[lbo-talk] Roy on Indian election

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 14 12:14:42 PDT 2004


uvj at vsnl.com wrote:


>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> How does Roy's political writing play in India?
>
>Roy doesn't have much political influence in India.

Could she be the activist quoted anonymously in today's FT?


>"Today - for the first and last time - I am grateful so much of
>India is illiterate," said a prominent social activist who did not
>want her name published. "It was the literate middle classes that
>fell victim to the BJP's propaganda. And it is the poor who have
>corrected their misperceptions."



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