Arundhati Roy is quite famous among Indians for her anti-India propaganda and proximity with separatists and terrorists such as Umar Khalid, Yasin Malik, and Syed Ali Shah Geelani, etc. She is known for spewing venom against Hindus and hindu organisations since the Godhra riots. In her latest article written for The Guardian, she targets the Indian Government, specifically Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for his alleged involvement in the spying on many eminent names from the field of politics, journalism, corporate and others. This rebuttal is an attempt to unearth her hidden agenda behind her latest article.
She starts her article with a satire on the death toll caused by the second wave of COVID-19 and calls it the summer of dying. Quickly, she brings in Pegasus and calls the entire fiasco summer of spying. Later on, she questions the Indian Government by quoting an exaggerated death toll of four million, ten times higher than the government data, from a report whose authenticity is yet to be proved independently. Next, she expresses her hatred against Narendra Modi as people thank Modi for providing free COVID-19 jabs.
Her problem is that she wants 100 per cent of the 1.4 billion people to be vaccinated in a jiffy, just like magic. She must know even a tiny country like New Zealand took weeks to vaccinate its population of meagre 5 million. She must know that India vaccinated record numbers (7 million) of people only in a single day in the month of June. India has been administering jabs at a good pace despite being a third world country. Few days back, we became only the second country to administer 500 million vaccines after China. This in itself is enough to prove how well we are doing on the front of administering vaccines on a daily basis. She says:
Here in India, the summer of dying is quickly morphing into what looks very much like a summer of spying. The second wave of coronavirus has retreated, after leaving an estimated 4 million Indians dead. In Narendra Modi’s dystopia, gigantic hoardings appeared on our streets saying “Thank you Modiji”. (An expression of the people’s gratitude-in-advance for the “free vaccine” that remains largely unavailable)
Irked by the Indian media for exposing her anti-India propaganda last time when she spewed venom against Modi in April, she tries to play safe this time and uses the victim card. She writes:
As far as Modi’s government is concerned, any attempt to tabulate the true death toll is a conspiracy against India – as if the millions more who died were simply actors who lay down spitefully in the shallow, mass graves that you saw in aerial photos, or floated themselves into rivers disguised as corpses, or cremated themselves on city sidewalks, motivated solely by the desire to sully India’s international reputation.
When is done with defending herself, she comfortably brings in Pegasus and talks about the leaked data of 1,000 Indians.
India appears to have bought Pegasus spyware developed by NSO Group, an Israeli surveillance firm. The investigating team examined a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers. Analysis showed that more than 1,000 of these were selected by a client of NSO in India.
Later on, she laments about the capability of Pegasus that can dismantle democracies as if this is the first time that a spying tool is being used by a government. She should know that almost all the countries have a spy network to monitor countries it suspects of being inimical. With the change in times, there’s a constant need for updates in technologies used in spying. You just can’t expect a retro era spy technology to keep working in today’s fast-paced world. When Nehru uses spies to monitor Subhash Chandra Bose’s family then democracy is not dismantled. When Indira Gandhi uses spies to monitor political leaders and activists during emergency then democracy is not dismantled. When Indira Gandhi bombs its own citizens then democracy is not dismantled.
Then why does she fear the dismantling of democracy on the utilisation of a spyware that’s allegedly been used over only a few people for their participation in anti-India activities.
Pegasus is capable of dismantling democracies and atomising societies without the bother of red tape – no warrants, no weapons agreements, no oversight committees, nor any kind of regulation whatsoever.
As is popular amongst leftist libtards, she shows her contempt for the Israel-India bond.
The friendly collaboration between NSO and India appears to have begun in Israel in 2017, during what the Indian media called the Modi-Netanyahu “bromance”. It was around then that phone numbers in India began to appear on the list.
It’s ludicrous why she is concerned about the increase in the budget for India’s National Security Council. Above all, she looks more concerned as the amount allocated to cybersecurity has increased. Why should she be concerned about the increased budget? Only a Chinese agent or Pakistani agent should be worried about the increased budget. For her, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) is nothing but India’s draconian anti-terrorism law, just because thousands of anti-national people have been imprisoned without bail. She apparently sympathises with terrorists and rioters.
That same year the budget for India’s National Security Council increased ten-fold. Most of the increased amount was allocated to cybersecurity. In August 2019, soon after Modi won his second term as prime minister, India’s draconian anti-terrorism law, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), under which thousands have been imprisoned without bail, was expanded to include individuals, not just organisations.
Quite true to her nature, she comes to sympathise with 16 anti-national activists, lawyers, trade unionists, professors and intellectuals who have been jailed for years in the Bhima-Koregaon (BK) case. They are accused of conspiring to incite violence that, according to her, “took place between Dalits and privileged caste groups” on 1 January 2018, when tens of thousands of Dalits gathered to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima-Koregaon. According to her, Dalit soldiers fought with the British to defeat the Peshwas, a tyrannical Brahmin regime.
