I am glad to see she speaks honestly about India's inequalities. It is a very hierarchical society and not a roll model for any other country. That India is described as a becon for the 21st century is misguided.

Bush is an idiot. Anybody outside the US can see that. She is right that anger against the US is at an all-time high. I was just in Athens. The idiotic preppy Americans wandering the streets there were proof positive that Americans have yet to register the extent of the anger and start to behave differently.

I look forward to her thoughts in the future.

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You are being visited by someone wonderous and in it's purest form...take note!!!!!

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The new, corporate, definition of labor in a nut-shell. This 'perfect' symbol of globalization (the call-center) is re-defining labor to mean that it's your entire person that is the labor ('human capital'), and that has no rights in an absolute sense. An interesting study would be to investigate this transformation of the human being into software. This is their great promise! One thing, the pharmaceutical industry is all for it. The psychiatrists are all for it. The private security firms are all for it. I agree that Mr Friedman and all those enthusiasts of such jobs ought to work there for a few years. Then they may write slightly different 'op-eds' about these great strides they hypocritically call progress.

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It takes someone as gifted and compassionate as Arundhati Roy to tell us what we need to know about our own country. Her voice is compelling enough that the main
stream media will actually cover her once in a while.

Read her book, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire. The thesis is sobering: All governments are corrupt. The media and businesses own them and do their bidding through them. Public education follows in step. We can expect nothing more. The only way to effect change is through global boycotts that can dent a multinational corporation's bottom line. Hopefully the internet will help us organize them more effectively.

The sad thing is that it's everybody's dream in India to move to the US. Their culturally and spiritually incomparable country of soulful people is being decimated by our materialism.

Arundhati Roy speaks the truth beautifully, brilliantly, and without fear. May we strive to emulate her.

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India and the USA have a lot in common: fake elections giving fake results, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, the leaders stage-managing mass murder in warfare and stage-managed mass media all contrived to benefit the rich and dissing the poor. No wonder the India/USA leaders get along so well: it's because both nations are run by criminals at the top of the governments. Impeach or otherwise get rid of all these illegitimate and savage leaders.

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Have you wondered why things are the way they are? I have thought about it a lot and conculded that it is because of our collective apathy. We have allowed those who we call crooks to hijack our governments. If you did not want Bush to be elected again, did you really do all you could to make it happen? Did you take time off your busy schedule and go campaigning against him in places he was strong? Why is it that we, who think that we know better, have no power? It is because we only talk and do little. Money is power. If those of us who are business leaders spent 20 to 30% of our working hours doing something that is of no direct personal benefit to us, things would be very different indeed. Roy is doing great work. We should strive to do more than her. And we must start today.

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"But now it's happening in India, and the rhetoric of democracies in place, because they have learned how to hollow out democracy and make it lose meaning. All it means, it seems, is elections, where whoever you vote for, they are going to do the same thing."

Sounds very familiar, huh? A lot like the US.

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Truly an wonderful person. She has a the view of the big picture, knows where we've been on a large scale and can see where the world is going. She is a true visionary that understands the mistakes of history to try to make a positive impact on the future.

Predatory national and corporate practices are killing us all, inside as well as outside. A cleansing of the mind against intolerance , predatory practices and a patriarchal system predicated on power is necessary for us so that we all can speak to one another as human beings.

Thanks to Alternet for publishing a person that is a breath of fresh air and a has a good handle on a world view.

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"We have such a litany of the history of incineration when you embrace the government of the United States."

And these aren't the first Indians to discover this truth about this Christian nation. I would just advise them not to sign any treaties with us or accept any blankets from the American people either unless they've been autoclaved sterile. You fuck with the bull, be prepared to take the horn.

"He visited Gandhi's grave, and first his dogs visited Gandhi's grave. Then, you know, Gandhians were, like, wanting to purify it. And I said, 'Look, I don't mind the dogs. I mind Bush much [more] than the dogs.' "

Me too. This speaks for itself. The lesson for Hindus? Some life is not only not precious to anyone and would not be missed. Yes, I'm talking about insects and parasitic life forms, but not the innocent ones in the ground, rather, those of the Republican persuasion.

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Arundhati has the clearest vision since I don't know who. She, moreso than any thinker and political commentator just seems to get it, to see through the foggy bullshit of spin, of corruption, of misspeak and administration lies. The fact that she does, and the fact that she is unapologetically vocal and committed when expressing these crystalline views (example- the Charlie Rose segment, above) should be an example to all of us: hold fast to your convictions. Find out exactly which side you ought to be on (hint: there will most usually be a gun pointed in that direction) and fight for it, for justice without violence, for the rights of all.

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"You pick your side, and then you fight, you know? But in a country like India, I'm not seeing that many radical positions taken by writers or poets or artists, you know? It's all the seduction of the market that has shut them up like a good medieval beheading never could."

This is a very insightful comment. Back in the 60's, they say that pop music was a big catalyst for social change - everyone from the Doors (Unknown Soldier, Peace Frog, etc.) to the folkies (all we are saying, is give peace a chance...) was anti-war. Now pop music has been completely absorbed into the corporate system, homogenized, and endless regurgitated - political protest is not the corporate mantra. Underground hip-hop and punk music has replaced that role - but can these artists get airplay, promotion, etc. by the corporate music system?

