In a country where one can be arrested for writing a book because it offends the sentiments of religious devotees or for criticizing the judiciary this interview with Arundati Roy addresses sham democracy in India
One has to confront Arundati one by one on the issues she raises for social justice, but they are wide ranging and concern Maoist in Orissa, armed occupation in Kashmir, the ever latent potential for genocide couched within Hindu or Islamic fundamentalist movements or even more to the point, the model of Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism for ethnic cleansing that is being adapted by the Home Minister (and former Enron lawyer) and India's new neo-liberal elite, its global corporations to move 85% of the population from the villages and countryside into mega-city slums, appropriating the lands of indigenous peoples, to harvest for themselves India's last remaining natural mineral resources, (bauxite etc) .....