DN! Arundhati Roy (1\4) on the Human Costs of India's Economic Growth

Author Arundhati Roy on the Human Costs of India's Economic Growth, the View of Obama from New Delhi, and Escalating US Attacks in Af-Pak

Were joined from the Indian capital of New Delhi by the Booker Prize-winning novelist, political essayist and global justice activist Arundhati Roy. Her books include the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things and her latest essay collection, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. We speak to Roy about Indias conflict with Maoist rebels, the occupation of Kashmir, ongoing Indian-Pakistani tensions, Obamas war in Af-Pak, and more.

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[qwertyui66771]

@thefetishkingfarts Well i used the best appropriate word.The people sometime tell themselves as left liberal but their views as like kill all the corporate and put the red flag in red fort.Then leave whole country under these hippies.These people only criticize the system but they have a single solution for all the problem.Thats y i call them "communist piece of shit".One more thing,these people are not liberal,definitely.

[thefetishkingfarts]

@qwertyui66771 Opposition to capitalism isnt communism. Just because ur dictionary includes just these 2 words, plz dont color system with that crude taxonomy

[qwertyui66771]

haha communist piece of shit.

[Zeno1999]

@pistachioguy < Being Taoist and follower of SDharma, I've no problem at all dealing with good or evil. These are just reference points. However, deciding others fate is playing God which I don't do.

Pompous ? You being one. I would not live my life any other way. Lies ? All is justified, even Nazis justified their acts. The one who judges decides who and what is wrong.

[pistachioguy]

@Zeno1999 - Haha! This last thing say before I leave: without reading a word in Sanskrit (unlike others), you pompously invoke "Sanatana Dharma"; without correctly grasping the intricacies of "the Republic's" Guardian State or "the Good", you compare yourself with the Gadfly. Without grasping a straw of what the Masters Lao and Chuang Tzu said on the Tao, you claim to be in communion with it.

Tell me, how many more li(e)s must you fly?

Hemlock? Insecticide would be in keeping with your status.

[Zeno1999]

@pistachioguy < Problem with logic is, it is only good for designing computer hardware/software. Any meaningful human environment design require enlightened minds which takes into account cycles of nature and engineering principles. Retrogressive or clueless ? Hardly that. May be too progressive for you. Go count your money.

[Zeno1999]

@pistachioguy < Victims of one faction always turn to another. British brutality turned many Punjabis to get their ammo from Russians so the CPI. Many of these so called "terrorists" have same story, I guess they made their choice seeking justice on their own like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Bose etc did.

Like those massacred in Delhi in 1984, still seeking justice, I'm sure it'll take one victim to get justice for all, someday, it may happen. Now send me a drink of hemlock, for saying the truth.

[Zeno1999]

@pistachioguy < You gave Ms. Roy every slur and nothing left for me ! I'm happy communing with the squirrels and the Tao.

[pistachioguy]

@Zeno1999 - On the other hand, I have a pretty good idea by now, which part of YOUR enfeebled anatomy the size of the pistachio nut most closely resembles.

However modesty and decency preclude me from mentioning it.

Now let me go and count my money, and enjoy my properties, wealth, and comforts in my well equipped house that gives me long-lasting happiness and prosperity, and you can go talk to the squirrels outside your tent.

[pistachioguy]

@Zeno1999 - We have no need to blindly ape the US - the Indian people, the democratically elected government, and our Armed Forces will take the appropriate steps to combat militancy and insurgency, as we have in the past.

You are correct that this conversation is a waste of time - mine. Mostly because you are utterly bankrupt of reason and logic, and your views all sound like a shoddy, poorly conceived student radical movement manifesto.

So I will not waste my time with you any further.