Damning truths in soft voice

The hounding of Arundhati Roy may well turn out to be one more of those own-goals our rulers are growing to be famous for.

- ANUIA CHAUHANI

Perhaps, the thinking is that it will make them look 'stronger'-like they haven't lost their iron grip on the minds of this nation and are still very much in control of what we read, think, eat, worship or whom we love.

But cracking down on the OG rebel who taught us all that it is sometimes okay to 'break the love laws, the laws that lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much' is perhaps not a good idea. All it may end up doing is make Roy, 62, relevant to the free-thinkers amongst Gen Z who, though familiar with the competent, well-researched, but decidedly non-libidinous lectures of Haryanvi engineer Dhruv Rathee, remain innocently unexposed to powerful seditious prose like 'the carpenter's hands lifted her hips and an untouchable tongue touched the inner-most part of her.