Take the hip-hop group, Dead Prez. Will these lyrics get played on Clear Channel?

"You can't fool all the people all of the time
But if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind
Tell me who's got control of your mind? your world view?
Is it the news or the movie you're taking your girl to? (uh)
Know what i'm sayin cause Uncle Sam got a plan
If you examine what they tellin us then you will understand
What they plantin in the seeds of the next generation
Feeding our children miseducation
No one knows if there's UFO's or any life on mars
Or what they do when they up in the stars
Because i don't believe a word of what the president said
He filling our head with lies got us hypnotised
When he be speaking in cold words about crime and poverty
Drugs, welfare, prisons, guns and robbery
It really means us, there's no excuse for the slander
But what's good for the goose, is still good for the gander
See...

Chorus:
I don't believe Bob Marley died from cancer
31 years ago i woulda been a panther
They killed Huey cause they knew he had the answer
The views that you see in the news is propaganda"

Not likely!

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Please check out this cartoon from the UK's Guardian newspaper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/
0,,1720563,00.html

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My heart goes out to Roy for her courage to speak out on India's inequalities, which are getting worse by the day. News blackout of the wave of governmental violence exacerbates the dilemma.
Usually most news about India is generally about "Bollywood" and outsourcing of jobs to Bangalore, etc. and the tension in Kashmir-Dodge City with skiing.
Thomas Friedman obviously only saw (and reported) on what he WANTED to see. That is lousy journalism. Therefore, he Potemkinized his reports. It's a case of "parachute journalism"- being a place at short length of time to report on an topic without fully grasping the larger picture of the assignment. Ergo he's misleading his readers.
Inidia has a long way to go to solve its pressing problems as we do in the United States. To Indians, don't become like us, ruled by a bunch of right-wing fanatics running roughshod over our civil liberties and by the invasion of big-box retail outlets like Wal-Mart.
Your traditions are being threatened. Resist being drawn into the American sphere of influence, although it might be too late.
You were dominated by the British; now you're about to be dominated by the United States. Heaven help India.

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This is the type of article I would like to see more of. If I am a more or less loyal reader of yours, it is because once in a great while, you publish something really worth reading, like this. I know it's hard to find great material every single day, but this interview with Arundhati Roy proves that there are intelligent, articulate, inspiring people with a progressive vision who are deeply committed to something beyond narcissistic self-promotion. Can we hear more from them, please?

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It is true and at the same time ironic that very few people will raise issues related to dalits, poors, womans and farmers in India like Roy. Indians are hardwired in their brain about castes (one human humiliate the other in the name of caste, and it is multi tiered), myths and religious stupidity. For more details, I believe you will be interested to know.

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Speaking of Arundhati, has anyone seen "We"? It's a great documentary featuring one of her wonderful speeches. I love it!

You can download it for free at this site: Weroy.org

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I think the real reason Charlie Rose decided not to broadcast that interview is that Arundhati unwittingly touched the Red Button of American politics : Israel's nuclear weapons. It is a taboo to say or admit that Israel possesses nuclear weapons. That's why he was annoyed at Arundhati , that she had the nerve to mention it. If a politician mentions that Israel has nuclear weapons, the Israeli lobby will use its money to defeat the politician by giving money to his opponent; and if a writer talks about Israeli nuclear weapons, then the lobby will work to silence him/her.

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While I appreciate that people have good impression on A.Roy, one must also see how far her visions are forward looking about India, society and the problems of India and the world. On Sept 29th, two woman Sulekaha and her daughter Priyanka (age 17) were attacked by casteistic animal mobs of Kherlanji, a village in Maharastra, close to the most famous Mumbai, India).
The mob, in a premediated plan with the help of village officials, village cops (police) and ruling state goverments and police higher officials ransaked the house, dragged two womans out of their dearly homes, chained them in a bullock cart, dragged them around the village, raped repeatedly by several dozens of men, while the woman in the village were watching, and finaly killed both the woman, two of the sons of Suleka and Mr.Bhotmange (Bhotmange escaped and ran away before the mob could attack him, he was hiding and witnessed the gruesome animal attack) were also murderd brutally and thrown into the nearby canal.

While such a inhumane and unimaginable cruelty and atrocity was done to this Bhotmange family, only the reason is they were dalits/Ambedkarite buddhists (according to this f....kg hindu/varna stupidity, they are some low-caste, so the upper castes could not tolerate their educational well off, their courage and rights to own land and live progressively, the whole village turned against them).

None of these so called Roys, or Arundati's came forward even to say a word about even almost three months after this incident happend, as the entire globe is condemning and raising voice against such crimes and brutality, none of these so called Roy and woman like her made any voice...........

and, we portray this woman as someone with vision, how can any of you who share a great respect to Roy will feel about her silence or ignorance and accepting such heinous crimes affilicted to her own woman folks in India.

What a pity that these woman become something in the world's eye, let alone India's eye. What kind of respect she deserves?.

The Saint

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also visit: atrocitynews.wordpress.com
to learn more about Kherlanji Massacre


(they call themselves as Upper caste OBC, this fu...ing upper caste or caste itself is a filthy anti-social activity in India that is going on for centuries).

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