by Arundhati Roy ... I directed attention to the people of Kalinganagar and Jagatsinghpur, the absolutely peaceful protests led by, and would still besieged, would be surrounded by hundreds of armed policemen, with lathis (long stick of the police) beaten and shot at. I said that local people have been thinking long and hard before they decided that they should take the strategy of resistance. I spoke of could draw like the people who deeply lived in villages in the forest, not on Ghandian forms of protest, because the peaceful satyagraha would be a form of political theater, to be effective, a sympathetic audience needed, the they did not have. I asked how people who were already starving, could go on hunger strike ...
http://www.hintergrund.de/20100625966/hintergrund/medien/indien-im-ausnahmezustand.html
Arundhati Roy, known as the author of the rather irritating book "The God of Small Things", comments on false assumptions and allegations in the press.
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what Arundhati Roy describes, it is in our past. These life forms are eliminated with us already.
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