Instant Mix Imperial Democracy
Speech given by Arundhati Roy at the Riverside Chruch in New York City. May 2003.
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Arundhati Roy reads from her essay on Maoists in India
The Booker prize-winning author and activist gains rare access to the tribal people and Maoist guerrillas who - from their camps deep in the Dandakaranya forest - have taken up arms against the Indian state
Hope and Internal Security Threats
Arundhati Roy talks about hope, privilege, and why we must all become internal security threats.
Rekindling the Radical Imagination
::Rekindling the Radical Imagination - Arundhati Roy Chomsky, March 21, 2010 on Vimeo
Fault Lines - Arundhati Roy
Fault Lines presenter Avi Lewis sits down for a one-on-one interview with author and activist, Arundhati Roy.
interview, Australia - global 'rich vs poor' divide despite environmental future chaos
rich vs poor
Indian writer Arundhati Roy has produced just one novel - The God of Small Things in 1997, which won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. In the twelve years since, Roy has allowed herself to be distracted by domestic politics and environmental activism, in a country riddled with social and political problems as a counterpoint to its dramatic economic growth rates. Her writing has been confined to political essays the latest of which, decrying a decline in Indian democracy, has just been published......
.....far from working as a system of checks and balances, the institutions of democracy, the judiciary, the police, the free press and the electoral system quite often do the opposite.
So is the democratic model in danger of hollowing itself out as the pressures of a growing middle class outstrip the desire to protect all the people?
KERRY OBRIEN: You say in the book that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximising profit. But where you see maximising profits, others would see a necessary creation of wealth from which the majority of Indians will ultimately benefit; With jobs, education, health and so on. Whats the alternative to this creation of wealth as the bedrock of Indias future?
ARUNDHATI ROY: Of course when I said that I didnt just mean about India, I meant democracy and the free market effused as an idea all over the world..... and I completely contest this idea of the creation of wealth, because you equally could look at it as an absolute destruction of wealth depending on how you define wealth because if youre going to create wealth out of destroying rivers, out of destroying forests and you know mountain systems, youre actually so short sighted and youre actually taking people away from their resources, and concentrating this wealth in the hands of a very few and pretending that at some later point youre going to redistribute it, that point never comes, it never happens .....so in fact not just India but all over the world we are seeing this huge divide between the rich and the poor and one whole sort of majority, the majority of the worlds poor are sliding into chaos and a chaos that is exacerbated by a kind of ecological collapse, in India not a single river runs any more to the sea.....
..... Australia does have a history of racism that all of us are aware of, but so does India. And once again, these are not things the Indian press will talk about so the racist attacks on Indian students were horrifying and as horrifying as middle, as you know upper caste and middle caste attacks, brutal attacks on dalits in India.....
Indian writer Arundhati Roy has produced just one novel - The God of Small Things in 1997, which won the Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. In the twelve years since, Roy has allowed herself to be distracted by domestic politics and environmental activism, in a country riddled with social and political problems as a counterpoint to its dramatic economic growth rates. Her writing has been confined to political essays the latest of which, decrying a decline in Indian democracy, has just been published......
.....far from working as a system of checks and balances, the institutions of democracy, the judiciary, the police, the free press and the electoral system quite often do the opposite.
So is the democratic model in danger of hollowing itself out as the pressures of a growing middle class outstrip the desire to protect all the people?
KERRY OBRIEN: You say in the book that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximising profit. But where you see maximising profits, others would see a necessary creation of wealth from which the majority of Indians will ultimately benefit; With jobs, education, health and so on. Whats the alternative to this creation of wealth as the bedrock of Indias future?
ARUNDHATI ROY: Of course when I said that I didnt just mean about India, I meant democracy and the free market effused as an idea all over the world..... and I completely contest this idea of the creation of wealth, because you equally could look at it as an absolute destruction of wealth depending on how you define wealth because if youre going to create wealth out of destroying rivers, out of destroying forests and you know mountain systems, youre actually so short sighted and youre actually taking people away from their resources, and concentrating this wealth in the hands of a very few and pretending that at some later point youre going to redistribute it, that point never comes, it never happens .....so in fact not just India but all over the world we are seeing this huge divide between the rich and the poor and one whole sort of majority, the majority of the worlds poor are sliding into chaos and a chaos that is exacerbated by a kind of ecological collapse, in India not a single river runs any more to the sea.....
..... Australia does have a history of racism that all of us are aware of, but so does India. And once again, these are not things the Indian press will talk about so the racist attacks on Indian students were horrifying and as horrifying as middle, as you know upper caste and middle caste attacks, brutal attacks on dalits in India.....
World Bank Tribunal Jury Findings
Arundhati Roy's initial findings of the Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India that took place in Delhi at the end of September 2007.
Arundhati Roy Quote: "To love, to be loved....."
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - Arundhati Roy
Talk - Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian - Seattle 2004
Arundhati Roy and David Barsamian speaking at Town Hall Seattle August 17, 2004
Devil's Advocate :: 1-5 :: Arundhati Roy :: CNN IBN
Devil's Advocate :: 1-5 :: Arundhati Roy :: CNN IBN
'Indian Democracy In A State Of Emergency'
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Arundhati Roy :: Corporate Globalization
Arundhati Roy :: Corporate Globalization
Arundhati Roy speaks on war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest in her famous "Come September speech". The full video can be viewed on Google video by searching for "Arundhati Roy"
Corporate Globalization:
Fifty-one of the world's top 100 economies are corporations.
WalMart is bigger than Indonesia.
General Motors is roughly the same size as Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary combined.
Ninety-nine of the 100 largest transnational corporations are from the industrialized countries.
Corporate Globalization:
Fifty-one of the world's top 100 economies are corporations.
WalMart is bigger than Indonesia.
General Motors is roughly the same size as Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary combined.
Ninety-nine of the 100 largest transnational corporations are from the industrialized countries.
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