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VIEWS ON ARUNDATHI ROY'S ESSAY 'THE ALGEBRA OF INFINITE JUSTICE'

"The Algebra of Infinite Justice" is a collection of Roy's political writings in which she addresses her angst about terrorism,globalisation,nuclear disarmament,global capitalism and a formidable defence of her right to express her views.

In my opinion,India is more of a civilisation than a nation.But if we take the dictionary meaning of civilisation,"it is those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behaviour or a high level of development.It is "so called advanced" contrast to the primitive cultures as savages or barbarians."So here we can say that even though India is rich with its culture and tradition,in the light of civilisation India is the most uncivilised of all, which makes India an irony in itself.We can see that people are creating boundaries in the name of caste,religion,state and what not.Nowadays we fight even for the natural resources and we tend to forget that nature belongs to all and all have the right to live.It is nobody's private property.The current Cauvery water issue really portrays how barbarian we "so-called civilised" Indians are.I don't think the humans treat animals and the other living creatures on the earth by asserting their superiority on them,is in anyway a sign of civilised behaviour. Even in Arundathi Roy's essay she talks about the construction of dams and the testing of nuclear weapons.It is pity to note that even the nuclear testing was done in Pokhran in 1998 which caused a huge mass destruction.She even throws light on the matter that instead of seeing each other as humans,we see ourselves as Hindus and Muslims,we fight for everything (communal riots).Roy mentions that all these "seek to limit, reduce, define, dismember and desecrate the memory of what we were,our understanding of what we are and our dreams of who we wan t to be."