Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals, drug companies, non-governmental organisations. They can buy judges, journalists, politicians, publishing houses, television stations, bookshops and even activists. This kind of monopoly, this cross-ownership of businesses, has to stop.

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.

India is still flinching from a cultural insult, still looking for its identity.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened