I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
Arundhati RoyI hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the obscene amassing of wealth of US corporations is part of the same system of the exclusion and war that is being waged by these corporations in places like India, Africa and the Middle East.
Arundhati RoyMany people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.
Arundhati RoyFascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.
Arundhati Roy