Mon 11.14.11 | Arundhati Roy on Naxals, OWS

Arundhati Roy, Walking with the Comrades Penguin, 2011

 

 

 

 

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There is a war going on in the tribal heartland of central and eastern India between the Naxalite Maoists and the Indian state, in which -- Arundhati Roy believes -- much is at stake. The award-winning writer  discusses her time accompanying a group of Maoists in the forests, and the brutal counterinsurgency effort mounted against them by the Indian government. She also talks about the Occupy Wall Street movement and anticapitalism.
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