> The government [of India] instructed YouTube and Twitter to delete all links and uploads. Those sterling defenders of free speech hurried to comply. Some of my Muslim friends were baffled. “Why does he want to ban it? The Gujarat massacre has always helped him. And we’re in an election year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/18/narendra-modi-hindu-nationalism-india-gautam-adani
#India #YouTube #Twitter #Censorship #GujaratMassacre #ArundatiRoy on #TheModiQuestion #BBCFilm and #InternationalCorruption

> The government [of India] instructed YouTube and Twitter to delete all links and uploads. Those sterling defenders of free speech hurried to comply. Some of my Muslim friends were baffled. “Why does he want to ban it? The Gujarat massacre has always helped him. And we’re in an election year.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/18/narendra-modi-hindu-nationalism-india-gautam-adani
#India #YouTube #Twitter #Censorship #GujaratMassacre #ArundatiRoy on #TheModiQuestion #BBCFilm and #InternationalCorruption

> Perhaps AI can do better surgery than surgeons, write better poetry than poets and better novels than novelists. But what it does is make the human population almost surplus: it makes it unnecessary. One argument is that it will be the end of work and the beginning of play; that people can be looked after. But people could be looked after now, as we know there’s enough surplus to do that, and it doesn’t happen.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/17/arundhati-roy-interview-you-ask-the-questions-the-point-of-the-writer-is-to-be-unpopular
#ArundatiRoy on #AI in 2018

> .. Other kinds of dreams. Dreams in which failure is feasible. Honorable. Sometimes even worth striving for. Worlds in which recognition is not the only barometer of brilliance or human worth. There are plenty of warriors that I know and love, people far more valuable than myself, who go to war each day, knowing in advance that they will fail.
https://lannan.org/events/arundhati-roy-with-howard-zinn
https://lannan.org/images/events/arundhati-roy-020918-trans-conv.pdf
#ArundatiRoy on #failure and priorities, not a shallow #StatusSeeker