Our battle for love must be militantly waged – and beautifully won: Arundhati Roy
The text of Arundhati Roy’s speech at the Elgar Parishad 2021, Pune on January 30.
By News Desk| Published: 31st January 2021 11:05 am IST
Courtesy "Muslim Mirror"
By Arundhati Roy
I thank the organisers of the 2021 Elgar Parishad for inviting me to speak at this forum to mark what would have been Rohit Vemula’s 32nd birthday and the 1818 victory of the battle of Bhima Koregaon. Not far from here, Mahar troops fighting in the British Army defeated the Peshwa King Bajirao II under whom Mahars and other Dalit castes were cruelly persecuted and ritually debased in indescribable ways.