On Jun 5, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote:
> Nah, I think you're describing Vandana Shiva there. Arundhati is a celebrity in
> India as well, and I don't think there's anything particularly close to nature
> about her persona. I think her celebrity in the West is tangled with sublimated
> left/liberal postcolonial desire.
I'm describing the way people in the Pacifica orbit process her. Shiva too - though from what I've heard, she has no following in India. Re: Roy in India, Toor's essay is good on that. The "India shining" demographic swell with pride over her western celebrity, though of course they're troubled by her politics.
Doug