Arundhati Roy on the Leonard Lopate Show (Audio prog)

Arundhati Roy discusses the Maoist insurgency in India and the fight against corporations looking to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands. In Walking with the Comrades, Roy takes readers to the unseen front lines of this ongoing battle, chronicling her months spent living with the rebel guerillas in the forests. In documenting their local struggles, Roy addresses the larger question of whether global capitalism will tolerate any societies existing outside of its control.

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[rakshan]

The Indian govt and Media continually mis-use the word "Maoist", because it is a dirty word, and immediately reminds most Indians (all blindly patriotic), of the Indo-China war and the continued uneasiness between the two countries. It gets worse because the US govt, in its foreign policy play, has decided to pit these two countries against each other as emerging superpowers. Globalization was forced upon India in the 90s, and barely a handful Indians know this or care about it.