5/9/2023 0 Comments War Talk by Arundhati Roy![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We now that some of the main military occupations in the world today are actually administered by democracies: Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir.īut what I think is beginning to be very clear now is that we see now that democracy is sort of fused to the free market, or to the idea of the free market. But as we know now, because of the way the global economy is linked, countries are not - you know, the political systems in countries are also linked, so democracies are linked to dictatorships and military occupations and so on. And I think my book - in my book, I discuss it in some detail in terms of what’s happening to India. An adapted introduction to the book is posted at, called “What Have We Done to Democracy?” Arundhati Roy joins us now from New Delhi, India, on the country’s biggest national holiday of the year.Īrundhati, we welcome you to Democracy Now! And as you listen to this report from the streets of G-20 by our producer Steve Martinez, talk about globalization and what has happened to democracy.ĪRUNDHATI ROY: Well, that’s a huge subject, Amy. She has a new book it’s called Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. Her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize in 1997. AMY GOODMAN: We turn to a woman the New York Times calls India’s most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence, Arundhati Roy, world-renowned Indian author and global justice activist. ![]()
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