‘Spineless, gutless’: Arundhati Roy slams Indian Government for not condemning U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran

Arundhati Roy criticizes the Indian government’s complicity in U.S.-Israel aggression and calls for a stand against imperialism.

Acclaimed writer Arudhati Roy said she is ashamed of “how gutless and spineless our government has been”, in reference to India’s response to the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran. Speaking at a book-related event in Delhi, Ms. Roy said Iran is standing up to them while India cowers.

“Long ago, we were a poor country of very poor people. But we had pride and dignity. Today we are a rich country with very poor, unemployed people who are fed on a diet of hatred, poison and falsehoods instead of real food. We have lost pride, dignity and courage, except in our movies,” she said.

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“What sort of people are we whose elected government cannot stand up and condemn the U.S. when it kidnaps and assassinates Heads of State of other countries,” she asked.

“What does it mean for our Prime Minister to have travelled to Israel and embraced Benjamin Netanyahu just days before he attacked Iran? For our government to sign a grovelling trade deal with the U.S. that literally sells our farmers and textile industry down the river, only days before the U.S. Supreme Court declared Mr. Trump’s tariffs illegal; for us to now be given ‘permission’ to buy oil from Russia. What else do we need permission for? To go to the bathroom? To take a day off work? To visit our mothers?” the author further asked.

Ms. Roy said every day U.S. politicians, including Donald Trump, “mock and demean us publicly, and our Prime Minister laughs his famous, vacuous laugh and hugs on”.