Doldrums 11:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)