While leaders from the G-20 nations met in Pittsburgh this weekend to further pave the road to globalization, Michelle Obama shared the arts with her fellow spouses, and protesters tried to interrupt the meeting, one artist quietly and clearly detailed the relationship between free markets, democracy, genocide, and middle-class consumerism.
If you only know Arundhati Roy through her Booker Prize winning novel “The God of Small Things” then you only know half her talent. She is a remarkable commentator on the subjugation of people in the name of progress. The US occupation of Iraq with 150,000 soldiers is nothing compared to India’s 700,000 soldiers in Kashmir, its own territory. You can watch the interview below or read the transcript here to find out what is happening in the world’s largest democracy from the perspective of its most activist artist.