(ha! and the western left is in love with arundhati roy? with chomsky doing photo ops and blurbs for her?!)
look, i agree that shiva has her flourishes. i forwarded lewontin's critique of her book to this very list, IIRC, a few years ago.
now, i call upon you to address the rest of my post. i will respond 12:01am ;-).
--ravi