Showing her typical communist trait, it didn’t take her long to use the word “tyrannical” for Brahmins as communists have been doing it for decades and justified the planned riots against upper caste people on 1 January 2018. As is evident, some anti-national Dalits allied with British forces to defeat Indian Peshwas and commemorating such a sensitive day was bound to hurt the sentiments of nationalists. The 16 anti-national activists were hand in glove with the rioters and were planning a big nationwide riot by creating a rift between Dalits and upper caste Hindus. This is why taking an accelerated step the central government put the 16 people behind bars.
She is concerned about the leak of eight phone numbers out of the 16 BK accused, and the numbers of some of their close family members, have appeared on the leaked list. The question is why can't the government put their number on surveillance when they were found planning such a sinister act of breaking India on caste lines and attempting to burn the nation?
There are 16 activists, lawyers, trade unionists, professors and intellectuals, many of them Dalit, who have been jailed for years in what is known as the Bhima-Koregaon (BK) case. They are accused, outlandishly, of conspiring to incite violence that took place between Dalits and privileged caste groups on 1 January 2018, when tens of thousands of Dalits gathered to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima-Koregaon (in which Dalit soldiers fought with the British to defeat the Peshwas, a tyrannical Brahmin regime). The phone numbers of eight out of the 16 BK accused, and the numbers of some of their close family members, have appeared on the leaked list.
She says leftist libtards like Arundhati Roy have become “scholars of the sinister lengths to which Modi’s government will go to entrap those it considers enemies”. Had that been the case Arundhati Roy would be counting the rods of prison cells for demonising Modi during Godhra riots in international media. The extent of lies that she had spread would have her imprisoned for her entire life but Modi is not a hate monger like her. According to her, Modi tried to frame two BK accused, Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling, by getting their computers hacked and “incriminating documents that had been placed in hidden folders on their hard drives”. She ludicrously says that Modi was trying to get himself killed. She could be anything but sane, only a woman out of her mind could say something like this.
Over the years some of us have become scholars of the sinister lengths to which Modi’s government will go to entrap those it considers enemies – and it’s more than simply surveillance. The Washington Post recently published the findings of a report by Arsenal Consulting, a digital forensics firm in Massachusetts, that examined electronic copies of the computers belonging to two of the BK accused, Rona Wilson and Surendra Gadling. Investigators found that both their computers had been infiltrated by an unidentified hacker, and incriminating documents had been placed in hidden folders on their hard drives. Among them, for some added frisson, was a ludicrous letter outlining a corny plot to kill Modi.
After this, she questions India’s judiciary and mainstream press for not favouring her as if they are her puppets. She says that the Modi government tried to cover something that has nothing to do with him. She laments about the death of Naxalite Jesuit priest, Father Stan Swamy who was arrested before his role in a plotted riots. He was also involved in the conversions of poor tribals in Jharkhand. This is why communists like Arundhati Roy are making hue and cry over his death as they have always been hand in glove with Christian missionaries.
The grave implications of the Arsenal report have not stirred India’s judiciary or its mainstream press to act in the cause of justice. Quite the contrary. While they worked hard to cover it up and contain the possible fallout of the report, one of the BK accused, an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, Father Stan Swamy, a man who had spent decades of his life in the state of Jharkhand working among forest-dwelling tribespeople fighting against corporate takeover of their homelands, died an excruciating death after being infected with coronavirus in prison. At the time of his arrest he had Parkinson’s disease as well as cancer.
Surveillance has always been a part of intelligence agencies and there’s nothing wrong with that. Governments get intels only after surveillance on suspected terrorists and anti-national activities. People like Arundhati Roy are nothing but vultures who make an uproar when governments fail to provide intel before a terror activity like Pathankot or Uri attack. But when the government does everything possible to safeguard the country, communists start lamenting about privacy.
Illegal surveillance through mobile phones isn’t new in India. Every Kashmiri knows that. Most Indian activists do, too. However, for us to cede to governments and corporations the legal right to invade and take over our phones is to voluntarily submit ourselves to being violated.
Why is she obsessed with privacy? What is there in her phone that she is afraid to reveal in case there is spying? Has it anything to do with Pakistani or Chinese contacts or any anti-India forces? If not then why must she be so worried about privacy.
In other words, we are headed towards being governed by states that know everything there is to know about people, and about which people know less and less. That asymmetry can only lead in one direction. Malignancy. And the end of democracy.
Finally, she reveals her hidden agenda of dislodging the Modi regime.
We must dislodge the regimes that are deploying it against us. We must do everything we can to prise open their grip on the levers of power, everything we can to mend all that they have broken, and take back all they have stolen.
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