Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to escape, to get out, to never have to marry somebody there. Of course, they were not dying to marry me. I was the worst thing a girl could be: thin, black, and clever.

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are being killed and imprisoned in their thousands. Theirs is a battle of the imagination, a battle for the redefinition of the meaning of civilisation, of the meaning of happiness, of the meaning of fulfilment.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.