Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy interview (1997)

Authors Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Barbara Crossette reflect on the 50th anniversary of India's independence and its cultural and political climate today.

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[roshankaul]

Evocative!
“There is romance about India. There is mystery about India. There is for all the poverty, for all the pain, for all the violence, something that makes it different—-Grace.”

[shubhanshujain]

What is the freedom of expression without the freedom to offend?
Salman Rushdie

[NidzShah-pskr]

Arundhati and Salman both describe 2 Indias that are very much a reality and coexist with each other even in real time. Understanding both is very very important. I hope we Indians can get over this tryst with nationalism and embrace dissent in all it's forms :)

[okay]

Arundhati:it's so scary that there is a line that one cannot cross. Salman Rushdie: l intend to cross all the lines.😆❤️❤️❤️

[veiledrebecca]

An erudite Salman Rushdie speaking in the 50th year of Independence. Please get well soon Sir and enlighten us with your take on the 75th year of Independent India.

[MJ-nzys]

This Interview brings back a lot of memory of my teenage hood.

[mn-mjgi]

They're so differently alike, it's beautiful to listen to.

[kurapatichaitanya]

Salman Rushdie is our hero we need. We should protect him at all cost

[mainukalita]

wow.loved it.to hear about India in 3 dif perspectives.v enduring.

[adityashankar]

20 years down the line since this interview came and we are still fighting and shelling bullets, violating ceasefires while still shaking hands like hypocrites at diplomatic meetings. Sad

[confusedsoul]

That year I was born, I find blissful to know India was forward thinking that time as we had such great writers that time. Healthy and honest discussion which seem rarely now. It has been cornered somewhere behind noise of arnab goswami

[askaichin]

One interesting observation. Arundhati comes across strikingly more original in thought than anyone on the table here. Breath of fresh air as they say.

[rohanron]

This might be the best interview of Rushdie ever been🖤🖤🖤🖤

[samt]

18:30 "There is a language crisis in India... There are a lot of Indians who can't speak any language properly". 👍 True!

[hussainoid]

Arundhati is passionate (and optimistic, as naive people like to call her a pessimist) about India in ways that an average subscriber of a radical ideology simply cannot comprehend. She speaks from a level of depth and detail that they can never know even exists. And she is apprehensive about India in ways that they will never choose to acknowledge.
Yes, India is an intact marriage.

[robinsen]

Interesting point Roy makes about concentrating on primary education, even if it is more difficult to say, as she does, primary education rather than higher education.

[manjulaadappa]

I second Arundathi Roys view about the most unique feature of indians " The depth of a Of standing by each other through thick & thin, the deep sense of commitment.... " For better or for worse"... ... a la "Romeo & Juliet"... which in the modern world is old fashioned, but to the indian is emotionally rewarding!

[nazmussaquib]

I am reading the comments - and realized that once mostly privileged people had access to the internet. If if you can't see the sense of entitlement two white people have shown in this conversation, and did not realize that only Arundhati Roy is talking about the people in India - it means you belong to the upper caste/ruling class/or neo -rich from corrupt capitalism. She was talking about "tribalism" in 1997 and foreign affairs were magazine talking about after "trump". So, the privileged class ignored the plight of people as long as the rupture becomes inconvenient.

[priyanshishukla]

If one can ignore the 1997 in the video title and the technical aspects which age this video it's absolutely impossible to believe it's a 25 year old conversation. At least Roy 's points hold water even today. Only the burning issues have become a wildfire now.