Roy and Rage

Try this. Leave your prejudice about Arundati Roy outside your house for about fifteen minutes. That's how much perhaps it take to read this article. Briefly, just briefly, stop the thought about 'development' and 'India as emerging superpower' crap.

A few angry lines:

"The real problem is that the flagship of India’s miraculous ‘growth’ story has run aground. It came at a huge social and environmental cost."

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"The people who have taken to arms are not spending all their time watching (or performing for) TV, or reading the papers, or conducting SMS polls for the Moral Science question of the day: Is Violence Good or Bad? SMS your reply to.... They’re out there. They’re fighting. They believe they have the right to defend their homes and their land. They believe that they deserve justice."

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"All over the country, there’s unrest, there are protests by people refusing to give up their land and their access to resources, refusing to believe false promises any more. Suddenly, it’s beginning to look as though the 10 per cent growth rate and democracy are mutually incompatible."

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"There’s an MoU on every mountain, river and forest glade. We’re talking about social and environmental engineering on an unimaginable scale. And most of this is secret. It’s not in the public domain."

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