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India, with its burgeoning population of 1 billion, is an epicentre of opposition to US-led globalisation. When it comes to international commerce the US plays hardball. One of its trade officials threatened to break open India's markets with a crowbar if it did not accede to American demands. Indians have been through this before with the East India Company and British colonisation. The sahibs, with their laptops, cell phones and power plays, are back. In India and elsewhere, the question arises about what role writers should play in society. Are they merely disengaged artists? Some like Thoreau, Orwell, Camus and Neruda felt the need to be politically active. Arundhati Roy is in that tradition.
Arundhati Roy is the celebrated author of The God of Small Things, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. The book has sold 6 million copies and has been translated into 40 languages. Her other books include The Cost of Living. The New York Times calls her, "India's most impassioned critic of globalisation and American influence."
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