> People like Roy would do well to stick to their democratic knitting (in her
> case, writing things that provoke Indians to take themselves seriously as
> modern people) and stop this irresponsible talk about chucking the whole
> system.
What century do you think this is? The age of nation-states and nationalism is gone for good, though national cultures and identities will linger on for awhile, sort of like city-states. We're in the multinational era now, there are 6 billion of us on a mighty small planet, and we have to start figuring out what multinational democracy might look like. Roy's meditations on the Narmada struggles, on globalization and solidarity, are meant to ask these sorts of questions.
-- DRR